What's the point of leaf blowers?

[Lighthouse]

I've got one of the council wombles wandering around outside my flat blowing leaves off the path with one of those petrol powered blowers. Seems like the most pointless exercise known to man. It stinks, it's noisy as f**k and it doesn't acheive anything. In half an hours' time, a light breeze will have blown through and the path will look exactly the same.

[Jones91]

easier than raking?

[Lighthouse]

There's no point in raking either if you're just going to rake stuff into a hedge, 6 inches away from the path.

[hamster]

Leaf blowers suck

[Spudders]

you are getting confused with a vacuum

 

(Which would be a better way of clearing them up, rather than blowing them from one place to another!)

[Junction 9]

With electric leaf blowers, there is a certain irony about the fact we are buliding wind farms.

[Hamilton Saint]

Leaf blowers - what a monstrous invention!

[SuperMikey]

Their sole purpose is to wake me up at 8am when I only crawled into bed at 4am.

[scotty]

Their sole purpose is to wake me up at 8am when I only crawled into bed at 4am.

 

well whose fault is that?

[SuperMikey]

well whose fault is that?

 

It's society's fault.

[Saint-scooby]

I have a petrol leaf blower, its a nice one, its blows and sucks, but I like it just to blow.

[hamster]

Assuming that you are younger than te council bloke perhaps you should stop moaning and respect your ELDERs.

 

lol

[Viking Warrior]

Your be disingenuious lighthouse. Its a job given to folk to feel part of society . Leaf blowers are an important part of society.

if they were not there people would slip on leafs and hurt themselves and then sue councils making a fortune for the ambulance chasing lawyers and a few bob for the accident prone

[thesaint sfc]

They're for leafs that like a good blow.

[Crispypie]

i thought they were for blowing leaves into next doors garden!

[scotty]

i thought they were for blowing leaves into next doors garden!

 

oh, its you, is it?

[Lets B Avenue]

Its a darn sight easier than getting down on your knees and taking a deep breath.

[dubai_phil]

This leaf blowerism is out of order.

 

The most critical use of a leaf blower is to blow fallen leaves off of a green just before I putt.

 

All the energy to build them, the materials mined from the earth to create them the money paid to purchase them the carbon emissions created while they are shipped from their factories in China the transport of the staff to the leaf blowing site by trained drivers the fuel used to power them that can never be recycled and of course the vast sums of money paid to the highly skilled workers who use them the even vaster salaries paid to the trainers who train the leaf blowers and then of course the Health & Safety staff who have to supervise the leaf blowers and to ensure that they do not cause injury and have to write reports that go to managers who have to make regulations that have to be passed by lawyers so that they can be passed up to the legislators to pass laws as to the use of leaf blowers which have to be enforced by the Police and the Health & Safety Officers who have to have managers who have to check that the amended regulations are applied and of course not forgetting the local council publilc relations and marketing staff who have to promote the use of them and the local newspapers who have to cut down trees to provide paper to print the efficiency ratings of one departments leaf blowers over another councils leaf blowers and to explain the ROI from leaf blowing so that the budget for leaf blowing gets approved.

 

Meanwhile you dopey tax payers are picking up the bill for the use of a machine that simply moves a problem from one place to another whilst you cut billion pound airplanes into pieces and make the Armed Forces redundant in the middle of combat operations.

[Barney Trubble]

In my day I was given a big shovel and a big bag. I don't recall it being very hard to do so no need for a leaf blower.

[hamster]

Next time it happens call sPecial branch. No good moaning to us, you're barking up the wrong tree.

[Guest Dark Sotonic Mills]

Next time it happens call sPecial branch. No good moaning to us, you're barking up the wrong tree.

 

Leaf it out Hammy; if you keep beeching on you won't be poplar any more.

[scotty]

Leaf it out Hammy; if you keep beeching on you won't be poplar any more.

 

oakay.

[dubai_phil]

Ash far as I'm concerned you lot go blow leaves, I'm off down the Beech tomorrow

[hamster]

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Oh, that old Chestnut! Us Limeys couldn't care less what Yew think Phil so keep your Conk(er) out of this please.

[Jonnyboy]

I have one in my van, it is a godsend!