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I hate leaf blowers with the passion of 1000 suns.

Everywhere I am there is a guy running a leaf blower. At my house, leaf blowers everywhere all day long. At work, of course, leaf blowers blowing dirt and allergens into the air. It’s such a special noise, it goes through walls and headphones so effectively. They are the most pervasive, annoying things on the planet. I hate them more than mosquitoes.

mipadaitu ,

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You might enjoy this recent discovery.

Death_Equity ,

Most of the problem is gas-powered blowers, which you can’t silence with that technology.

db2 , (edited )

OK Squidward.

e: Squidward big mad

variants ,

You need to get your own leaf blower and blow back

iconic_admin OP ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e1f390c7-83a0-4f53-8639-11dd0202469e.jpeg

Toes ,

Might need to sound proof a room for maximum chill

Blackout ,
@Blackout@kbin.run avatar

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Noise cancelling headphones. Literally designed to knock out constant droning sounds like leaf blowers or machinery.

Still, I agree. Leaf blowers are just noise and regular pollution generators and don’t really serve a meaningful purpose like good ol’ fashioned raking. Or at least, I’ve never in my life actually seen anyone with a leaf blower, at home or professional, bagging what they’re removing. They just blow it somewhere that it becomes someone else’s problem.

AA5B ,

Pretty much standard procedure here. If you hire a lawn service, they’re bringing a shredder to feed it all into so they can take it away in fewer truckloads

akwd169 ,

I definitely advocate for now cancelling headphones, especially as someone with really bad misophonia.

Sadly, leaf blowers are one of the most penetrative sounds for active noise cancelling, but it’s still way better than nothing

Ejh3k ,

As a landscape professional, I can assure you that we will very often blow things into centralized areas to make it easier to bag/can up and haul off.

Lorindol ,

Leaf blowers in small yards are pointless, agreed. I would never use one in the suburbs.

But I do own one and I use it at my family’s farm, for one day every autumn. It would take 3-4 days just to rake the leaves, with the blower I can easily create large piles here and there. Then I gather all the piles and take them to my leaf compost heap.

Before the blower this used to take a full week. Now I can clear all the lawns in just two days.

Ioughttamow ,

If you don’t like it here you can leaf!

thesocavault ,
@thesocavault@lemmy.world avatar

Booooooo LMAO

Hello_there ,

Ask your city to ban them

iconic_admin OP ,

I’m conflicted on this one. My hatred aside, the guy running the leaf blower is just trying to feed his family. I like @mipadaitu’s idea about the silencers. I doubt lawn companies would adopt them without them being mandatory or the same price as not silencing them somehow.

Melkath ,

The guy feeding his family can feed his family with a rake.

akilou ,

Or even an electric leaf blower. They’re like half the noise.

Telodzrum ,

They work absurdly well, too. Ours takes the same battery pack as the lawnmower and a few other things and it’s basically inaudible if you don’t have direct line of sight on the unit.

taiyang ,

Wish that worked. I was in a city that had banned gas blowers but they still used them instead of the quieter electric ones. Cities never seem to enforce that stuff, and maybe because it’s difficult to enforce.

BachenBenno ,

Let me guess. America?

iconic_admin OP ,

Accurate.

nightwatch_admin ,

Doesn’t need to be. Europe says hello! I’ve got a chap close by with a massive stone “garden” who blows leaves on a daily basis. Town will come by playing ghost busters too, thank $deity not too often in spring and summer though.

cmnybo ,

Just get a pulse jet and fire it up when they start running the leaf blower. You won’t be able to hear the leaf blower anymore.

ShadowRam ,

You need one of these to fight back,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3MwaHQjw7I

Melkath ,

I literally just emailed my local parks and rec because they built a park immediately behind my once peaceful house.

I begged them to stop leaf blowing every single day. There arent even any trees. They are just out there every day blowing the grass. Usually before 7am.

The response I got was basically "sit and spin. If you don't like it, call the cops, but they are city too so they won't do anything."

Ilovethebomb ,

Find out where the mayor lives, and just wander aimlessly around with a leaf blower outside their house at 6am.

Melkath ,

Oh believe me, my neighbors and I REALLY want to.

AmosBurton_ThatGuy ,
@AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca avatar

As much as I would love if you guys did that, practically guaranteed you’d all be fucked in some way because “rules for thee not for me”

Can’t be having filthy peasants disturbing the very hard working politicians and local rich people 🙄

God I hate how the world works.

Melkath , (edited )

Precisely.

They promised complete privacy hedges when they announced the park.

They put in 7 immature trees along a half mile of fenceline.

Neighbors have been calling cops non stop about the illegal activity at night. They showed up once to harass the neighbors and ignore the people in the park.

It's all been a big ol fuck you to the homeowners.

Edit: And for the record, I'm not even a homeowner.

I can't afford a home to own.

My neighbors all own.

I rent.

So I'm cut off at the knees when it comes to actually approaching the city.

AmosBurton_ThatGuy ,
@AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca avatar

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it”

That sucks, I hope things get better for you and your neighbors, even if I doubt it, sadly.

acockworkorange ,

I guess it’s war then.

PurpleClouds ,

They should buy those leafblower silencers those students developed ^^

hobovision ,

They don’t do shit about the sound and smell of the two stroke motors. That’s the sound that pierces noise canceling headphones.

boatsnhos931 ,

Go out there and talk to them while they are working. Be a fucking nuisance with your questions about their personal life, the blowers they have, the amount of fuel they use, what blower you’d recommend. Constantly say what or huh. After each conversation, ask them what time they are coming back and say see you then. It’s most likely a ‘busy’ task to keep their boss off their back…

akwd169 ,

I wouldn’t say I hate them as much as mosquitoes because at least it in the wilderness the ratio of leaf blower dicks goes down (but never zero)

That said, yeah I fucking hate leaf blowers with a furious passion, and they’re everywhere in my city! Regardless of the time, or day, or location in the city, there is at least one leaf blower dick audible!

motor_spirit ,

seemingly half of all independent businesses in the burbs are landscaping, and landscaping is to HOAs what Christianity is to cunts everywhere, so … It makes sense

xia ,

I hate when they wait along the side of the road, and blow the leaves at the passing cars.

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