Amirite?
Leaf blowers are the ultimate petty bourgeois machine, producing a ridiculous amount of noise and air pollution, making life worse for everyone around you, and negating ecological cycles all to keep your ugly colonial grass yard clear of “debris”
My neighbor has a fucking professional leaf blower that’s gas operated and has backpack straps for a yard that’s pitiful in size, so obnoxious, but they are nice people so land of contrasts.
It’s subconscious, like driving. They probably never consider its effects on other people and the environment.
Sounds like mine
He has 2 gas powered blowers, several edgers, 1 regular mower and and a pro grade riding mower for a plot that is maybe 1/3 of an acre
Incredibly nice and he mows other yards in the neighborhood for older folks for free, but so overkill lol
I know he’s not a landscape contractor, the guy’s retired and a former firefighter; just funny
Gas leaf blowers just got banned in Portland, goes into effect 2026.
The dream of the 90’s really is alive in Portland!
swing by the vintage rake store for all your leaf mitigation needs
some guy under my window: “oh boy it’s 6 am, time for some BRRRRAAPP BRRRRAAPP BBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”
two people perpetually blowing the leaves back and forth into each others yards
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“Simplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles,” Fallows writes. “About one-third of the gasoline that goes into this sort of engine is spewed out, unburned, in an aerosol mixed with oil in the exhaust.”
I have one that uses an electrical outlet and another that’s battery powered, but I mostly use them for cleaning up work areas.
Let me just take all the nutrients this tree just pulled out of the soil and ship them somewhere else. What could go wrong?
There are many other reasons to let leaves be but I will not be typing them out.
There’s a place for leafblowers if you’re doing some specialized landscaping around forests (sell towers and other utility buildings), but they really should be given to those with licensing as a result.
soycon in the morning: huff some gas and blow on grass
chadcom in the morning: rake some grass and get that ass
Ascended: leave the leaves on the grass
But without my loud ass gas powered leaf blower how will i scare all the outdoor cats back inside?
Simplest benchmark: running a leafblower for 30 minutes creates more emissions than driving a F-150 pickup truck 3800 miles
I am struggling to understand this - a leaf blower goes through 160 gallons of fuel every 30 minutes?
No. Small engines are very dirty and emit more pollutants per gallon of fuel. An F-150 has a thousand dollars of catalytic converter and other emissions control devices.
ok for real though what happened to leaf blowers? People have used leaf blowers around me for as long as I’ve been alive, but last fall suddenly the sound of leaf blowers became absolutely deafening. The sound was rattling inside my skull even after closing all my windows and going into a different room. Have they somehow changed leaf blowers to be like exponentially louder or something?
Specific but true as hell
