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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.
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.
Where is the sound coming from to make it that noisy? Is it more the engine or the woosh?
Da whoosh
It's basically a big hair dryer, there's a big fan in it
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?
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.
a broom would work better, be quicker, and not cause as much stress to your human and animal neighbors.
The last part may be true, but the first two are definitely not.
You severely overestimate how long it takes to blow my driveway. Well under five minutes. I do it less than once a month. Maybe once a week in the fall, if even. I think the animal neighbors in my dirt are happy for the leaves.
i think you're overestimating how long it'd take to sweep.
I just use my bare hands personally. Green to the core
Hands have bacteria on them that might get killed.
I blow them away using air from my lungs.
Way to out yourself as someone who has never done manual labor.
no, i've just done enough, both with and without power tools, to know how to pick the right tool for the job.
if you need to blow some dirt off a road just to make it look nicer at the end of a roadworks project, or get the bulk of the small branches out of the way after a tree trimming, and don't care about being thorough, then sure, i guess a leaf blower will get the job done (and you've been running much louder and heavier equipment all day, so who gives a fuck about the noise pollution).
but if you just want to clear some wet fallen leaves off a driveway so it looks nicer, i'd pick the pushbroom every single time. it'll get the job done quicker, cleaner, and with far less making my neighbors hate me. having a leaf blower for personal use seems completely insane to me.
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.
I commonly use an electric leafblower for work, it's loud as fuck
Yeah, it's really crazy how much quieter the electric lawn tools are. It's very noticeable.
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.
Heat pumps are super nice. And they get better every year. But it is an investment.
I have two, one for the garage and one for my 2nd floor bedroom that doesn't get much from the main HVAC unit. I even got the smallest units you can for those spaces and they are still too good and cool too much.
I've been thinking about doing a mini split for my office/upstairs bedroom, since that floor is always the hottest area of the home. Damn if the install cost isn't as much as the damned equipment
My first install I used a DIY friendly version that came with pre charged lines. That went well and is still going strong after 4 years. That one was fine because you can't shorten the lines but the run was long enough that there wasn't a huge bundle of hoses. But the garage one I did the non DIY version. I already had a vacuum pump so I just bought the other few tools like the pip flaring tool and vacuum gauges. It's actually a pretty simple process to DIY, just practice making the pipe flairs before doing it officially.
Good to know. Do you have any links or recommendations to look into?
Not really, mostly just watched install videos on YouTube. I watched pretty much all of them that came up. They all mostly agreed with each other except for the length of time to run the vacuum on the lines. But I guess it depends on the quality of the pump.
How about not having lawns in the first place?
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.
Edit: holy shit those are expensive. But man I keep having to dump oil/gas mix because I can't possibly use it up before it goes bad and the blower loses all its gusto. But pre-mix is ridiculously expensive (but works sooo much better).