You need the biggest most powerful blower available to blow large amounts of pine needles. like the big Redmax. I have an extremely powerful blower and if you ask me I could use even more power. Spend the extra $150. The expenditure will be insignificant over the life of the unit.

Orrr, you could use a rake, pine straw rakes easy, save some money and give your neighbors a break. I hate a blower and the idiot using one.

Excuse me. What's with the idiot comment? Perhaps you are on the wrong forum. Maybe you should go to name calling.com for more satisfaction. And take you rake with you.

A dealer may let you try your choices out. In fact that would be the dealer I would prefer, the one that will work to solve your problem. I don't have many pine needles so I don't have any insight as to how much power you would need to do this.

Would using a lawn mower with a bagger work to collect the needles?

I agree blowers are loud and annoying but less so than people with poor social skills ;).

Hah, What would you call someone that wants to blow pine straw, a leaf that has very little cross section, off a measly 1/2 acre. Your suggestion is the loudest most powerful. I seem to have drawn your ire by suggesting a more civilized option. I bet if you lived next door to him you would call him worse if he was disturbing you. By the way reading comprehension 101, I called no direct names, if you make the inference guess the shoe fits, eh?

Oh yeah, Have a nice day.

I hope you feel better now. You are correct about one thing. I am glad you are not my neighbor. Oh, about reading comprehension...I never mentioned the "loudest" blower. That was your words. Why not attack guys using units with bad mufflers at 6:00am. That's not me. I never intentionally make noise to annoy neighbors. In fact I'm all for quieter machines. I also like high performance machines that help get a job done faster and more efficiently. That's what outdoor power equipment is all about.

Yeah, hopefully the dealer will let me test them. That's probably my best bet.

Like I said, it's only about 4 times a year and I only have one neighbor, that could potentially get annoyed.

My lawn mower doesn't have enough suction and there's too many needles especially in the fall. Eventually I plan to invest in a rider so I can cut in front of the drainage ditch (increasing my lawn cutting area).

I tried raking last year and it wasn't that easy and very time consuming.