blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower.
One does not simply blow wet leaves with a leaf blower. It is folly.
I once thought so, but in my experience with maples and fir needles it works really well. Much easier than raking for wet stuff. Of course, the correct way is to wait until all of the leaves have fallen (enjoy Autumn to its fullest) and then round them up once for the whole season. Every week or two is why everyone hates leaf blowers.
Or just leave them. Leaves are good, people. If you can, leave your leaves.
Yeah, in the yard, though, not the driveway, that’s all.
Ever tried that Leaf Blower Idle game?
Because the day already sucks so much…
Are you in IL? I just saw my neighbor doing that, but he has dementia. I think there are to many people who want a manicured lawn. Personally I don’t see why so many people like that.
Because they have absolutely nothing better going on in their life.
For a while I had retired neighbors on two sides of the house who insisted on mowing multiple times a week. Their grass would be so freaking dead and brown by late summer even with watering, meanwhile my lawn which I mow every 2-3 weeks depending on the season (late summer it grows slower so I give it longer) never needed a lick of extra water and is still green today
if I ever live somewhere with a garden, I’m ripping out the grass and planting a dandelawn.
I tried making my front lawn all wild flowers. The town had other ideas and sent me a warning to mow my lawn even though at that point my lawn was solid flowers. It is now a mix of dried out grass, sandy bare spots, and cigarette butts from the sidewalk traffic going to the Casino across the street. I tried watering my lawn the first year here and my water bill was nuts.
Or moss!
Moss is cool too!
I’ve got quite a lot of moss in my backyard. The only downside is less traction. My backyard isn’t super hilly, but it’s no where near flat.
I really hate leaf blowers.
I really like turtles
I had a neighbor for a while that ran his gas blower for a couple hours EVERY DAY. I think he had some sort of PTSD trauma and it soothed him.
He also dug holes in his backyard to bury leaves. Quite a …… character.
Would that make them compost faster?
I don’t think so. And it was a LOT of leaves. We’re talking big holes. He would dig a hole, put in the leaves, and stand there with a string trimmer, blasting away at them. Then cover them up. It was especially odd because the city collects them for free. All you have to do is blow/rake them into a pile on the street.
Probably not, air is an ingredient in compost. It’s why compost barrels spin.
My neighbor will blow them into my driveway (which is higher than his so it’s a never ending battle) and then he’ll walk between my house and the house on his other side blowing leaves to the other side of the street. He wastes so much gas every day, I would find it funny if it weren’t infuriating. Like, who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore?
who the heck even buys gas leaf blowers anymore
Gas blowers are about half the purchase price. And in this ‘first thing I looked up’ match up, are slightly better speced and higher rated.
The issue I have with these is the parts and batteries are are awful for recycling. An engine is all metal and once the oil is drained there are no hazardous to nature parts. Plastic is made from oil so are these environmentally friendly? Especially if the batteries only last a few years?
You are overlooking the pollution the emit while running, which is considerable, especially 2-stroke ones. A gas leaf blower used for an hour emits the same air pollution as driving 1,100 miles (source).
And the fact that that oil has to be changed periodically. They also have many plastic parts AND small engines have a notoriously high failure rate when used with ethanol fuels.
Meanwhile, the electric motors in battery ones basically run forever and properly cared for the batteries last many years, after which they can be recycled.
I just get corded electric. Never have to worry about it running out of juice that way. Though, it does mean there are limits to what you can get.
I’ll take the one with less maintenance anyway. I wouldn’t even need to buy the battery for this because that’s the same one my lawnmower uses
Good thing gas is so cheap…
It is cheaper now than a few years ago.
It’s also more expensive than a few years ago, just depends on how many years ago you mean. Either way, it doesn’t make it more economical than electricity.
Or you can just buy a cheaper one.
Honestly, it’s just fun to blow leaves or snow. It’s a mindless puttering activity that lets you improve your home area and be mildly active.
Unfortunately what happens is people’s general tendency to think about themselves and nobody else. So they’re self-satisfied in their reasons for being out there, not thinking about the dude next door that works nights and can’t sleep, and even his construction-grade noise headphones don’t help. Or the dude that just wants to listen to jazz quietly.
