I look forward to seeing more electric leaf blowers. Sure they have a bit of an annoying high pitched whine when you’re close by, but you’re not going to hear it more than 5 meters away. I’ve also been seeing more electric lawn mowers which are also much quieter.
some days i cant even
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jaykrown@lemmy.world 3 days ago
AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have an electric leaf blower, it’s pretty loud and you can definitely hear it >5m away, in fact you could probably hear it several hundred metres away. I do agree they are less disturbing overall though.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Where is the sound coming from to make it that noisy? Is it more the engine or the woosh?
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I look forward to seeing less leaf blowers in general. I don’t get the obsession with getting rid of leaves. You’re damaging the local ecosystem for what? The ability to watch your grass turn brown?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
Hi, leaf pilled person here. I still have a leaf blower to get them off my driveway. IN FACT! I use a leaf blower to get them off the pavement and onto the ground where they’ll be beneficial. They’re still a useful piece of equipment.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Grass turns brown in the fall, for you? That usually only happens in the summer here, when we get heat waves. The grass is green every other time, covered or not covered.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
Yeah, it’s really crazy how much quieter the electric lawn tools are. It’s very noticeable.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I commonly use an electric leafblower for work, it’s loud as fuck
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
How about not having lawns in the first place?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I am an all electric human as I can be.
Electric: mower, leaf blower, edger, chainsaw, pole saw, car, tiller.
Last thing to swap isy houses heat from gas but that is a major job that requires many upgrades.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 days ago
Heat pumps are super nice. And they get better every year. But it is an investment.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Man I want to replace my 2 cycle backpack blower now.
My handheld (Ryobi 20v, meh) is alright for cleaning the driveway or the deck, but if I want to actually move leaves around the heard, it’s weak.
I love my ego mower and my ego snowblower (although I only had one season with it so far and I think we got a total of 3 inches of snow, so…yea). An ego backpack blower would be tits.
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Our park ranger is a nice guy and I help him out from time to time, and we got talking about how leafblowers suck.
He said that yes they’re loud, but they are remarkably efficient at moving leaves into a nice pile, missing nothing
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 days ago
we got talking about how leafblowers suck.
In my experience, they tend to blow, even the good ones.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
if your leafblower suck, there’s a switch for that. read the fucking manual before complaining
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The “missing nothing” part is problematic. Many creatures rely on leaves to survive or reproduce. Fireflies are a common example. Their population has been decimated by the complete removal of leaves as standard practice
I cannot understand why people are so intent on removing every leaf from their yard
tourist@lemmy.world 3 days ago
leafblowers suck
they literally do the opposite u idot 😤😡
tetris11@feddit.uk 3 days ago
no mebe u r 🫵
Eq0@literature.cafe 3 days ago
Yep, not even all the ecosystems that were nearly settling their lives there. Rakes are more gentle
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 days ago
Using the same principle as noise cancelling headphones, you could just blast an equally loud counter sound to negate the blower’s noise.
But where’s the fun in that?
carmo55@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Won’t work sadly, the “counter sound” can’t be in phase in multiple locations because of delay and reflections. Headphones can do ANC because the ear is basically a single point so the mic can pick up exactly what you’re about to hear and then compensate.
Using a speaker like that would just create double the leafblower noise.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 days ago
How I wish active noise cancellation was a thing for rooms rather than just headphones.
This would be a game changer for people in multi-family housing.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Or leafblowers could include that as a mandatory feature
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 days ago
I mean, would they even hear anything over the leafblower?
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Okay! I’ll make sure to blast my sirens at my neighbour next time he leafblows. That totally won’t get me in any trouble whatsoever lmao
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 3 days ago
People who unironically think this should go clean some leaves themselves and see how long they stick with the rake.
It’s always so much easier to tell other people how to do their job.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
But I hate climate change and like bees
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
‘Cleaning’ leaves is stupid as hell anyway.
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 days ago
Depends if you’re going for most or all of the leaves. If you’re just going for most and you’re not incompetent, rake is easy and which.
einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
is a blower more fun, yes, do i drive a tank instead of a bike because of that? no
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SORRY I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE NEIGHBOR BLOWING LEAVES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 days ago
I don’t mind leafblowers but don’t start at 8 AM IN THE MORNING
lemming741@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My retired neighbor waits to do it on Sunday. I think he has a bottle of 2 stroke oil on his nightstand beside the tissue box
Erdalion@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Where I used to live, they would start at 7 AM. EVERY DAY, INCLUDING THE WEEKENDS.
I was tempted to buy a leafblower for myself, follow the leafblower guy around, and just throw all the leaves back at him.
hedge_lord@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s my FAMILY TRADITION to blow leaves in every day of JANUARY you don’t understand god put them there to BE BLOWN
(not but really last January I heard so many leaf blowers. What are you blowing? Ghost leaves??)
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 3 days ago
Fuck them at all hours
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I got you, I’ll start it at 10pm after so you won’t have to see it.
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 days ago
marcos@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s amazingly good and annoying at the same time.
Saurok@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Obligatory “leave the leaves” if you can. Insects and small animals use the leaf litter and they’re good for soil creation (thanks, worms and fungi). Wondering why you don’t see as many lightning bugs/fireflies nowadays? Leave your leaves and they’ll have places to lay their eggs. Avoid becoming a member of the cult of the lawn!
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 days ago
I’m so angry. I had leaves for two years and the city made me remove them like right during the nesting period. So it’s gonna be another two years before I see an increase in fireflies.
luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 days ago
My grandpa apparently went to war with the municipal council over his unmown meadow. Had a decent piece of land with wild flowers and grasses and all that. The story was told to me second-hand about 15 years ago and is at least 30-40 years old, but if I got it right, he mowed that land once per year in fall.
The council wasn’t happy with that, because he was supposed to mowed it twice per year, once in spring. Grandpa refused to cut down the flowers in their bloom, both because of all the things living in and off that and because pretty. Stern letter, discussions in person, deadline was set and went by. All the while, the “unkempt” non-lawn grew.
Eventually council imposed a fine. Obviously, a fine is supposed to compel a change in behaviour, but they couldn’t set deadlines tight enough or the initial fine high enough to actually hurt him, so he just paid his “fuck your lawns” fee year by year.
I believe they gave up at some point, but I’m not sure whether that’s just wishful thinking. In any case, that meadow was still growing wild and free when I was old enough to assist in the yearly mowing, long after his death.
Obviously, we can’t all afford to stick it to the local bean counters that stubbornly, but it’s nice to dream sometimes.
Taldan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I leave all the leaves in my yard, and mine is the only one with a lot of fireflies. It’s amazing at night
WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Depends on the climate and the number of trees. I understand wanting to leave all the leaves, but it’ll just create a muddy mess in my yard. I mulch them, it spreads through the yard. I circle around the trees and garden beds to get more leaves in those areas. Leftovers go on the composting pile.
WALLACE@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah the tree:land ratio of my back garden is highly in favour of the trees. Every autumn the entire area gets coated in a thick layer of sycamore leaves that can easily take a year to decompose even in a compost pile. I rake that shit into piles over my flowerbeds for the winter, then into the compost during the spring. I would mow them but it’s the UK so it’s rare to find an autumn day where the leaves aren’t too wet and soggy.
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Ewwww, there are bugs in my lawn‽ Kill them kill them kill them!
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Oh no! Are there completely harmless animals outside?! How scary!