two stroke engines do that so i'm not surprised.
I do like the idea of strapping a turbine to your car's exhaust to create air movement down an attached tube for yardwork.
I wonder if it's because they don't have a catalytic converter, or just can't get as much air intake as a moving car to complete combustion. Looks like they simulated driving, and not just idling for the car test.
Sadly the link with the methodology in that article is dead.
the fuck even is the point of a leafblower, just use a rake
then you put the leaves in piles instead of spreading them around for no reasonthe point of a leafblower is to sell leafblowers.
commercial landscaping is mostly wasted labor and fossil fuels, expended so fools can ape aristocracy through a commitment to someone's memory of a dream of nature while simultaneously polluting the air, the land, and the water.
don't forget actually desecrating said nature so that it can't be used productively by flora or fauna
When you are the guy who is paid 7$ an hour to clean up a whole campus full of leaves you are glad to have a leaf blower.
having done both for more months than I can count, I'd rather use a rake for 8 hours than have a 2-stroke engine on my back for 8 hours, giving me tinnitus and belching the byproducts of incomplete combustion into my lungs.
leafblowers are the shittiest form of automation and are the choice of owners rushing jobs not workers making a wage.
the choice of owners rushing jobs not workers making a wage.
Best description of capitalism I read all day
This is true, for your average suburbanite with 1/8th of an acre they should probably get their yearly workout and use the rake. That being said if you have to do significant landscaping one of those fuckers is a godsend.
i would bet most leafblowers are used to remove leaves from lawns or parking lots, neither of which should existt
but a rake actually clears the leaves out, a leafblower just blows them around
you can use explosives to crack a walnut, doesn't do the job of a nutcracker though
they're at least useful for large grounds. Yes they shouldn't be mowed in the first place but that at least makes way more sense than blowing leaves
Slip joint pliers. Went overseas and couldn't find them anywhere. No tool shop had them. Finally found an online vendor with stock. Every workman who came to my house was amazed and delighted by them.
They seem like good casual pliers, as I have one and I live in an apartment. There isn’t much to ply for me.
Slip joint pliers
What do you need them for that tongue-and-groove pliers don't do better?
A plate tamper. It does it's heavy, loud, uses a ton of fuel, and doesn't even compact whatever you are tamping.
this is correct
edit to add- lawn tools create more pollution in California than cars
its existence also renders leafs trivial, as does the USA's :kkkanada:
