I think it may be the "Uhdin -Uhdin" syndrome in men. It's the little boy inside all grown men that can't help coming out when we have control of a loud machine. You see it with bikers who like to sit at stop lights and make their big toys go "uhdin!..ba ba ba ba Uhdin!" over and over. The same with big boys who have loud glass-pack mufflers on their trucks or cars.

Leaf blowers, chain saws, etc- they can all go Uhdin! really well, and it makes the operator very happy, even if no one else is impressed.



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Clearly you either live in an area without deciduous trees and bushes that shed their leaves in the fall, or you don't have many in or around your yard.

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No lots of trees and lots of leaves and debris courtesy of Hurricane Zeta. My lawn guy has a top notch lawn tractor which mulches the leaves into tiny pieces. It has the benefit of nourishing the yard as well. Never had the need for a blower with a good mulching tractor.

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Are you a shift worker who needs to sleep late? If so, have you nicely mentioned it to your neighbor and requested he do his leaf blowing later in the day?

flashguy

Its an issue of using a loud device, over several hours, for a relatively small space; everybody gets that on weekends, projects get done but, holy hell, be smart about it.
This guy is just blowing shit all over creation not necessarily herding the leaves or, make any physical effort for difficult spots. I get a sense he's one who would much rather stand there and continue to blow away at one spot, instead of putting some gloves on, and reaching down to grab that wet pile. Chores need to be done but, damn, some people just seem to get after it with very little forethought.

I have 2 sthil br 800 magnums those can move bricks, I have a large city lot with 30 oak trees, takes the wife and I 30 minutes to move them all to the street. My neighbor the professor has an electric one he thinks we are killing the world.

That's my neighbor, too. He uses his friggin' blower every day, usually accomplishing nothing useful.
Yes, he dries his cars after washing them, too.
He was out there for at least five hours today. At least today he cleaned up the leaves in his yard.

I’ve got two sugar maples out front. I put the mulching plug in and grind ‘em up. I tried raking once.

My kids were all born and raised in south Florida where nobody does their own yard work.

Now we're back in north Florida and they're discovering the joys of yard work. Yard isn't super big, and I don't use a blower so it took us 3.5 hrs. to rake and bag up front / back yards. Since no one but me sees the back yard I let it go a month or so, that made the work take longer.

I'm thinking it could be worse. This ole boy is firing up his homemade turbo turbine in his driveway.


It's hard to tell how loud it is. Pretty cool, albeit inconsiderate of the neighbors unless he serves beer and allows everybody to play with it.

I guess if you don’t like it you could always offer to rake his leaves for him.

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Originally posted by gw3971:
My idiot neighbor just blew all of his leaves into my yard. Guess what I'm about to go do...

^^^^^^^^^^^^Get photographic/video evidence of him blowing his leaves onto your property. Send him a certified copy of a bill from a yardman for the cost of clean up. And if he doesn"t respond then let the hair fly with the hide. But will this set him into nucelar meltdown. .......................... drill sgt.

We rented a cabin once and the couple who owned the neighboring cabin spent a full day, 8 to 5 blowing leafs. Two leaf blowers all freaking day. It was one of the most annoying things I've ever seen or heard.

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Two leaf blowers all freaking day.

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And twnety minutes after you stop they are all back.

I chop them up with the lawn tractor.

I drive a motorcycle pretty much every day. What gets me are the idiots that are at the roads edge, blowing leaves & debris & ignore the fact that people are driving on the road they are blowing near. Irritating enough if you are in an enclosed vehicle, but rude & dangerous for someone on a motorcycle.