it's time we outlaw leaf blowers

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it's time we outlaw leaf blowers

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we're burying the lede here
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I have an electric one that while loud it's not nearly as loud as the gas ones.
I only use it to clear off the driveway / pathways / street after mowing the yard.
using one to just blow leaves around the yard is fucking retarded - that's what rakes are for.
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The leaves can just stay there I don't care
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I just mow them if I can - they get chopped into tiny pieces.
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:idea:
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Nick wrote::idea:
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natural composting mother FUCKers
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I use a leaf blower after I mow grass :santa:
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Well stop that foolish bullshit
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Nick wrote:Well stop that foolish bullshit
rake that shit up
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No. Just fucking sard instead.
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rhino wrote:I use a leaf blower after I mow grass :santa:
after :huh: what is left
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I blow off the road and sidewalk dingus
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Nick wrote:The leaves can just stay there I don't care
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rhino wrote:I blow off the road and sidewalk dingus
Nope. That's where the grass lives now.
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just let the goddamn wind carry it away

or, if you absolutely must interfere, use a broom
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Or throw some old bathwater at it
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no no that goes in the garden
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Maybe the garden is downhill
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it is :idea:
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Is it because the blow and not suck?
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sounds like a lot of unnecessary work
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While in the lunchroom at work today there was a copy of consumer reports magazine on one of the tables, so I started flipping through it. When I landed on the article about leaf blowers I started laughing and couldn't really explain why when asked what was so funny :redneck:

Kind of a cool magazine, by the way. I don't generally buy or update most of the stuff they review, but I'm thinking of getting my parents a subscription for Christmas. Seems like something they would enjoy, and then of course I could flip through it when I visit :tvrky:
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:redneck:

we got a subscription for christmas a couple of years ago. i always think "ooh this will be so helpful" and then remember we don't need any of the shit in there and couldn't afford most of it anyway
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morbid board eli wrote::redneck:

we got a subscription for christmas a couple of years ago. i always think "ooh this will be so helpful" and then remember we don't need any of the shit in there and couldn't afford most of it anyway
Same here. My parents got us a subscription as a gift last year. They come in the mail but I don’t bother to read them.
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leaf blowers are one of the more bizarre things
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They make sense if you're getting up there in age and have a big yard with a lot of deciduous trees in it and around the perimeter. My parents have this and raking every year got to be too much for them. Luckily those landscaping conditions also make it hard to bother any neighbors with the noise. They can hardly even see any other houses through the forest.
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another option is to not rake and instead let the leaves decay and fertilize the soil like they are god damn supposed to
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That doesn't work when you have as many trees as they do. It's either don't rake and then watch the grass rot and die in the spring, or rake and keep it around. This happened to my sister's lawn, and a far off part of my parents' lawn that they finally gave up on suffered the same fate.

Luckily they're downsizing in the next year and moving a few miles up the road to a place 1/3 the size.
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Paste Human wrote:don't rake and then watch the grass rot and die in the spring
correct

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qev-Nho7p1U
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