CRAFTSMAN V60 Cordless Leaf Blower (CMCBL760E1)

1.0 out of 5 stars

By brazos49 - Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019

Battery life is unacceptable

I was happy to get this blower because I was looking forward to being able to handle blower projects in the yard and on the roof/gutters without having to worry about dragging a cord around. We have a lot of oak trees in our yard and there's often a leaf blowing project that needs to be tackled. The day the blower arrived, my wife charged up the battery and started a project. In about 10 minutes the blower quit. Dead battery. I assumed we had gotten a defective battery, so I called customer service to discuss it. The lady I spoke with agreed and set up an order for a replacement battery to be sent. Due to issues with inventory or something else it took about a month and follow up phone calls for the replacement battery to arrive. Armed with the replacement battery, we charged it up and started a leaf blowing project in the yard. About ten minutes into the project the blower quit with a dead battery. Now I'm thinking maybe there's an issue with the blower or something else, so I called customer service again. The lady I spoke with agreed that there must be a problem, but wondered if it might be the charger (the charger lights seemed to indicate it was working OK). She put me on hold while she was going to reach out to a technician for some help. My call was dropped, she didn't call me back, so I called again and went through the issue with another rep. This lady also wanted to run the issue by a tech help person, so she put me on hold and did come back with some feedback from that effort. Her answer was that the battery is only designed to run the blower for about 10 minutes on high setting. This seemed unbelievable to me and I said so. She said that information should be in the user manual, but we couldn't find it there and I complained that it should be mentioned on the Amazon listing for the blower so you see it before ordering instead of what's actually there: "high performance 60V Battery Pack for long runtime". The customer service rep tried to blame the Amazon description on some seller they can't control that didn't properly describe the battery life. I pointed out to her that Craftsman had its own home page and descriptions on Amazon. She finally told me that the product listing on Lowe's website mentions an "Up to 11 Minutes per charge (High Speed)", as if it's up to the customer to seek out every listing of the product to understand the details. I asked her if that was what she was suggesting and she admitted that wasn't reasonable. She did say the battery life was a good bit longer if you use lower speed. So I suppose if I want my project to take a long time to finish, I can use the blower at a really low speed to preserve precious battery life. Here's the thing - we buy power tools to make our projects easier and quicker to complete. Not sure about you, but I don't have a lot of 10 minute projects for a power blower. And I need to use high speed to blow the leaves more effectively. So don't give me a 10 minute battery and don't describe it as a high performance battery. This is a battery they sell for $149 as I write this. You can do the math on how much it would cost you to have enough batteries to do your longer projects. I just find this design and this product description to be unacceptable and really worthy of zero stars.

5.0 out of 5 stars

By Cydney & Jason - Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2019

Good enough to elicit an eyeroll from the wife

My husband is obsessed with this thing and uses it often to clean up the yard, especially this time of year, when leaves and giant pine needles are covering the lawn. It's lightweight and he even uses it to "dust out" the garage occasionally. Be careful, this might start an addiction with battery operated CRAFSMAN yard tools. Since buying this blower, my husband couldn't stop with just that. He also bought the branch trimmer and the chain saw--all can be operated by the same battery system. Yaaaaaay. I think even his lawn mower is a part of this system.

5.0 out of 5 stars

By Mike B - Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019

Perfect blower for my 1/2 acre lot.

Perfect mix of power and portability. Bought a Ryobi first because I like their 18v tools but the blower wasn’t powerful enough. So I returned it and went with this one. Does everything I need it to do in my Yard for half the price and weight of a gas blower. Havnt had a battery issue, and it recharges fairly quick. Hopefully it holds up.

5.0 out of 5 stars

By K. Song - Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2020

Great blower, as long as you know what to expect

Have been using this for couple months, and I am really satisfied. It's much more powerful than my old Dewalt 20V one and makes my lawn work a lot easier. I think it could be better if it came with 5Ah battery for a bit higher price, but I cannot really complain about it considering the price. One thing to note is, blowers are battery hogs. So regardless of ANY battery powered blower, runtime is rather short at full power. If anybody expecting it to last hours at full power, then should look for a gas powered one. At 600CFM, almost any battery powered blower lasts about 5 min per Ah.

5.0 out of 5 stars

By Joshua - Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019

10 min battery life

Very impressive power for a battery powered blower. Almost as good as my gas one! Battery is about 10 minutes. It's enough time for me to do the front of my house. It has a quick charge too.

5.0 out of 5 stars

By Danno - Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2019

Light Weight, Good Blower

It had ample power to blow pine straw and leaves off the driveway & around the pool. It seems to work well better than Dewalt and others. The cost was less as well, so buy this, the battery adds weight to the blower bus about the same as other blowers. It's nice not to drag a cord behind you

4.0 out of 5 stars

By Phil N. - Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2019

Great tool, beware of leaves blocking airflow into the blower though

Awesome tool, just noticed I had to stop what I was doing multiple times to clear the leaves this thing sucks up into the tool blocking the air intake to the blower. Otherwise I can clear a 1/4 acre no problem. Heard some people had a hard time clearing a 1/4 acre in other reviews, I had no problem, even let my neighbor use it when I was done so he could do the same.

4.0 out of 5 stars

By Dave - Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2020

Powerful blower

My use of the blower is usually only five or 10 minutes at a time. So I can use the unit several times before recharging. It has lots of power and is pretty quiet compared to my corded electric blower. Many of the reviews imply that this is a two-speed blower. Mine is continuously variable and I suppose they all are but this was unexpected. I rarely need to use it at full power. 25-50% power seems to take care of dry leaves and pine straw with no problem. My only issue is that it has a hair trigger. It's hard to keep a continuous speed without using the trigger lock, which I do now most of the time. I kinda wish the trigger was designed differently, somehow.