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A leafblower rage...
http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. Jock -- 'A fanatic is a waverer who made a decision', G. Bomans |
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"Jock" wrote in message ... A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. Jock -- 'A fanatic is a waverer who made a decision', G. Bomans I would suggest thumping somebody for anything is extreme. I worked shiftwork for 15 years and copped a lot of being woken up by building and loud music around my house. Building I couldn't do much about and for the music I reasoned with the guy. I have a blower and use it on jobs but it is usually over in a short time and I do it after 8am in the morning. My only complaint would be those that use blowers to blow lawn clippings and leaves out into a street that was otherwise clean before they arrived. My own work ethics is to leave a customers house in a better state than what it was when I arrived. I wish others would do the same. Rick |
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Jock wrote:
What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. I hate them, mainly because my neat freak husband has 3 of the damn things and every afternoon around 4.30, he thoroughly blow-vacs our front and back yard and then blow-vacs the road outside out place for good measure. One day I am going to wrap one of them around his neck, not because of the noise or anything like that, purely because of his damn obsession with ridding our yard and the road of every leaf he can see. |
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agreed jock,
the obsesive way some use them they are the bain of suburbia, we have an electric one as we have rather a lot of cemnt to keep cleanish so about once or twice a month we use the vac part of it, and always after around 9am through the week day hopefully so as not to distrupt anyone too much. On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:32:09 GMT, "Jock" wrote: snipped With peace and brightest of blessings, len & bev -- "Be Content With What You Have And May You Find Serenity and Tranquillity In A World That You May Not Understand." http://www.lensgarden.com.au/ |
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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 12:32:09 GMT, "Jock" wrote:
A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. I love my leafblower. |
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"Jock" wrote: A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. I wonder what time of day it was operating? They are dreadful things, invariably operated at the time of day that will cause most annoyance to the neighbours. I can understand professional gardeners (or owners of large properties) using them, but a broom should be adequate for the rest of us. Much healthier for the user and the environment. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled." Kerry Cue |
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"Jock" wrote in message
A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. I live where no-one could hear one even if I chose to use one but can only imagine how appalling they must be in suburbia. I don't own one and nor will I ever. I use a rake and I have at least a 2 acre garden. If I, as a woman of nearer 60 than 50, and having had 2 differing primary cancers and all the treatment that entails can use a rake, I keep wondering what is wrong with people who need to use a blower. |
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"Barbara" wrote in message
Jock wrote: What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. I hate them, mainly because my neat freak husband has 3 of the damn things and every afternoon around 4.30, he thoroughly blow-vacs our front and back yard and then blow-vacs the road outside out place for good measure. One day I am going to wrap one of them around his neck, not because of the noise or anything like that, purely because of his damn obsession with ridding our yard and the road of every leaf he can see. Don't hurt your husband. If you live in suburbia, one of the neighbours will probably do it for you if his usage of them is a frequent as you say. |
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:10:26 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
I don't own one and nor will I ever. I use a rake and I have at least a 2 acre garden. If I, as a woman of nearer 60 than 50, and having had 2 differing primary cancers and all the treatment that entails can use a rake, I keep wondering what is wrong with people who need to use a blower. It's a matter of time. It would take me 3 hours to sweep up with a broom. The blower takes 20 minutes. |
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"Jock" wrote in message
... A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. me too. kylie |
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Jock wrote:
A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. They have one saving grace; they provide a range of cheap (if noisy) ICE for projects. |
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While we're at it, here's a video on Youtube to see what sort of unnecessary
noise is created in the pursuit of.. er, (in this case), whatever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlqXTTi3i1I It's amazing. Jock "Jock" wrote in message ... |A leafblower rage... | http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p | | What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon | they are a bane on society. | Jock | | -- | 'A fanatic is a waverer who made a decision', G. Bomans | | |
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"Jock" wrote in message ... A leafblower rage... http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. Jock I hate the things. What a waste of non-renewable energy. Amanda |
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"Jock" wrote in message A leafblower rage...http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon they are a bane on society. I couldn't agree more about these abhorrent things......yes I have one, and I use it very sparingly, preferring a rake, a broom and paying a gardener! However every weekend the whole street is treated to hours of these as the two men who live in houses over the road are both lawn obsessed and loathe each other with passion. Each, in turn, spends an average of 4 hours loving their lawns. They mow lawns that should take 20 minutes in about an hour, and then proceed to whipper snip edges for about 2 hours, alll the while attempting to play Auld Lang Syne on the throttle of the urban bane. Then in order to clean up the almighty mess that they've made out comes the blower vac and we're all treated to another hour of Auld Lang Syne as each individial errant blade of grass is blown onto a previously clean roadway. Heaven forbid that either of these perpetrators pick up a broom or rake! It is widely believed that the world will end if they should mow and blow at the same time as each other. To add insult to injury one of these persons has a tree which as it sheds its leaves, they blow directly into my garden (think wilderness rather than manicured). It must annoy him that I decline to waste energy picking up his leaves, instead waiting for the opposing breeze to take them back from whence they came. This same person is very much the reason why bore owners in Perth are now facing restrictions - each summer evening at 6pm on the dot(and prior to restrictions it was all year long - rain hail or shine) he is out beginning a watering ritual that can take more than 4 continuous hours. No - his retic is not on a timer, it is all manually operated thus he knows that he is watering, watering watering. Given that more than 50% of the water falls on the street (easily seen by the bore stain) one has had ample cause to wonder at the state of his brain cell. One has also had ample time to ponder if it had ever dawned on this individual that less water might mean less mowing on his deeply spongy grass. Ahhh...........feel much better now Joanne in Perth |
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