Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower

• callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The same kind of morons rolling coal and destroying their engines.

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  • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I instantly imagined someone rolling coal with their leaf blower… you know it’s going to happen, even if they’re not diesel.

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• Unlikelyvillain@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is very true. I just know my neighbour wouldn’t choose a quieter option if he had the chance

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• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Seeing how some very particular relatives are, I wonder if much of the gas leaf blower cloud is less “watch me stick it to the libs” and more “look at me, I’m cleaning my yard, that makes me better than you”

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And by “cleaning my yard” they really mean “blowing whatever I consider a mess onto whatever is beside my yard, or in the general vicinity for the dust”.

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• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I use things that work because typically over engineered things (like the ‘quiet’ leafblower) are most likely very problematic and will fail. I just do not trust anything new anymore. Companies did this and forced me to stop caring about ‘innovation’ with their constant lies and fraud.

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I use things that work

    Blowing leaves around instead of removing it, isn’t ideal then.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Leafblowers are used to collect it into a pile which is then raked/shoveled into a bin. The blower is much faster and less effort than the rake at collecting everything into the pile.

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      • Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Everyone I see using them merely uses it to blow the detritus into the street. What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, but people don’t do that

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      • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No, that’s what a rake does.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do you think a leaf BLOWER sucks leaves up?

      Your thinking of a leaf vacuum which the article is NOT referring too…

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, I figure that’s the kind of thing they’re going to say.

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No we obviously need more cheap plastics that will dry rot in your shed and shitty rubber grips that will turn to sticky goo in five years, as well as lowest bidder designed control circuitry with a dozen corners cut.

    I get what you mean, modern power tools feel like Fisher Price toys. They're disposable.

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    • spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe the garbage brands. Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, etc are very well made, and significantly more powerful than they were 5-10 years ago.

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    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hey, don’t diss Fisher Price toys. The old ones from 40+ years ago were solid. So much so that the iconic telephone on wheels and with eyes is still around.

      Modern day crap though? Oh I’m with you!

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