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2-strokes period, though I kinda wish California had given a longer grace period for 4-stroke engines (maybe add cats) because electric mowers, especially riders, are bloody expensive.
edit: there's a huge sound difference between 2-stroke & electric blowers
@eniko@grumpygamer they also don't do like, anything? I used to rake the leaves for my parents as a kid/teen and one year they got a leaf blower. I thought it would save like hours of time but after blowing all the leaves around for a bit I couldn't quite figure out the point and went back to the rake.
It was electric, though, so at least there was that.
@eniko@grumpygamer My neighbor runs a landscaping business (which is problematic in many ways - noise being one of them). He uses the leaf blower for grass (why????) and I have literally seen the guy standing on his roof pointing it at his trees to get the leaves off quicker than letting them naturally fall off.
It's like even holding a leaf blower just sucks the intelligence right out of people or something.
@grumpygamer also those big gas lawnmowers, I have a lot of older neighbors so my street is a cacophony of giant ride-on lawnmowers for like 6 hours a day from around 5 in the morning around 3-4 days a week, they don't even have that much grass, they just cut it DAILY to keep it super short....and go over it a few times because honestly I think they just have nothing better to do. Thankfully between my privacy fence and insulation I can block the noise but it's obnoxious.
@grumpygamer fun fact: since they obsess about cutting it so short and nobody up here has sprinklers (due to how much it normally rains) most of their lawns browned out completely from the drought....lack of crops like clover mixed in and extremely short grass meant their lawns couldn't retain water and burnt/dried easily, meanwhile my "mow a few times each summer" low growing bee-lawn is still vibrant green.
@grumpygamer Went looking for a hedge trimmer yesterday and they were out of stock, instead there was a sale on leaf blowers and I thought "fuck all these guys"
@grumpygamer When autumn started last year I saw electric leaf blowers for the first time. And I really wonder why the heck these things still work with fossil fuel!? This thing was pretty quiet.
I hope we will see more and more of these things so that the air and noise pollution is reduced.
@grumpygamer they are the bane of my attempts to sleep a bit more, considering they are used by the local authorities here in Madrid very early in autumn.
@grumpygamer Luckily, they aren’t all the same. Battery-powered electric leaf blowers are quiet enough that people inside house can’t hear them, and decent electric ones work just as well as the noisy, polluting gas-powered ones.
@grumpygamer What is the point of them anyway? A dude blows the leaves into the gutter, then the next morning a street sweeper truck goes through and blows them back out again.
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