Shepherd wrote:

"Warren" wrote in message
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Phisherman wrote:
Anyone comment on gas-powered blowers? I'm thinking about getting
one
for leaf pickup, and more importantly, to clean driveways and
streets
from grass clippings. Any comments on Stihl blowers?

For leaf pick-up, a yard vac with a pick-up tube will work much
better
than a blower-vac that's light enough to carry. And if you're not
going
to vac them up, a rake is twice as fast as blowing them. For
cleaning
grass clippings off of the pavement, what's the matter with a broom?
A
broom is faster, too.



Spoken just like a pre-teen, urban, apartment dweller.
A dumb one too.


No. Spoken like a suburban homeowner with 7,000 square feet of lawn, and
a dozen deciduous trees, including a 60' sweatgum tree that dumps quite
a few leaves on the front lawn. (Most of the other deciduous trees are
back in a little wooded area where I leave the leaves where they fall.)

A number of times I've wanted to be like the neighbors, and get a
blower, but when I stop and think about how I can already do everything
a blower does, do it better, and take less time than with a blower, I
save my money and use it to buy some DVD's to watch after I've finished
my work, and my neighbors are still out there trying to use their
blowers.

Whether it's cleaning up after mowing, or raking leaves in the fall, I
find I have no use for a blower.

Revoke my membership in the macho home owner's club if you must, But I
really don't have the need for a penis extender... er.. a... leaf
blower.

--
Warren H.

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