#leaf blower

[coldones66]

Idk where this bit was going 😂

[catfindr]

[sportsandlaughs]

[dailybehbeh]

Behbeh

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio thumps away on his table top and throws on tune after tune, tucks into sent in treats and slurps away on a large cup of 'tay'. Weatherwise we're just riding the tail of Storm Ernesto ... so no point in grabbing 'the umbrella', best to just hold onto your hat. The traffic lady warns drivers of debris on the roads before kicking back with chocolate and the man on the radio to the strains of Midnight Cowboy.

Today's groaner: What is a sock's favourite sci-fi film? ... The Toe-minator ;-D badoom tish ... here all week!!

Yep, you've guessed it, the shiny metropolis is calling once more. Thought I'd throw up a thrilling picture of one of the car parks I get to sit in. More interesting than some of them, but oh good grief, anything that's planted is done in a line. Regimented evergreens as a nod to the rural.

Very soon there'll be the endless sound of the leafblowers both here and at home as the trees have the temerity to shed their finery. The Emerald Isle is as obsessed with those as lawnmowers. I watch with wry amusement as people struggle up and down with the huge leafblower 'backpack' like strange bumble bees ... performing crazed pattern after crazed pattern as the leaves blow this way and that. Must be the fumes.

There are woodlands nearby and, one day, I fully expect to find these same people, leafblowers strapped on, as they go for their orderly Autumn walks. My childhood memories are of kicking through the leaves, hearing them crackle beneath my feet ... can't help but wonder what memories the leafblower lunatics have.

Thursday, Thursday, Thursday and old Frankie boy is singing about a summer breeze ... the summer, such as it was, is slipping away. I'd best grab another coffee ...

[cazort]

A lot of landscapers nowadays don't understand the proper etiquette surrounding gas-powered leafblowers. If you are operating a leafblower, and someone is walking up the sidewalk towards where you are blowing, proper etiquette is for you to immediately stop blowing, and point the blower away from the person walking. Place the blower in the back of your truck, and fully secure it. Then drive to the nearest junkyard and dispose of it. You may even recoup some of the cost of it as most blowers have some recyclable parts that may have value as scrap. Then drive to a local store and buy a rake and broom, place them in your truck and secure it, and then return to the site and use the rake and/or broom from then on.

You can then continue using rakes and brooms even when other people are within earshot.

I hope you have found this guide useful!

And you are welcome!

I am glad to share etiquette advice to help landscapers have a positive relationship with their community, keeping communities quiet and free of pollution, while earning an honest living.

P.S. you can earn more money this way too, as you will take longer to rake the property, and can thus charge for more hours of work between all your clients. Also you save on gas costs, and in the long-run, equipment costs as rakes and brooms are much cheaper. You may even prevent a murder, for example, if a neighbor is driven mad by your blowing and chooses to murder you, your client, and/or other members of your team.

[wachinyeya]

Students Invent Leaf Blower Silencer Attachment–Corporation Expects to Be Selling Them Soon https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/students-invent-leaf-blower-silencer-attachment-corporation-expects-to-be-selling-them-soon/

[yourcrazygirlokris]

WATERTHROWER

FLAMETHROWER

AIRTHROWER

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[unlikely-adversaries-bracket]

R1M24

@throat-goat-gauntlet - link to poll

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[maklodes]

Stop blowing leaves. Yards beneath deciduous trees were never meant to be uniformly devoid of leaves. Want to remove leaves anyway for a laugh? We have tools for that. They're called "rakes." "Let me make a terrible loud noise that carries throughout the suburb on a pleasant Sunday fall morning. Let me run an unregulated two-stroke gasoline engine that creates 20 times as much carbon monoxide as a modern full-sized pickup truck. " -- statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged. Etc.

[fr0ppychair]

my neighbor thought my dog was racist because she was barking at some landscapers (who are Mexican I think) but like no, she just doesn't like leafblowers

[ichigoporky]

today i decided to finally clean my garden! 🍂 there are so many leaves!

[donttouchmylasagna]

Brave lion cosplaying Bubba.

Commission for CubEmperor

[sportsandlaughs]

[kittycatvlogs24]

Y’all im trying to sleep right now its 3am and one of my neighbors is using a leaf blower 😭😭😭