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"demonstrably"? Please define your terms. I have seen the people wielding these monstrosties piss around for hours chasing one or two leaves or meaninglessly
by frabbit 8y ago
"demonstrably"?
Please define your terms. I have seen the people wielding these monstrosties piss around for hours chasing one or two leaves or meaninglessly form pile of leaves that have no function other than to appear large so that the other inefficient human can stop only once to load them onto their gasoline chariot.
Most of this work could easily be either: 1) solved by refusing the scorched earth, anal standard of lawn care ; 2) good old fashioned, quiet wheel barrows and rakes operated by people paid a fair wage for manual labor instead of externalizing costs onto the rest of us.
- Abekkus 8y agoIf you want to really supercharge leaf collection, use a large tarp instead of a wheelbarrow, then carry your plunder like santa. Wheelbarrows are a waste of energy for carrying leaves.
- taeric 8y agoI have seen the same with rakes. Done the same, truthfully. Used even remotely competently, a blower beats a rake. Hands down. Now, there is a solid argument that for small yards, a rake and broom are fine. And indeed, that is what I use when doing my yard. With a large yard, though, blower with bagging lawn mower could accomplish in one day and ten bags what would take three days and forty bags. Easy.
- tinus_hn 8y agoCompanies are not going to give their employees lead blowers unless it is a lot more efficient.