I fucking hate leafblowers

Loud noise polluting, gas spewing pieces of shit

Discuss.

Mine is electric.

Get an electric blower. The rechargeable ones are competent.

They give relatively quiet blow jobs.

I've never owned a gas leaf blower because I hate 2-stroke engines. I replaced my chainsaws with electric several years ago as well.

Same.

Only gas yard tool I have left is my mower. But hopefully not for long.



After that everything will be Kobalt EXCEPT for a B&D weed eater that won’t fucking die.

Same. After I bought a new one several years ago, I decided that when it died I'd buy an electric one.

Of course it's still soldiering on.

I tried a Lowe's kobalt lawn mower. It was pricey but only did an adequate job. It didn't create enough vacuum to pick up leaves.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-80-...21-in-Cordless-Electric-Lawn-Mower/1000915068

A hundred dollars in parts put the 20 year old Toro back to work. It needed a transmission, blade, control cables. Engine won't die.

I used to have an electric leaf blower, it did a good enough job, but I had to use an extension chord. I'm sure that's probably changed by now.

I have Ryobi battery powered tools. Blower. Trimmer. Hedges. Works fine. We banned gas here too recently but I’m not sure how gardeners are supposed to comply? Purchase dozens of batteries (and new blowers) and charge them all overnight and hope the supply lasts the day? Plus their gas powered ones are usually way more powerful than the battery ones.

I bought my Mom a Ryobi trimmer, hedger, and blower along with a few batteries, the 18 volt 4ah. One battery is enough to trim all her hedges or trim the lawn or blow off the driveway, back patio, front patio and walkway as well as the road in front of the hose and her house is on a cul-de-sac. If doing all three it takes about 2 batteries to get it all done.

I don't hate leafblowers. I do get pissed off when our institute is supposedly cash-strapped but is still paying a bunch of hi-vis wearing doofuses (doofi?) to be out and about with them ON A FUCKING WINDY DAY WHEN THEY'LL BE BACK IN THE ROAD WITHIN 15 MINUTES.

I exclusively use the Leafblower setting on my white noise machine to fall asleep.

I have a very small mowable section of my yard. Basically just that hill area beside the camper and area under the camper.



And yes. I am Alabamaing Seattle with a trailer on blocks in my front yard.

Some friends were gonna be homeless so we are letting stay in our downstairs kitchen (basically a small studio) and use my tools and power and stuff while they gut and rebuild the camper.

You can take the boy from the country, but you can't take the country from the boy. Yee haw, hell yeah!

Is "trailer" Alabamian for motorhome?

Not just any kind of hate mind you, but hate having sex. That means it's a special kind of hate.