It’s all awful and loud noises until you get ear protection, grab the machine, and become the leaf blower. Then it becomes the perfect game for holding our attention.
It’s seriously so satisfying.
electric? fine. combustion engine powered? fucking end them all.
Hand crank only please I’m trying to work.
Leaf blowers should be forbidden!
and also your neighbours doing DIY one after the other
if they want to use their powertools fine but at least pick a day out of the week to do it all together!
edit: typo
Are you me? I have been ranting about this for years.
Dickheads would do this at 7am on mondays outside my appartment.
For a good minute or 2 today a leaf blower, chainsaw, and police sirens combined powers to just fuck my shit up
i just realized i barely ever hear leafblowers here in sweden (i think they only really use them to clean up the winter gravel) and thank fuck for that
Do people just mostly use rakes or leave the leaves where they fall?
part rakes, part “why on earth would you care about removing leaves”
They can clog up storm water drainage systems and lead to flooding. That’s the only good reason. I rake them up and mulch them with my mower.
In Switzerland, at least where I am, people normally use rakes on their yard and they send a street sweeper along every road/sidewalk at least once a week.
Hate them with a passion.
I don’t get it, what’s the problem with leaf blowing?
Like others have said, it’s loud, but it’s also that it’s a constant noise that can often tend to cut through whatever you’re currently trying to focus on.
Add on the tendency people have to feather the throttle (do leaf blowers have throttles?), making the noise really inconsistent and unpredictable, and it makes it difficult to keep what little focus you have.
Sometimes, when there’s like 3 different leaf blowers going at once, I can barely keep my train of thought if I can’t drown it out by turning my music all the way up. :\
Yeah, there’s usually a throttle. My dad has an old electric one that plugs into an extension cord and it’s strictly on/off, but pretty much every other one I’ve used lets you adjust the speed, whether gas or electric/battery. It’s helpful because you don’t necessarily want to blast leaves at full power when you get them close to your target (like a pile of leaves that you’re adding to and don’t want to disperse), but sometimes you need that full power to move things that are a bit stuck. Plus with my battery powered blower, the higher power levels drain the battery faster and the low levels are quieter.
It’s interesting, those sounds have never really broken through on me, but I’m 41 and just got diagnosed this year. Pretty much just inattentive type, little to no hyperactivity. Any sort of conversation can pull me away though.
