One reaon urban areas want to ban two-stroke leaf blowers is that landscaping firms often start work at 7 AM when many people are still trying to sleep. Said people are upset from the loss of rest.
Edit: mind when I say lawn, I do not necessarily mean grass XD Most of our yard is now native clover and it smells soooo good and needs so less attention plus the bees love it, that I cannot recommend it enough.
Yeah. I'm glad you get it that not everyone has the option to forgo a lawn. Some are required to have and maintain that grass. I prefer the more wild look, the animal friendly, natural landscaping look for a yard. But there's this city ordinance that says I can't let my grass grow taller than 6 inches, and while it doesn't say I have to have grass, it does say I can't let weeds grow, and guess who gets to decide what's a weed? (hint: not me) If it were up to me I wouldn't have a lawn. Right now I'm trying to decide if I can get by with turning my lawn into a garden -- surely tomatoes can't be considered a weed? I just feel like my land ought to be earning its keep, which in my opinion grass doesn't do (at least not unless you have dogs and kids running over it) -- if I can't allow it to feed the animals, perhaps it can feed me. But I don't know if the city will allow it. Plus it would be a lot of work putting it in, and right now my health wouldn't allow me to do that. But maybe in the future....
But it employs millions of Trump voters. A pickup, a trailer, and less than $5000 in mowers, blowers, weeders and you’re making money. Five percent discount for cash; cash not check.
Me and a girlfriend are going to publish zines of weeds you can harvest and eat locally (a recipe hub!!), four sets per year, distributed on QR codes as coasters at microbreweries, with a suggested donation of $2/ zine(pdf). Hooray for weeds!
Back when I had a lawn, I used the bag on my electric lawn mower to pick up the leaves. It worked, great, it was like vacuuming the lawn. Did a way better job than raking with a rake.
So for years Mr CMD did all the yard stuff but he got to a point where he could not manage the weed whacker for the ditch that is nasty to mow. For medical reasons. So we ended up hiring a local guy to mow, etc. he does use a leaf blower but maybe we should just tell him to skip that part. Of course pay the same $$.
Honesty, I've never understood people with regular suburban sized lots needing a leaf blower and obsessing about getting every single leaf. The trees are still shedding leaves, neighbor!
Because I'm a progressive I will use my 52" leaf Sweeper, it's quiet and doesn't have an engine. I only need to tow it around the orchard with my giant diesel tractor.
One reaon urban areas want to ban two-stroke leaf blowers is that landscaping firms often start work at 7 AM when many people are still trying to sleep. Said people are upset from the loss of rest.
I prefer to use fifty gallons of drinking water to blast that last single leaf off my non-permeable asphalt driveway.
Let it lie. Spending time raking/blowing/disposing leaves may be one of the few things dumber than mowing a lawn.
Rake people! Upper body workouts for everyone!
Also pile all those leaves in your backyard where they can decompose naturally!
Are the rights for individuals to create noise and air pollution enshrined in the Constitutions? well they should be!!!!
Let me go fire up my snowmobile, so I can outrun the cross country skiers in the Wilderness Area.
These folks are soooo concerned with their precious green lawns that they are willing to blow away free fertilizer.
Mulch that shit, people! For really realz, I have built up lawns in pretty poor soils doing that, it is worth it!
Edit: mind when I say lawn, I do not necessarily mean grass XD Most of our yard is now native clover and it smells soooo good and needs so less attention plus the bees love it, that I cannot recommend it enough.
I hate autumn. It’s weeks of listening to those things running all day.
The US concept of lawns and yard care are so backwards and damaging.
Sometimes, people get it right (xeriscaping, etc.) but even then...There's always an asshole neighbor or HOA demanding you have a putting green lawn.
Yeah. I'm glad you get it that not everyone has the option to forgo a lawn. Some are required to have and maintain that grass. I prefer the more wild look, the animal friendly, natural landscaping look for a yard. But there's this city ordinance that says I can't let my grass grow taller than 6 inches, and while it doesn't say I have to have grass, it does say I can't let weeds grow, and guess who gets to decide what's a weed? (hint: not me) If it were up to me I wouldn't have a lawn. Right now I'm trying to decide if I can get by with turning my lawn into a garden -- surely tomatoes can't be considered a weed? I just feel like my land ought to be earning its keep, which in my opinion grass doesn't do (at least not unless you have dogs and kids running over it) -- if I can't allow it to feed the animals, perhaps it can feed me. But I don't know if the city will allow it. Plus it would be a lot of work putting it in, and right now my health wouldn't allow me to do that. But maybe in the future....
But it employs millions of Trump voters. A pickup, a trailer, and less than $5000 in mowers, blowers, weeders and you’re making money. Five percent discount for cash; cash not check.
Fuck lawns!
Me and a girlfriend are going to publish zines of weeds you can harvest and eat locally (a recipe hub!!), four sets per year, distributed on QR codes as coasters at microbreweries, with a suggested donation of $2/ zine(pdf). Hooray for weeds!
"Oh, blow me!"
I am not actually ok with minority people going deaf.
And how can anyone NOT hate fucking leaf blowers? They are louder than farting motorcycles. And endlessly loud.
Back when I had a lawn, I used the bag on my electric lawn mower to pick up the leaves. It worked, great, it was like vacuuming the lawn. Did a way better job than raking with a rake.
Gas-powered leaf blowers have been illegal in Los Angeles since I moved here, but I hear them every day.
Doing my part, with battery operated lawncare tools charged with solar power.
So for years Mr CMD did all the yard stuff but he got to a point where he could not manage the weed whacker for the ditch that is nasty to mow. For medical reasons. So we ended up hiring a local guy to mow, etc. he does use a leaf blower but maybe we should just tell him to skip that part. Of course pay the same $$.
Honesty, I've never understood people with regular suburban sized lots needing a leaf blower and obsessing about getting every single leaf. The trees are still shedding leaves, neighbor!
Duh, bu, but I has to do what my mommy and daddy did, in the 1950s, don't I?
Because I'm a progressive I will use my 52" leaf Sweeper, it's quiet and doesn't have an engine. I only need to tow it around the orchard with my giant diesel tractor.
- which you can trailer around, behind your SUV.
Or one could see a urologist for a $30 copay.