• BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    I’ll let my gas powered leaf blower running all day now to make your woke blower useless. Get owned, sucker

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        6 months ago

        I use things that work (even if you find them loud or annoying) because typically over engineered things (like the ‘quiet’ leafblower) are most likely very problematic and will fail. I just do not trust anything new anymore. Companies did this and forced me to stop caring about ‘innovation’ with their constant lies and fraud.

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          6 months ago

          No we obviously need more cheap plastics that will dry rot in your shed and shitty rubber grips that will turn to sticky goo in five years, as well as lowest bidder designed control circuitry with a dozen corners cut.

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            6 months ago

            Hey, don’t diss Fisher Price toys. The old ones from 40+ years ago were solid. So much so that the iconic telephone on wheels and with eyes is still around.

            Modern day crap though? Oh I’m with you!

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            6 months ago

            Maybe the garbage brands. Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, etc are very well made, and significantly more powerful than they were 5-10 years ago.

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            6 months ago

            Leafblowers are used to collect it into a pile which is then raked/shoveled into a bin. The blower is much faster and less effort than the rake at collecting everything into the pile.

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            6 months ago

            Do you think a leaf BLOWER sucks leaves up or does anything but blow them wherever you point the machine?

            Your thinking of a leaf vacuum which the article is NOT referring too…

            What was the point of your reply, I really don’t get it…

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        6 months ago

        Seeing how some very particular relatives are, I wonder if much of the gas leaf blower cloud is less “watch me stick it to the libs” and more “look at me, I’m cleaning my yard, that makes me better than you”

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          6 months ago

          And by “cleaning my yard” they really mean “blowing whatever I consider a mess onto whatever is beside my yard, or in the general vicinity for the dust”.

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          6 months ago

          I instantly imagined someone rolling coal with their leaf blower… you know it’s going to happen, even if they’re not diesel.