Pet peeve of the day: leaf blower army outside my apartment

[Runcible Spoon]

poor guys are just doing what management tells them, but as soon as they manage to get something resembling a pile built up, they miscalculate the air flow and blow the leaves all over again. I swear a good old fashioned rake would be more efficient. Plus my hair and clothes wouldn't smell like exhaust fumes just by walking past them. Seems like a waste of fuel to me unless perhaps you are a master at it. :shrug:

[skygazer]

1. My dad used to put my brother and I to work raking leaves

I liked it. The leaves smelled nice and it was kind of zen-like to just be raking, and making patterns in the grass with the rake. And when we got a great big pile, we'd jump in it (and scatter leaves all over the place so we'd have to rake them up again).

I hate leaf blowers. I have more sympathy for snowblowers - shoveling snow is hard work.

[Runcible Spoon]

2. yeah exactly. Leaf raking was a fun thing to do when I was a kid...

now, snow shoveling...that is pure labor camp gulag shit. Fortunately, our driveway was big enough to justify a guy with a plow coming in to take care of it. We were not spared shoveling the porches and the walkway to the barn, however. Another hell: taking a sledgehammer to the frozen stream when it got too thick for the horses to paw through themselves. As shitty as that is, it sure beat having to haul buckets out by hand to water them!

[skygazer]

3. I hauled the buckets

:)

Sounds like we had similar experiences. We had a guy with a snowplow too but no stream. So I had to put buckets on my toboggan and haul them out to the horse pasture 3 times a day.

I also invented snowboarding though I've gotten no credit for it. x( Because after dropping off the buckets, I'd stand on my toboggan and ride it back down the hill - much fun indeed.

:hi:

[billyskank]

4. I always thought a leaf blower was the most ridiculous of tools.

Blind belief that any problem can be solved if you just burn enough petrol doing it. :eyes:

[AlCzervik]

5. i hate those things but i miss leaves, i had a pitiful few this year but the tree is all done now.

the plum tree in back will start losing leaves soon but those are small, i don't rake them up, they just fall in the mulch and biodegrade.

[Darth_Kitten]

6. Would you prefer snow and the sound of snowplows?

;) Love fall and love leaves, too bad fall is way too short here. :hug: