If a genie told me I could erase all land-mines or two-stroke leaf-blowers, I’d choose landmines, but the silence while I considered would be uncomfortably long.
This comment is magic lol
Even electric blowers are extremely loud. I have both varieties, and both require ear protection for extended use.
Well I ain’t gonna get down on my knees and blow them myself
And that’s why I’m leafing you!
Why don’t you make like a tree, and get out of here?
Dammit, this should be the top comment.
No, it should be buried
Under a pile of leaves maybe
I just got a 765cfm battery-powered leaf blower and…
…it’s so much fun. Mindlessly entertaining. I don’t even care if I just blow the leaves back and forth, it’s just…weirdly fun.
Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.
Also fun to blow random things around the house until someone gets mad.
Hey, this guy knows my ex-wife. tugs collar
Is her number still 867-5309?
You’re welcome to come blow my yard whenever you want some free entertainment. I even have two different leaf blowers you can choose from! One is a two-stroke backpack dealio, and the other is a hand-held electric jobbie.
My puppy loses his shit when I aim the leaf blower towards him.
Either the boss said he had to do it, our his homelife is so bad, that blowing leaves is an improvement.
Petromasculinity?
Good word, I like it
It’s from Cara Daggett :)
I’m petty sure it was on Wikipedia as well, but I can’t seem to find it anymore.
Honestly, it’s just fun to blow leaves or snow. It’s a mindless puttering activity that lets you improve your home area and be mildly active.
Unfortunately what happens is people’s general tendency to think about themselves and nobody else. So they’re self-satisfied in their reasons for being out there, not thinking about the dude next door that works nights and can’t sleep, and even his construction-grade noise headphones don’t help. Or the dude that just wants to listen to jazz quietly.
The leaf blower people are well-meaning people with mild mental illness who are just selfish enough not to realize their home/self care is annoying others. e: A lot of times the guy just needs to get the F away from their spouse. I’ve lived near leaf blower people and they’re invariably older married (sometimes retired) men. Never women.
I feel like a rake would be a better alternative on all accounts
Plus, you can leave it in awkward places as a trap!
doinggg!!!
I miss the internet being like this. I like this
A leaf blower is far superior for getting leaves out of corners and other spaces smaller than a rake, especially if the leaves are small or falling apart.
I have an electric one that isn’t that loud, and I generally use it for edges and then rake up the open spaces.
As it happens, it’s about 10 C (50 F) near me and raining, and I did actually think about using my leaf blower for a very specific purpose: blowing the leaves clear of the road gutters.
I saw outside my window that the autumn leaves formed a dam in the gutter, impounding an amount of water which started diverting onto the asphalt and the sidewalk. From what little I know about road construction, water intrusion is the greater enemy so I didn’t want to let the small pond sit there.
In the end, I just picked the leaves up by hand to remove the obstruction. But if I had a lot more streetfront, leaf blower would be the first tool to come to mind. But it would take no more than 10 minutes total.
I like using leaf blower, don’t like listening to leaf blower.
I had a neighbor for a while that ran his gas blower for a couple hours EVERY DAY. I think he had some sort of PTSD trauma and it soothed him.
He also dug holes in his backyard to bury leaves. Quite a …… character.
Would that make them compost faster?
Probably not, air is an ingredient in compost. It’s why compost barrels spin.
I don’t think so. And it was a LOT of leaves. We’re talking big holes. He would dig a hole, put in the leaves, and stand there with a string trimmer, blasting away at them. Then cover them up. It was especially odd because the city collects them for free. All you have to do is blow/rake them into a pile on the street.
Um leafblowers are portable jets and just as fun as an air-compressor.
It’s because he can’t use his chain saw on anything.
What is with the leaf blower hate around here? Must be a Yankee thing, never hear them around here.
And if you live in an apartment complex, they have to clear the leaves. They get slippery. You do the math.
If you live in the suburbs, during the fall, you can’t have a peaceful weekend because there will always be at least one person using a leaf blower nearby. And they’re loud and bad for the environment.
Where I live, gas ones are illegal but that doesn’t stop all the leaf blowers choking the air with gas fumes. I literally have to turn on an air purifier to get rid of the smell.
Granted my apartment isn’t exactly a commercial workspace, but nothing is more infuriating than having to close all the doors/windows to my apartment when I’m in the middle of some huge programming problem. It instantly breaks apart the 10 things going on in my mental queue.
I’ve considered getting an electric one to blow all the dust out of my shop/warehouse, but I can’t justify the cost. I need a good shop/push broom and Japan doesn’t seem to like those (at least anywhere that I’ve looked).
That would just blow the dust everywhere. You need a broom or a shop vac.
I saw this exact thing getting off the highway by the first gas station near a pizza place today in Everett.
Ever tried that Leaf Blower Idle game?
