How Switch It Up clears fall leaves off their RV campsite with BLOWZER

Vlogtober, day 15

Switch It Up is Todd and Sheila, full-time RVers who live in a custom SpaceCraft rig and are building Cypress Landing RV Park on Gantt Lake, Alabama. In October they post every day, and Day 15 is billed honestly as a maintenance day: no scenery, just the jobs that keep a big rig on the road.

Sheila has taken the Bronco in for an oil change, so Todd is alone at Hospitality Creek, a family campground in New Jersey, working through the honey-do list before a big travel day. The water softener needs regenerating, the wall decor has to be secured and the patio doors closed up. But before any of that, he stops at the picnic table.

Fall, trees and a lot of leaves

The table is covered in oak leaves, and so is everything else. The site sits under tall trees, which campers love until acorns hit the roof all night and leaves pile onto every step and ledge. Todd picks up a black case from the table, the BLOWZER X6 that came to Cypress Landing in a round of viewer and partner unboxings, and explains why he kept it out.

"I've been using this product because I love all the uses for it, especially when it comes to fall and we're underneath trees," he says. He admits that when the box arrived he wondered what he would ever use it for. Then he opened it and found the attachments.

Steps, table, truck bed, deck

The demo is handheld and unscripted. Todd walks to the rig's perforated metal entry steps, where leaves have collected on every tread, switches the X6 on and works from the top step down. The leaves lift off and the steps come up bare. He moves to the picnic table and clears the boards, then to the diamond-plate truck bed, where the leaves are still wet from the morning.

"So by reducing the nozzle size you can even get it faster," he says. Partway through he swaps to the longer, narrower nozzle and runs it along the truck's tailgate and the edge of the rig's slide-out deck, pointing out the small crevice nozzles meant for the gaps in a car. The X6 comes with five interchangeable nozzles.

He wraps up the segment with the line that explains the whole thing: "We're always blowing off picnic tables or benches or doing whatever." Later in the episode, packing up for the drive, he tells Sheila he'll use the blower to clear the leaves off the top deck before it's tied down.

Why it matters at a campsite

Leaves and debris are a daily chore for anyone who camps under trees. They track inside from the steps, stain picnic tables and collect on decks and in truck beds, and a broom is slow on perforated metal. A cordless blower that lives in a small case near the door makes the cleanup quick enough to do every morning and before every travel day.

Todd's routine is worth copying: steps first so nothing gets tracked in, then the table, then the truck and the deck, with the narrow nozzle for edges and seams.

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