The leaf blower people are well-meaning people with mild mental illness who are just selfish enough to realize their home/self care is annoying others. e: A lot of times the guy just needs to get the F away from their spouse. I’ve lived near leaf blower people and they’re invariably older married (sometimes retired) men. Never women.
I feel like a rake would be a better alternative on all accounts
A leaf blower is far superior for getting leaves out of corners and other spaces smaller than a rake, especially if the leaves are small or falling apart.
I have an electric one that isn’t that loud, and I generally use it for edges and then rake up the open spaces.
Plus, you can leave it in awkward places as a trap!
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I miss the internet being like this. I like this
The leaves must blow.
Kwisatz Daderach
“they must not be scattered, mess is the mind killer”
54°F isn’t cold.
That actually depends entirely on where you’re at. That would be positively tropical to someone in Minnesota, but to someone in Arizona I almost can guarantee you that would be freezing.
Yea but the rain is cold
Rain is not necessarily cold by the time it lands, it has a certain ability to sap and dissipate heat as it evaporates. The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you, but they feel cold because they are very good and transfering heat away from you.
If youre into pedantic debates about properties of molecules, I suggest looking into why water is not wet, and the fan base
Mfer the OP said the rain was cold. Maybe it was fn cold lol
It aint that deep bruh
rain is ambient temperature-ish and water isn’t wet! fight me! (jk)
The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you
Yes they are; they’re not warm blooded mammals, and they’re at the lowest level in the house, where the coldest air is.
they are very good and transfering heat
Ceramics generally have poor thermal conductivity. Metal is a good conductor of heat.
They have poor thermal conductivity compared to something like metal, but still much better than fabrics or wood. They also have a high thermal mass.
Tiles are a bit cooler not because they are lower in the room, but because they easily lose heat to the air. They aren’t that much cooler though, and a piece of wood the same temp would feel much warmer.
You can hold a ceramic tile in your hand and apply a blowtorch to the other side. They’re better insulators than conductors. That’s why you see ceramics used for insulating hot food bowls from wooden tables, or a more extreme example, ceramic tiles on re-entry vehicles. Ceramic is not a good conductor of heat.
Wood is about 0.1 W/mK, ceramics about 1 W/mK, and copper is about 400 W/mK.
The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you
Yes, quite literally they are colder. You can measure this with a thermometer. A more apt comparison would be ceramic floor vs wood flooring, or ceramic vs air temp, not ceramic vs skin temp. Your skin is absolutely warmer than a ceramic floor tile.
Tiles do not feel cooler because they “easily lose heat to the air”. They are the same temperature as the other flooring in your house. They feel cooler because of thermal mass, which you’ve identified. Your body can warm the low mass of fabric or wood faster than it can ceramic, thus those materials feel less cold when you step on them.
If you’re going to be pedantic, at least do it right.
I cannot discern the difference between my arguments and yours. You just used more words? We’re saying the same thing, except I was making a joke about pedantry.
You’re correctly identifying thermal mass as why they feel cooler to the touch, but this is mixed up in some incorrect and contradictory statements. You seem to keep changing your reasoning behind why tiles feel cooler to the touch.
The ceramic tiles in your house aren’t really “colder” than you
This is incorrect, and why I replied to begin with.
Flooring is colder than your skin, regardless of the material, unless your floor temp is above 92℉ (33.5℃). You can measure this with a thermometer. If something is the same temperature as your skin you won’t feel anything - there’s no heat transfer. You could have a copper floor if it was the same temperature as your skin, you wouldn’t feel a thing.
[Ceramic tiles] also have a high thermal mass … they easily lose heat to the air.
These two statements are directly contradicting one another. High thermal mass means it takes a longer time to lose heat to the air. Given identical conditions, ceramic will take longer to change temperature than fabric. For example, if you opened a window and it was 40℉ outside, the carpet would drop in temperature faster than the ceramic tile. It wouldn’t feel this way to your skin, but it could be measured with a thermometer.
That thermal mass is why tiles feel cooler than carpet. Your body has no issue warming the fibers in carpet next to your skin to the same temperature as your skin, it’s harder to warm up the tile because of the thermal mass.
“Your climate is warmer than mine so I gotta prove how tough and skilled I am”
It’s because he can’t use his chain saw on anything.
