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I cannot imagine a more useless device than a leaf blower. I can see some marginal use for them in autumn, but rakes still seem to be for sale and don’t use gas, but the idea that no grass clipping should befoul a pavement seems absurd. The existence of the machine has created new, useless, pointless tasks.
I am not alone:
What I had not realized is that, by kicking up dust, particulates, and those noxious chemicals that Chem-Lawn and its competitors have convinced so many to put on their yards, they also increase pollution. Follow the link for details.
May 13, 2010 at 11:30 am
I have a leaf blower. And I use it. As a vacuum for leaves & small sticks, to bag them. We have so many trees that I can’t leave all the leaves on the ground, so a good many of them are picked up.
The only time it’s used as a blower is when the dog is playing & chasing the leaves we’re blowing in her face. Afterward though, I have to get into the shower or my eyes & nose go nuts.
May 13, 2010 at 8:50 pm
If you are going to use it to pile up the leaves so you can bag them, I got no heartburn with that. As much I would like to just let the leaves go back to nature, I can see that on suburban lots that is not an option. (Though once I got a mulching mower I stopped bagging. Better fertilizer than anything from Chem-Lawn.)
But honest to Pete the pool boys were here at the condo cutting the grass today and the last thing they did was go over all the sidewalks waving leaf blowers about so there were no blades of grass on the sidewalks.
Stupid and pointless and a waste of gas and time.
May 14, 2010 at 10:28 am
Actually, we use good old rakes to get them into piles, then use the vacuum to bag. What’s left on the ground is gone over with the mulching mower we have. The front is done a little more diligently than the back, but who can see the back & I don’t care if they do.
But to blow bits & pieces off sidewalks is nuts.