Obligatory “leave the leaves” if you can. Insects and small animals use the leaf litter and they’re good for soil creation (thanks, worms and fungi). Wondering why you don’t see as many lightning bugs/fireflies nowadays? Leave your leaves and they’ll have places to lay their eggs. Avoid becoming a member of the cult of the lawn!
I’m so angry. I had leaves for two years and the city made me remove them like right during the nesting period. So it’s gonna be another two years before I see an increase in fireflies.
Ewwww, there are bugs in my lawn‽ Kill them kill them kill them!
Depends on the climate and the number of trees. I understand wanting to leave all the leaves, but it’ll just create a muddy mess in my yard. I mulch them, it spreads through the yard. I circle around the trees and garden beds to get more leaves in those areas. Leftovers go on the composting pile.
I leave all the leaves in my yard, and mine is the only one with a lot of fireflies. It’s amazing at night
People who unironically think this should go clean some leaves themselves and see how long they stick with the rake.
It’s always so much easier to tell other people how to do their job.
But I hate climate change and like bees
Depends if you’re going for most or all of the leaves. If you’re just going for most and you’re not incompetent, rake is easy and quick.
is a blower more fun, yes, do i drive a tank instead of a bike because of that? no
I look forward to seeing more electric leaf blowers. Sure they have a bit of an annoying high pitched whine when you’re close by, but you’re not going to hear it more than 5 meters away. I’ve also been seeing more electric lawn mowers which are also much quieter.
Yeah, it’s really crazy how much quieter the electric lawn tools are. It’s very noticeable.
I look forward to seeing less leaf blowers in general. I don’t get the obsession with getting rid of leaves. You’re damaging the local ecosystem for what? The ability to watch your grass turn brown?
Hi, leaf pilled person here. I still have a leaf blower to get them off my driveway. IN FACT! I use a leaf blower to get them off the pavement and onto the ground where they’ll be beneficial. They’re still a useful piece of equipment.
a broom would work better, be quicker, and not cause as much stress to your human and animal neighbors.
Way to out yourself as someone who has never done manual labor.
The last part may be true, but the first two are definitely not.
I have an electric leaf blower, it’s pretty loud and you can definitely hear it >5m away, in fact you could probably hear it several hundred metres away. I do agree they are less disturbing overall though.
Where is the sound coming from to make it that noisy? Is it more the engine or the woosh?
It’s basically a big hair dryer, there’s a big fan in it
Da whoosh
I commonly use an electric leafblower for work, it’s loud as fuck
I am an all electric human as I can be.
Electric: mower, leaf blower, edger, chainsaw, pole saw, car, tiller.
Last thing to swap isy houses heat from gas but that is a major job that requires many upgrades.
Man I want to replace my 2 cycle backpack blower now.
My handheld (Ryobi 20v, meh) is alright for cleaning the driveway or the deck, but if I want to actually move leaves around the heard, it’s weak.
I love my ego mower and my ego snowblower (although I only had one season with it so far and I think we got a total of 3 inches of snow, so…yea). An ego backpack blower would be tits.
Edit: holy shit those are expensive. But man I keep having to dump oil/gas mix because I can’t possibly use it up before it goes bad and the blower loses all its gusto. But pre-mix is ridiculously expensive (but works sooo much better).
Using the same principle as noise cancelling headphones, you could just blast an equally loud counter sound to negate the blower’s noise.
But where’s the fun in that?
Won’t work sadly, the “counter sound” can’t be in phase in multiple locations because of delay and reflections. Headphones can do ANC because the ear is basically a single point so the mic can pick up exactly what you’re about to hear and then compensate.
Using a speaker like that would just create double the leafblower noise.
I mean, would they even hear anything over the leafblower?
Or leafblowers could include that as a mandatory feature
Okay! I’ll make sure to blast my sirens at my neighbour next time he leafblows. That totally won’t get me in any trouble whatsoever lmao
Our park ranger is a nice guy and I help him out from time to time, and we got talking about how leafblowers suck.
He said that yes they’re loud, but they are remarkably efficient at moving leaves into a nice pile, missing nothing
The “missing nothing” part is problematic. Many creatures rely on leaves to survive or reproduce. Fireflies are a common example. Their population has been decimated by the complete removal of leaves as standard practice
I cannot understand why people are so intent on removing every leaf from their yard
we got talking about how leafblowers suck.
In my experience, they tend to blow, even the good ones.
if your leafblower suck, there’s a switch for that. read the fucking manual before complaining
Forgot about this joke.
leafblowers suck
they literally do the opposite u idot 😤😡
no mebe u r 🫵
Yep, not even all the ecosystems that were nearly settling their lives there. Rakes are more gentle
TIL wind kills bugs
Unlike humans, who tolerate tornadoes blowing through their neighborhood without missing a beat.
I don’t mind leafblowers but don’t start at 8 AM IN THE MORNING
My retired neighbor waits to do it on Sunday. I think he has a bottle of 2 stroke oil on his nightstand beside the tissue box
I got you, I’ll start it at 10pm after so you won’t have to see it.