One of my neighbours sometimes hoses down her driveway in the pouring rain. Who knows why neighbours do the things they do.
I once inquired about this very practice. I’ve been told it’s because:
- Water restrictions are generally lifted when it rains
- Easy rinse/prepped surface
That all make sense to me if these idiots had a pressure washer, but its always a normal hose with a nozzle…
Are they ex military? Are they an ASVAB waiver? Did they used to get told to mop up the rain too?
Free pre-soak
Probably to hose off sentiment run off
Are those the sentiments that appeared when she ran off?
Yeah we saw one of our neighbors watering the storm drain. But also recently she drove from her driveway to ours - literally got in her car, backed out the driveway then immediate turn into ours, to come ask a question. Then got back in her car, backed out of our driveway and immediate turn into hers. So I think she is just crazy.
There may be something falling from trees that stains?
This was during the summer. The only thing might be bird poop?
You’re having a rough day. Seems like everybody wants a piece of you and they aren’t kind about it. So you put on some ear protection, grab your leaf blower and step outside. Nobody bothers you out there. The leaf blower yells nonstop the way you wish you could and even though you aren’t doing the yelling, there is still something cathartic about the noise. It creates a bubble where you are left alone. As the minutes pass and the debris collects into neat little piles, you can slowly regain your calm. The urge to explode, unleashing your anger and frustration, in an irreparable way ebbs and you feel like you can hold your shit together for a little while longer.
Or they are in a feud with their neighbors and are trying to piss them off.
What leaf blower allows for neat little piles?
Huh…apperently I have natural leaf blower bubble going on.
See, the trick is, other people try to push me around, and try to tske their anger out on me, and I look them dead in their eyes, with my cold dead inside eyes, and I say…
“You could die tomorrow and I wouldn’t even notice that you left”.
See, the trick to life is to not cause hassle for others, but otherwise not give a shit about anyone or anything. To truely become at peace with the idea that none of this matters. Your life, others lives, the elections, the results of things, none of it matters. People don’t matter. Media doesn’t matter. Life doesn’t matter. And once people realize that you are an unfeeling, uncaring, enempathetic to anything miserable piece of shit who wouldn’t feel a thing if an atomic bomb went off, they generally tend to leave you alone. Because you don’t want to piss off the guy who doesn’t feel anything, with nothing left to lose, and nothing to gain. I am the Milton of my universe, and one wrong move could cause me to burn this tinderbox to the ground. Then walk away without remorse.
Help is available. I mean it and I will help you find more help. You don’t deserve to suffer in the way you’ve described.
Sounds like they suffer less than a lot of people. At least they found their center.
Username checks out.
There’s a “black hole”, humanity’s beyond the event horizon, and barely anyone even acknowledges the existence of any of it.
But, no matter how hard one tries to sink into the void they cannot deny the human paradigm. Complex communication of the hypothetical us all that defines our species from the other animals. A human’s meaning-of-life is, at the root, the same as everyone else’s.
Above:
Ecclesiastes by King Solomon
“All we need to do is make sure we keep talking” by Stephen Hawking, British Telecom advertisement (1993)
Continuing:
Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Interstellar directed by Christopher Nolan
If any of this resonates with you then I’d be happy to have a conversation. This account should be active until March-ish.
What will happen in March?
I though for sure this would end in the hell in a cell copy pasta.
Or jumper cables.
Haven’t seen that one before.
They’re for connecting to a car battery and a dead car battery to jump start the dead one. Pretty common really.
I walked right into that.
But that’s not important right now
That one’s not really pasta, it’s rogersimon10:
https://cheezburger.com/7801861/19-times-the-dark-humored-jumper-cables-guy-trolled-reddit
It is home made pasta.
I’ve considered getting an electric one to blow all the dust out of my shop/warehouse, but I can’t justify the cost. I need a good shop/push broom and Japan doesn’t seem to like those (at least anywhere that I’ve looked).
“why is my neighbor doing [something]” is a question better suited for the neighbor than Lemmy. But if you must, asklemmy would be a significantly more appropriate community to be asking.
This is the perfect sub for such a question! Perhaps YOU would be better off on some other site? Or, outside touching grass?
