I have an electric leaf blower, it's pretty loud and you can definitely hear it >5m away, in fact you could probably hear it several hundred metres away. I do agree they are less disturbing overall though.

I look forward to seeing less leaf blowers in general. I don't get the obsession with getting rid of leaves. You're damaging the local ecosystem for what? The ability to watch your grass turn brown?

I commonly use an electric leafblower for work, it's loud as fuck

Yeah, it's really crazy how much quieter the electric lawn tools are. It's very noticeable.

I am an all electric human as I can be.

Electric: mower, leaf blower, edger, chainsaw, pole saw, car, tiller.

Last thing to swap isy houses heat from gas but that is a major job that requires many upgrades.

How about not having lawns in the first place?

Man I want to replace my 2 cycle backpack blower now.

My handheld (Ryobi 20v, meh) is alright for cleaning the driveway or the deck, but if I want to actually move leaves around the heard, it's weak.

I love my ego mower and my ego snowblower (although I only had one season with it so far and I think we got a total of 3 inches of snow, so....yea). An ego backpack blower would be tits.

Edit: holy shit those are expensive. But man I keep having to dump oil/gas mix because I can't possibly use it up before it goes bad and the blower loses all its gusto. But pre-mix is ridiculously expensive (but works sooo much better).

I'm so angry. I had leaves for two years and the city made me remove them like right during the nesting period. So it's gonna be another two years before I see an increase in fireflies.

Depends on the climate and the number of trees. I understand wanting to leave all the leaves, but it'll just create a muddy mess in my yard. I mulch them, it spreads through the yard. I circle around the trees and garden beds to get more leaves in those areas. Leftovers go on the composting pile.

I leave all the leaves in my yard, and mine is the only one with a lot of fireflies. It's amazing at night

Ewwww, there are bugs in my lawn‽ Kill them kill them kill them!

we got talking about how leafblowers suck.

In my experience, they tend to blow, even the good ones.

The "missing nothing" part is problematic. Many creatures rely on leaves to survive or reproduce. Fireflies are a common example. Their population has been decimated by the complete removal of leaves as standard practice

I cannot understand why people are so intent on removing every leaf from their yard

leafblowers suck

they literally do the opposite u idot 😤😡

Yep, not even all the ecosystems that were nearly settling their lives there. Rakes are more gentle

Won't work sadly, the "counter sound" can't be in phase in multiple locations because of delay and reflections. Headphones can do ANC because the ear is basically a single point so the mic can pick up exactly what you're about to hear and then compensate.

Using a speaker like that would just create double the leafblower noise.

Or leafblowers could include that as a mandatory feature

I mean, would they even hear anything over the leafblower?

Okay! I'll make sure to blast my sirens at my neighbour next time he leafblows. That totally won't get me in any trouble whatsoever lmao

My retired neighbor waits to do it on Sunday. I think he has a bottle of 2 stroke oil on his nightstand beside the tissue box

Where I used to live, they would start at 7 AM. EVERY DAY, INCLUDING THE WEEKENDS.

I was tempted to buy a leafblower for myself, follow the leafblower guy around, and just throw all the leaves back at him.

Fuck them at all hours

It's my FAMILY TRADITION to blow leaves in every day of JANUARY you don't understand god put them there to BE BLOWN

(not but really last January I heard so many leaf blowers. What are you blowing? Ghost leaves??)

I got you, I'll start it at 10pm after so you won't have to see it.

That's amazingly good and annoying at the same time.

But I hate climate change and like bees

'Cleaning' leaves is stupid as hell anyway.

Depends if you're going for most or all of the leaves. If you're just going for most and you're not incompetent, rake is easy and quick.

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE NEIGHBOR BLOWING LEAVES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA