Community Chat

[Jacie]

There is a guy across the water from us who, I swear, spends all afternoon blowing one leaf at a time down his driveway!

[esmeraldagooch]

We bought the most powerful backpack style model we could find.  200 mile an hour blast of wind that even scoots wet leaves. Great for cleaning gutters too.  Love it.

[Laura14]

---

@Jacie wrote:

There is a guy across the water from us who, I swear, spends all afternoon blowing one leaf at a time down his driveway!

---

@Jacie  His brother lives next to me!

[SilleeMee]

---

@Jacie wrote:

There is a guy across the water from us who, I swear, spends all afternoon blowing one leaf at a time down his driveway!

---

I got one neighbor like that too. He blows his stuff across the cul-de-sac  into my gutter!

[QueenDanceALot]

I wear a mask now when I do the mowing and raking.  It is certainly true that both of those and blowers stir up a lot of ****** that can make trouble if you're sensitive to all that ******.

And I am..

[QueenDanceALot]

---

@SilleeMee wrote:

I use my lawnmower with a catcher to remove leaves. Raking sometimes and this does not creat the dust a blower creates...no way.

---

We had such a dry fall that every time I mowed a whole lotta dust was flying around.

Hack, cough, sneeze (if I didn't wear a mask).  And it stinks wearing a mask when it's hot outside.  You just can't win.

Blech.

[Meowingkitty]

Out here most people don't have grass yards. Instead we have rock yards which makes a leaf blower necessary. Try raking leaves and pine needles on rock.

[Havarti]

I understand there are pros & cons to everything and empathize with your concerns. However, I must say that we use a small electric leaf blower for touch-up work and for blowing light snow off the walks & driveway. We both have bad back problems and that little $30 blower from Aldi helps us be independent in getting minor yard jobs done quickly and painlessly. It is easier on the back and the heart. There is a neighborhood association that takes care of the major work so we just need to address minor clean-up and always do it during reasonable hours. I am grateful for that little machine!

[nunya]

guess they are good until the wind blows. Mother nature wins.

I hate the sound of them

[Cakers3]

We use one with the bag attachment to get at the leaves that fall into the crevices along the walk and the patio.

Ear plugs, safety goggles should be used.  And a respiratory mask if dealing with dirt to protect against such things as animal droppings and pesticides/herbicides.

We rake our leaves otherwise and dump them into our organic bin.  Luckily our area has green organic bins for leaves, branches, etc. that it put out with our recycle bin every week.