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Leaf blowers should bee fucking outlawed. The most pointless and obnoxious tool in existence which pump vast amounts of pollution into the atmosphere. I genuinely am bothered less by the people doing burnouts and shooting off guns at like 2 am in my neighborhood (equally productive activities to leaf blowing imo), because it may be louder but it's less annoying.
Death to lawn care. (Yes, I did formerly work for a landscaping company, how could you tell)
I read recently that a leaf blower running for an hour emits roughly the same emissions as a Toyota Camry driving across the U.S.
I'm listening to a wonderful sound of a leaf blower right now. My building manager has somebody hit the back steps every Monday, probably more so nobody slips on a leaf and sues them, but it's very annoying.
It does get at the heart of the problem here, the legislation around this topic is fucking insanely stupid and fallen out of times but it does mean it's not the states problem (or bill) so it's kept on the books. I could rant about this topic for fucking hours
i never understood leaf blowers. they just move the shit to the neighbor's yard. who'll then come out with his leaf blower and blow it back to yours.
rake it up, bag it, compost it, i dunno. but just pushing it around? weird shit.
It's so landscaping companies can have their workers spend as little time at each house as possible.
from that perspective, fair enough. it's a nice grift, where you can blow stuff down the street and collect payment at each house. hustle culture's gonna hustle.
Isn't it just an electric motor with a fan that plugs into the wall? It's no worse than a vacuum.
A lot of leaf blowers are gas powered, IIRC usually with the engine and fuel tank in a backpack so it's like someone's wearing a lawnmower in order to push leaves around.
Ah I guess the industrial landscaping ones are. Mostly what I see is the electric ones though. 2 stroke motors are pretty bad emissions wise