• juliebean@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    a broom would work better, be quicker, and not cause as much stress to your human and animal neighbors.

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        1 hour ago

        Hands have bacteria on them that might get killed.

        I blow them away using air from my lungs.

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      5 hours ago

      You severely overestimate how long it takes to blow my driveway. Well under five minutes. I do it less than once a month. Maybe once a week in the fall, if even. I think the animal neighbors in my dirt are happy for the leaves.

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        3 hours ago

        no, i’ve just done enough, both with and without power tools, to know how to pick the right tool for the job.

        if you need to blow some dirt off a road just to make it look nicer at the end of a roadworks project, or get the bulk of the small branches out of the way after a tree trimming, and don’t care about being thorough, then sure, i guess a leaf blower will get the job done (and you’ve been running much louder and heavier equipment all day, so who gives a fuck about the noise pollution).

        but if you just want to clear some wet fallen leaves off a driveway so it looks nicer, i’d pick the pushbroom every single time. it’ll get the job done quicker, cleaner, and with far less making my neighbors hate me. having a leaf blower for personal use seems completely insane to me.