Two-stroke engines need to be banned for most applications. Electric equipment only. And honestly even then I feel like you should need a permit to make that amount of noise, and it should be like the rules for animal research, you need a plan to replace or minimize where possible.
Do you really need to be weed whacking along that fence? Is it actually gonna be a problem? If so, do you really need to be doing it weekly? Would monthly suffice?
Years ago, a particular most environmentally conscious leftist on Hexbear got really mad when I talked about how ruinous and wasteful two-stroke leaf blowers were. They said that rakes were impossible to use in their particular little lot of land, that electric leaf blowers were insufficient (and that I should buy them one if I wanted them to use one) and emphasized “you don’t fucking know my situation”
I never had a situation where rakes were insufficient. Even if you want to remove leaves from long grass (for whatever reason), a rake with long prongs is sufficient. Blowers are just about convenience and speed. I hate them with passion, as you cannot block out the noise, even with a closed window and head between pillows. And while the electric ones are a bit better they’re still way too noisy.
I don’t understand it either why people are so keen on disrupting natural nutrient cycles by removing leaves completely but some municipalities even require it (probably still the bourgeois brainworms of showing off how much land you can waste).
The stench of two-stroke gas motors, especially from leafblowers and lawnmowers, produces many times as much effective pollution as a full-size SUV.
Two-stroke engines need to be banned for most applications. Electric equipment only. And honestly even then I feel like you should need a permit to make that amount of noise, and it should be like the rules for animal research, you need a plan to replace or minimize where possible.
Do you really need to be weed whacking along that fence? Is it actually gonna be a problem? If so, do you really need to be doing it weekly? Would monthly suffice?
Years ago, a particular most environmentally conscious leftist on Hexbear got really mad when I talked about how ruinous and wasteful two-stroke leaf blowers were. They said that rakes were impossible to use in their particular little lot of land, that electric leaf blowers were insufficient (and that I should buy them one if I wanted them to use one) and emphasized “you don’t fucking know my situation”
I never had a situation where rakes were insufficient. Even if you want to remove leaves from long grass (for whatever reason), a rake with long prongs is sufficient. Blowers are just about convenience and speed. I hate them with passion, as you cannot block out the noise, even with a closed window and head between pillows. And while the electric ones are a bit better they’re still way too noisy.
convenience? you blow your leaves across to your neighbors. then they come out with their leafblowers and blow it back.
back and forth forever.
In suburbanite’s mind that’s more convenient than raking the leaves from side to side
And why are you removing the leaves from the grass in the first place? The grass is a great place for leaves to be. It’s where they belong.
If you’re using it to move leaves from pavement to the grass I understand more, but we’ve had a tool for that for thousands of years: A broom.
I don’t understand it either why people are so keen on disrupting natural nutrient cycles by removing leaves completely but some municipalities even require it (probably still the bourgeois brainworms of showing off how much land you can waste).
If your yard is too big for you to rake,
then it’s too big for you to own.
That’s the party line.