Bought a Toro leafblower for next year. Already had the dealer come out and do an end of the year cleaning. Thought I'd give it a trial run because I don't want to be experimenting in the dead of winter. Surprisingly, I did get some ash out, not much but some. The suction was so strong on the high setting that my daughter couldn't open the door. I'm thinking that maybe it's not a good idea to run it at top setting...I must confess to some stupdiity here. I had forgotten I had sprayed some PAM on the inside of the stove. The leafblower pulled some pellet fines from somewhere, now they're stuck to the inside of the stove. I wiped most of them out, but I really didn't expect that. I have a P68 and I'm still nervous that I'm screwing something up with doing this. I'll let you know in the fall if it doesn't work!