• jpreston2005@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    When I was younger I spent an afternoon hanging out with my grandfather. We sat on the porch of my fathers house smoking cigarettes. My mom came outside and asked me to clear the fallen leaves off the porch. Well, young me went to the garage and pulled out the awesome backpack leaf blower my Dad had. Proceeded to spend a few very noisy minutes trying to get some leaves out of a corner, when my grandfather laughed and said, “you know, sometimes the harder way is easier.” and handed me a broom. Took all of a 5 minutes to sweep everything off nicely, whereas I was getting nowhere blowing leaves every which way.

    I don’t even own a leaf blower now, don’t need one.

    • Fogle@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      If you need to move leaves to a place a leaf blower is no good. They are only good for moving leaves away from a place