Leaf Blowers- The devil's wind instrument or a great labor saving device

[NJmaverick]

Have at it

[EndersDame]

1. Noise makers for lazy people!

[unpossibles]

2. I think they are a stupid waste of fuel. nt

[Richardo]

3. Electrics? Annoying but tolerable. Gas powered? Abominations from hell...

...because Satan threw them out of Hell.

[EastTennesseeDem]

4. Annoying pieces of shit that are currently requiring me to have my windows closed.

It's in the 60's, it's bright and sunny, and I have a paper to write. :-(

[madinmaryland]

5. Annoying pieces of shit.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Are you referring to leaf blowers

or Cowboy Fans? I have an electric one. Use it about 1/2 hour a year and am happy I have it.

[madinmaryland]

8. You crack me up, Boss!

:hi:

The gas leaf blowers. We have a lawn service in the condo complex that insists on using those fucking things incessantly. :grr:

In fact all of the lawn services all use those goddam things.

[BOSSHOG]

10. You da Man MIM

So you live in a condo complex? So you are rich and have illegals blowing away your detritus? There are a couple of widow ladies in the neighborhood who contract out their lawn service and they use the gas blowers. I've yet to find it a problem. A couple minutes here, a couple minutes there and the neighborhood looks good. I prefer the blowers to kids screaming and shouting.

The Hogs will own Jerry's House this Saturday.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. Useful...

...for herding cats.

[madinmaryland]

9. Open a can of tuna works just as well, and everyone ends up happy!

[Auggie]

11. Devil's wind instrument

[hunter]

12. They do have their (dangerous) uses...

I liked this one:



http://www.eugenesargent.com/casting.htm

I have seen worse.

[madrchsod]

17. i made one of those with a vacuum cleaner

my high school shop teacher bet me that it would`t melt steel...he lost.

they did`t made leaf blowers when i was a kid.

[NJmaverick]

18. What is that some sort of blast funace?

[Mugu]

13. I love mine.

But I don't remember ever having used it to blow leaves. They're the best when you have a fire that doesn't really want to burn such as a tree stump.

I would much rather hear a leave blower than a damned basketball or screaming kids.

[petronius]

14. Absolutely pathetic - use a broom or a rake and actually pick up the leaves

It really doesn't take any longer to push a broom...

[RoyGBiv]

15. My Saturday Morning Alarm Clock

I *hate* them.

[madrchsod]

16. my arm is screwed up so i have to use a leaf blower

[NJmaverick]

19. Electric or gas?

[The2ndWheel]

20. Labor saving device?

Leave the leaves where they are. That's saving labor.

[JonLP24]

21. I wish I had one of those in the Basic Training during the fall at Ft Leonard Wood, MO

That's all I have to say.

Here in the Sonoran desert we typically don't have that problem.

[One_Life_To_Give]

22. It part of the Leaf solution

I'll be cleaning up about 700Bushel of leaves again this year. Most done with a lawn tractor. But when you spend that many hours on leaves, you start to appreciate anything that can save you a little time.

[ipfilter]

23. Leaf blowers just turn your leaf

problem into another persons leaf problem.

[bif]

24. The only reason I welcome winter!

I hear them from sunup to sundown, all summer, 7 days a week!

[eppur_se_muova]

25. Devices for converting fossil fuels into GHGs and noise pollution. nt