Does anyone else HATE the sound of leaf blowers?

[AngryDem001]

They give me a fucking headache. Its one of those sounds that just drills into your skull. Plus, the fumes they emit could probably single-handedly melt the ice caps.

Any other leaf-blower haters here?

[HERVEPA]

1. Pretty much everyone I'd say.

[Xyzse]

2. About as much as I hate the sound of Lawnmowers.

I love those mechanical ones that no one seems to use nowadays.

[Jenoch]

3. It's been my experience that the use of leaf blowers

by a homeowner does not last long enough in my neighborhood to get worked up about.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. They have a high pitched whine to them that pierces my ears.

My neighbor lady has a deck that she uses a blower to remove fallen leaves. Would be twice as fast to sweep them off the deck, I think, but she blows that thing for 30 minutes at a time. If the wind is right, I can hear it clearly, and have to take refuge on the other side of the house.

[Ron Obvious]

5. Yes!

And pressure washers and gas-powered edge trimmers and lawn-mower that make more noise and pollute more than an idling 18-wheeler.

I have a battery-operated mower that is nearly silent. I'd like to see all gas-operated garden equipment banned, or at the very least muffled and pollution controlled.

[Skittles]

6. honey, work 12 hour night shifts and you'll REALLY detest them

yes INDEED

[alarimer]

7. What a pointless piece of equipment, in addition to being annoying.

I have no idea why leaves can't be left where they fall.

[Fumesucker]

15. The kill the grass

Then what would you do with the mower?

[lululu]

23. they don't kill the grass

if you mow over them, reducing them to fertilizer.

[Brother Buzz]

8. It's weed whacker season in my neighborhood

And it's the assholes with the itchy trigger finger, constantly revving it up and down, that drive me mad.

[frogmarch]

9. Yes, but

not as much as I hate the sound of mr. froggy chopping ice cubes in the blender for his fruit smoothie concoction.

[Skittles]

20. you want I should kick some Mr. Froggy ice cube-chopping ass, frogmarch?

I'D DO THAT FOR YOU MY SWEET

[frogmarch]

21. Why, thank you, Skittles,

how thoughtful of you to offer, but Mr. Froggy's ice cube-chopping ass was handed to him this morning. In the blender.

[Skittles]

25. YOU ARE MY KIND OF GAL

yes INDEED

[UTUSN]

10. I just don't "get" them (their use). They blow the stuff into the street. Is the wind supposed to

blow everything away or is the City vacuum truck supposed to pass by? I do the curb weedeating then sweep it all up and take it away in the can. Don't hate me for being exemplary!1

[Initech]

11. I hate the sound of *ANY* loud motors!

Vacuums, car wash machines, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, you name it.

[Sherman A1]

12. No

There are other sounds I find much more offensive....

[kairos12]

13. Dental drill on steroids.

[femmocrat]

14. That is the only piece of annoying outdoor equipment our crazy yahoo neighbors do not have.

Giant John Deere lawn tractors, quads, chainsaws, weed whackers, some kind of thing they "rev" up over and over.... it goes on and on....

I keep the windows closed and the AC on to drown out the drone.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. ESPECIALLY annoying on college campuses ...

pretty hard for a lecturer to project over these bastards.

Converting fossil fuel to greenhouse gases and noise pollution. Who decided THAT was a good idea ?

[GoCubsGo]

17. I'm not crazy about them.

I don't own one, but once in a while I wish I had one. I have water oak trees in my yard. The leaves tend to escape the rake, and get stuck down in the blades of grass. They also seem to escape the mulching mower. The only thing that gets them out is a blower. I sometimes resort to using my shop vac, that can be reversed into a blower. I'll blow the leaves and dust out of my garage that way, too.

[Raine1967]

28. That's the tee that drops its leaves in our tiny yard.

It's why we got a mulching leaf blower.

I tend to use ours when people are at work. I love and hate that tree at the same time.

[KamaAina]

18. Yup!

[RobinA]

19. I Don't Like The Sound

but it's not the actual sound, it's that when I hear them I'm reminded that they exist. Why do leaves need to be blown? Eeewwww....leaves where they don't "belong," how ever will civilization survive? Then there's the leaf blower blowing the mowed grass clippings off the sidewalk, or, where there are no curbs, off the actual street? Since when does everyone have to have their "grounds" with a Buckingham Palace manicure?

[lululu]

22. yes

[Baitball Blogger]

24. Leaf blowers, commercial lawn mowers, chainsaws.

I can always tell when it's Thursday.

[Raine1967]

26. I hate them all at once. Let me explain…

When I lived in atlanta, my neighborhood had a bunch of homes that hired lawn care services. From Monday to Wednesday those suckers were going NON stop until noon. The sound of them (2-4 at a time) drove me twitchy. Yes, the smell of the 2 stoke engines was terrible! (I would like to see them banned in cities to be honest.)

I have a leaf blower, It's electric. It's also a mulcher. I use it when I need to mulch leaves... My yard is to small for a mower, but we have a HUGE tree a couple to houses down that likes to leaves its leaves in our yard. They are leaves that we can rake up in the fall, but come spring there are still many more there.

Give me an electric blower anytime. and let's not have them ALL the time in many numbers.

[calimary]

27. YES.

And it always bothers me to think about that stupid waste of fuel. Hell, you can do that just as easily and a lot more economically with a rake.

[love_katz]

29. Yes!

A pointless, polluting (both gas fumes and noise) piece of junk. I hate them!