This becoming the next faux-outrage, Republican/conservative wedge issue in…3…2…1.
Tell them they’re made in China or Mexico
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Good riddance!
Why?
Do you not have ears?
I live in a high rise in a metropolis and wish they would be banned. The maintenance crew of the university the other side of the street is using those things in the spring and fall. Exactly the time of the year when I want to open my windows, they, with their ear protection are blasting their engines on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off, while I’m trying to watch a video or listen to some music. Whiiiiiiiiiiir, pap pap pap pap pap pap whiiiiiiiiiir whiiiiir whiiiiiiir whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir pap pap pap pap pap whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir.
There’s a hundred windows in front of them, and another high rise just the other side of the street. How many people are just as annoyed as I am because those lazy fuckers can’t be bothered to use a rake?
Worse, the maintenance of my own high rise joins them a few times a month to blow the gravel off the fucking concrete around the building. So again, windows open, all you can hear for an hour is those fucking blowers on and off and on and off and on and off.
The other day I was eating on a terrasse and the handymen were replacing pieces of wood. Well, instead of sweeping the wood chips, he used a fucking blower among the people eating, to “clean up”.
Those things can go to hell for all I care.
I thought the noise was mainly due to the air, so I don’t really see how switching to electric ones would help
Incorrect, the engine exhaust noise far overwhelms the fan blade air. But sure all sound must travel thru the air. Smarter blade design would cut some noise down as well. And remember the engines are usually most efficient at some high RPM. That’s why hybrids rev up their engine even when not moving the car…just being efficient.
Never heard an electric one for comparison but alright
They still make some noise but its only when you get very close to the blower because the higher pitched noise is more attenuated by the atmosphere and environment.
That’s nice then
Now we have to fix the battery problem and it’ll be perfect
A number of states and cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers due to pollution, noise and health risk concerns.
🧐 Cars are next, right? Riiiight???
I have come to love gas powered leaf blowers this past month. There really is nothing better for trail maintenance. If you have to clear a couple miles of trail a gas powered leaf blower makes it a literal walk in the park. Electric ones just don’t have the kind of power that the backpack ones do and run out of battery too quickly. Or you have to rake the whole thing by hand which could take a day or two.
That being said in some areas you’re not allowed to use a leaf blower (electric or gas).
This supports my stance for the electric vs gas argument. Which basically boils down to use the right tool for the job. Is using an electric blower the correct tool to clear miles of trials, not really. Use gas. Does that Amazon delivery vehicle running stop and go all day need to be gas, no. Use electric. It’s not hard.
For those ev vans specifically they are better but they have some issues with sandy roads in rural areas because they’re so heavy.
Literally exactly what this person just said is the advice I give to you: use the correct tool for the job.
Not exactly. Evs will be drastically cheaper to operate so they will try to use them as much as possible. The owners will push them and the drivers will try to avoid them when they have difficulty. Amazon doesn’t like having variants, they prefer to have uniform vehicles that are identical. The point is that the people doing it don’t have any choice in selecting the right tool and the people who do only look at spreadsheets.
I haven’t seen a comparable backpack electric blower, but for my backyard the one I got is more than enough and I have a lot of overhanging trees.
Things are progressing quickly though, soon enough you should be able to get one for your needs. Also the lower noose level is nice.
The little ones were great for clearing snow off roofs and used the same batteries as the tools we used. But if you buy a big one now you’ve also got to Invest in a new battery ecosystem. Then you may as well buy an electric chainsaw and pole saw/weed whacker. And now does the entire ecosystem make sense to switch yet?
I mean if the maintenance crew can’t wake up the whole apartment complex work the leaf blower what’s even the point? /s
The scythe returns…
Glad I just got one from a yard sale. I don’t really have a use for it, just fixed it and think it is nice to stand in my front yard at the beginning and end of each day (within the legal noise ordinance) revving it up and blowing nothing. Just for my neighbours.
Lotta comments from folks without callouses. Electric tools suck, you never have enough batteries, they might have speed but the torque sucks, and who’s gonna replace the thousands of dollars worth of gas tools I have? Keep yapping softhands, I’ll eat your downvotes for breakfast and go burn 5 gallons of mix before days end Monday.
I rebuilt my house from the ground up, from the foundation to the studs to the drywall, by myself, it was the cheapest on the market for a reason. So don’t worry, the callouses are plenty.
You’ll do fine with an electric leaf-blower. If you have a landscaping business or maybe 20 acres, I’d say you’re in a pickle and frustration is definitely justified.
The batteries can be a pain and a lot of the cheap ones die quick, buy a few extra quality batteries and remember to charge them. With the cost of gas alone you’ll end up saving money in the long-run if you’re out there as often as you suggest. I built a solar generator that powers my garage which is where I charge my batteries, so it litterally cost me nothing but the initial investment. I have a quarter acre and do my neighbors half acre, 2 batteries ~$30 a piece let’s me weedwack and blow. My mower goes through 2 and I have an extra one just encase I need it.
Having to replace everything you have definetly sucks, I feel like they should just stop selling them and let the ones out there go until they die instead o prematurely going in a landfill.
…what electric tool batteries do you have that are $30 apiece? 🤨 I’m terribly curious. Because I’ve paid $350 for currently top of the line Milwaukee M18 Forge 12.0 batteries. Each.
Ooo that might’ve been misleading. I bought them as the local hardware store was shutting down about a year ago. I helped the owner out with website stuff so I got a percentage off plus the out of business sale. I think they were ~$80 originally. Nothing fancy.
Slightly misleading, but I’m not going to begrudge you for getting a hell of a deal. 🙂
Bosch 18V, 2Ah are around 30-35 euro where I live
That’s not to mention how your precious batteries are even fucking made, if you want to talk about ecological travesties. This is typical liberal pearl clutching.
In the United States alone, 350,000 premature deaths can be attributed to fossil fuel pollution on a yearly basis. Then there is the impact of offshore oil spills, leaky pipelines, and the occasional refinary explosion.
All you have done in this whole thread is pearl clutch. This is a big part of why leftists and liberals all hate conservatives.
Damn, it’s so cool that oil drilling and oil refining are famously such a clean and non-destructive processes, otherwise you would look like a complete idiot right now.
Fuck yes about time
Yea I gotta walk away from this thread the ignorance stinks so badly
