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.
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.
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.
Best description of capitalism I read all day
fair, i was more coming at it from a do your own yard thing
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