# Fucking leaf blowers. I am so sick of this goddam shit **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749 "2008-09-15T22:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/101 "2014-02-19T18:39:14Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > You two > > get a room Can’t We pooled all our spare cash together and got a leaf blower. We flipped a coin. Lance blows first. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/102 "2014-02-19T19:36:50Z")
You know what a leaf blower is really good at? Stoking a fire. A fire. Understand? ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/103 "2014-02-19T23:22:29Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > I didn’t realize this was an old thread when I saw it pop up, and I posted in it. > > WHO THE FUCK CARES HOW OLD SOMETHING IS? > > Sometimes old stuff is really valuable. > > Not a leafblower, but other stuff. ~`~`~`~PRIME INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY~`~`~`~The market for antique forum posts is about to blow up big time~`~`~`~Don't miss your chance to EARN BIG~`~`~`~ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/104 "2014-02-20T00:32:50Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > I should add that I’ve had a woman, a seriously angry woman… That was my wife! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/105 "2014-02-20T00:44:53Z")
Only if your name is William T Bwently! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/106 "2014-02-20T04:34:32Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Only if your name is William T Bwently! Bwently? Ya damn near bwoke her! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/107 "2014-02-20T09:22:14Z")
Thanks ladies and gentlemen. Please be sure to tip your waitress and the bartender. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/108 "2014-02-27T02:01:29Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > This may be a stupid question, but why don’t they put mufflers on the damn things? If we can silence a MP5, we should be able to silence a leaf blower. This might be a dumber question but why are they leaf blowers instead of suckers? I don’t understand the point of moving the leaves a few feet repeatedly when it’s got to be possible to suck them up and mulch them instead. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/109 "2014-02-27T14:51:19Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > This might be a dumber question but why are they leaf blowers instead of suckers? I don’t understand the point of moving the leaves a few feet repeatedly when it’s got to be possible to suck them up and mulch them instead. Blow the leaves into a pile and pick them up. My leaf blower has attachment that can turn the blower into a vac-mulch. Since I have conveniently located my compost pile at the bottom of an 8 foot ledge at the end of my property I just blow them over the ledge. I use my loud leaf blower once a year in the fall. I have a small battery operated ryobi for my lawn mowing. It’s about as loud as a hand held vac. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/110 "2014-02-27T16:19:06Z")
The only real purpose of a leaf blower is to annoy the hell out of neighbours with noise pollution. That it blows leaves about is just a useless by-product. Interestingly enough, the leaf blower was initially designed as a sex toy for women, but it never caught on. Why not? Because it is too damn noisy, duh! ---
**Author:** ![Geneva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d07c76/32.png) [@Geneva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geneva)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/111 "2016-05-02T23:34:52Z")
Hi Dopeville, as you may see I created this account just to post this, years late to the party, I know. But you were the first link to pop up on Google, and I’ve been listening to lawn shit for over 4 hours now and while killing someone for making loud noises sounds crazy, that is what this obnoxious insanity simply brings upon people! So I’m blowing off my steam until it ends so I can save my neighbors lives. Some points have been made for the use of leaf blowers, let me very easily refute them for you annoying, annoying people. 1. Your acre(s) of wooded area are too big for raking. ~Question, is your house a castle? If the answer is no, then you do not need to mow and blow your entire flippin property. If you moved to a house with woods and natural area, why do you spend hours making it unnatural you HEATHENS! Move to a city or condo goddamn it! I bet you don’t even use your lawn, yet it’s ready for a hundred people to make themselves a picnic. Or maybe you use it as a football field, a golf course perhaps? If your yard is wooded pretend all the parts you don’t use, which I know is most of it, is just part of the freaken woods and let the leaves do their leaf thing and degrade. 1. I can just wear earplugs. ~That would be great, except I like to use my ears. I like to watch TV, I like to listen to music in my house, I like for my pets not to act like the apocalypse is outside our window (until they make pet and baby earplugs), and I like to talk to other people in my home without yelling. I’m going to shine the brightest strobe light into your house and ask you to just put on a blindfold, thank you. 1. It’s only for a couple of hours a month/season/year. ~Yes, for you, sure. But I don’t have just one neighbor. Just around my house, I have 5, then there’s the 3 people across the street, plus all the neighbors I can hear clear as day just past them, and during the summer months, this means there’s some form of obnoxious noise going on every few minutes, everyday, to primp most of their property that no one can even see from the street, for my neighbors who except for lawn work, never actually use any of their lawns for anything. You know why I have the prettiest yard on my block AND my neighbors don’t hate me? Because I ripped up nearly all of the lawn and put in giant native plants that practically take care of themselves and fill up all the area I don’t use, I can shake some bushes and all the leaves disappear. And I could probably finish up my actual lawn with a pair of scissors and a plastic baggy, which is just the part of the yard I walk across. You know what also works great for a lawn? Floor plants that don’t grow any taller than a few inches to begin with, there’s literally hundreds of species you can choose from, yet you all want water sucking, tall growing grass for some reason. People, this whole yardwork=good looking yard thing is a sham, ain’t no landscapers in national parks and that’s the prettiest scenery you’re going to get. And if you have any sense, don’t spend $800 for something that literally blows. ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/112 "2016-05-02T23:48:11Z")
Here’s what I don’t get–out here, we get winds of 20-30 miles an hour, often gusting much higher. In the midst of this, I see “landscapers” doing their weekly mow & blow in amidst one of these windstorms. Sisyphean, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/113 "2016-05-02T23:51:34Z")
> [@4d3fect](#): > > Here’s what I don’t get–out here, we get winds of 20-30 miles an hour, often gusting much higher. In the midst of this, I see “landscapers” doing their weekly mow & blow in amidst one of these windstorms. > > Sisyphean, if you ask me. They are getting paid. They don’t give a shit if they blow the same leaf around for an hour. That’s an hour of pay. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/114 "2016-05-03T18:07:30Z")
From what I see 90% of the time the pro landscapers aren’t even blowing leaves. They just blow dirt back and forth across the road. I agree with you, though, that it’s all about another hour of pay. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/115 "2016-05-03T18:50:02Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Eh, I don’t like them either–they are quite loud. I have Mr Really Overweight Beer Gut Neighbor who lives for his riding mower and leaf blower. It’s just what he does. He mows his lawn twice a week, followed by blowing the clippings around (god knows what he thinks he’s doing with blowing the clippings around). > I figure since he’s in pretty bad shape and smokes to boot, he’ll keel over someday doing this. > > And then it will be nice and quiet. I appreciate the resurrection of this thread for allowing me to read this wonderful post. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/116 "2016-05-03T19:14:46Z")
actually didn’t la county actually ban leaf blowers for a while ? I don’t know if they still are tho ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/117 "2016-05-03T19:50:15Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > The only real purpose of a leaf blower is to annoy the hell out of neighbours with noise pollution. That it blows leaves about is just a useless by-product. > > Interestingly enough, the leaf blower was initially designed as a sex toy for women, but it never caught on. Why not? Because it is too damn noisy, duh! Brings a whole new meaning to “lips flappin’ in the wind”. ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/118 "2016-05-03T20:56:21Z")
They banned gas powered leaf blowers in my town. Now all the gardeners have gas powered generators on wheels that they plug their electric blowers into. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/119 "2016-05-03T21:01:03Z")
I have three count them THREE leaf blowers. I started with a black and decker battery powered leaf blower which is very quiet but can barely clear my driveway and deck of leaves. Its useless as are most battery powered leaf blowers. So I got a Husky hand held gas powered leaf blower, which works OK but I really like blowing those leaves around for hours at a time and the husky was starting to get heavy so… I got a Stihl backpack leaf blower that allows me to sit there and ponder the meaning of the universe as the sound of the leaf blower washes all conscious thought from my mind. Very zen. I’m currently looking for a leaf blower rider, a cross between a jet engine and Godzilla. I will use it to blow the siding off my neighbor’s house the next time he pisses me off. ---
**Author:** ![CuzIcan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@CuzIcan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuzIcan1)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749/120 "2017-11-20T05:14:48Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I’m more than willing to chance it. > Take a good hard look at the post. Think we’re going to get quality stuff out of a guy who recommends mass executions in his first message? > > This is the pit. If you don’t like it get on your big white condescending horse and get the fuck out. (See **Helena330** , I can be an asshole to the regulars too.) > > And how in the hell did he find this thread in the first place? I’m more impressed with that little move than anything that was said. Go ahead everybody, try some google-fu and see if you can get this thread to show up on the first page (using “straight dope” in the search doesn’t count) Finding this thread was easy. I just entered I hate leaf blowers for my search terms, and bingo, there it was. First page too :D. I will respond to an old thread if it’s something I’m passionate about, like hating leaf blowers. Ok, let’s make this more relevant and say I hate snow blowers too since it’s getting closer to winter. The yard crews in NC still descend in the afternoon about 1/2 hr after I lay down to take a nap, just like clockwork. Somehow they know, lol. P.S. I didn’t know horses could be condescending. I mean, they ARE taller than we are so it’s easy for them to “look down on us”, lol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-leaf-blowers-i-am-so-sick-of-this-goddam-shit/463749.md?page=7)