Please make them stop. Why are they still legal? My neighbor has been using a mower, weed eater, and leaf blower for 5.5 hours. Nobody else ever notices the noise but my auditory sensitivities make me want to claw my skin off.
The HoA at the housing area I live at has landscapers come through every Tuesday, and their gas mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers are going nonstop from 9am to 6pm. I cannot fucking stand how much noise it makes. Even with headphones and in my room, it overpowers everything. The only way I can get a reprieve is to just take my laptop and go to the nearest library all day
Oh I hate leafblowers so fucking much. The noise is penetrating everything, and, especially with the loudest gas ones, the worker adjusts the throttle constantly. So the brain doesn’t get a second of at least monotonous noise to concentrate on something else, it instantly revs up and commands attention.
And the whole concept is so stupid. Stir up all the polluted dirt so it can get into people’s lungs, houses, and all kinds of surfaces. Blow leaves from the curb on the road, so cars can keep stirring them up, and push them back to the curb eventually. Blow the shit on the guy next door’s driveway, because poor overworked and underpaid landscaper, standing out there in the heat and sun, deafened by the fucking thing and getting lung cancer from the fumes and dust, cannot care less they just need to be done with that one driveway before getting a heatstroke.
Either get a broom or rake for small stuff around a residential property, or the sweeps-and-vacuum machine to actually clean up stuff in larger areas, like parking garages, roads, etc… ban fucking leafblowers, and ban all 2 stroke gas power tools in public places. Amen.Ban them. And if we can find the person who invented them, kick them in the balls, or vag…
Harold Weedwacker and Lyle Leafblower are the culprits! I’m no fan of doxxing but I think in this case it’s justified
Don’t forget William Whippersnipper
Johan Wheedwhakker.
It’s always some guy named Johan.
Constant tones don’t bother me as much as varying ones. Tradespeople with saws, hammers and nailguns are ao much worse.
Agreed on constant tones. I have headphones that can block out the lawn equipment pretty good. The one neighbor has a service that comes and they’re gone in 15 minutes. 3 guys with leaf blowers at the end for 90 seconds and the headphones make them sound like they’re a few blocks away. The other neighbor is trigger happy and he likes to rev it up and down and my headphones can’t keep up. I shut the windows and gnash my teeth for the 15 minutes it takes him to blow his yard.
My neighbor is over here blowing shit for an hour. Drives me nuts. Dude is OCD or something about his lawn. It looks nice, but damn. Drives me nuts.
we get to hear it all year long. the leaf blowers turn into light-weight snowblowers in the winter.
You just made the best case to not move where it snows.
Any sounds coming from outside whatever enclosure I’m in is highly triggering. Any/all lawn care devices, loud exhaust/music, arguing/fighting, etc. I hate it
My trigger is a tarp blowing in the wind loudly :| It makes me anxious in a way nothing else does.
Those gas blowers are loud as frig though.I bring earplugs to any loud-ish things though; mechanic’s shop, demolition derby, circus, …
I take ear plugs everywhere. Have loops on my keychain. Absolute lifesaver.
I can understand leaf blowers. For me it’s hair dryers. Just cannot stand the sound!
Those can be argued away replaced in the long-term, but garbage trucks are awful: intermittent hydraulic whining combined with fast and wonky plastic sounds combined with truck stop and go sounds…
Yes. Very.
They need to be banned for several reasons. The small particulates they blow up are dangerous to breathe, the noise will ruin hearing.
I took care of lawns when I was a kid, rakes and brooms worked fine, but now morbidly obese are doing lawn care.
