New Jersey Town Bans Gas Leaf Blowers

MSN ^ | 01/24/2024 | Katherine Fung

[woodbutcher1963]

I think there is already some kind of maximum Decibels rating to be sold in California.
I say this because my Stihl gas leaf blower states right on it.

[Red Badger]

Future archaeologists will look back on this era and try to figure out what caused the Mass Hysteria of Climate Change.

They will be puzzled to no end looking for a material or physical cause for the craziness..................

[Dr. Franklin]

The Northeastern suburbs, at least, have become insane with the leaf blowing. A simple noise ordinance ought to handle it: Your right to blast an army of leaf blowers at 200 decibels ends where your neighbor’s ears begin.
But hordes of illegals swarm in with a clutch of incredibly loud leaf blowers weekly, just to blow the leaves onto the surrounding neighbors’ properties. No, worry, another swarm of illegals with incredibly loud and obnoxious leaf blowers comes in the next day or so and blows the leaves back onto the original property. And on and on it goes. Every week, from April to November. Now they even come around to blow an inch or more of fluffy snow around from December through March.
These are small properties in town, such that you literally cannot hear a phone conversation while closed in in your own house. You could have five simultaneous, monster leaf blowers blasting right at the border of your property. Work from home? Good luck!
But even with a noise ordinance, are you going to get the police to come over in time to deploy perfectly calibrated equipment and collect sufficient evidence on demand?
Send the illegals home and go back to just raking up your few leaves—or having a neighbor’s kid or a neighbor’s American landscaping company do it—the few times a year that are really needed. Or mow them down when mowing the lawn.
These suburbs, largely having turned to the left, get the idea that electric leaf blowers are the answer. But no town needs people traipsing about, blowing the leaves from neighboring property to neighboring property all year round anyway.

It's not just using blowers to blow leaves. They also use them to blow dirt from sidewalk edging. If they do that when its damp, the dirt sticks to car and house windows. The noise is a problem too, especially first thing in the morning.

[Alberta's Child]

LMAO.

[Carriage Hill]

MEMO TO ALL LANDSCAPERS/MOWING COMPANIES:

Avoid all West Orange properties!

[Ronald77]

Are the current gas leaf blowers grandfathered in?

[AZJeep]

I, personally, use electric blower, because it is convenient for my small yard.
No mess with gas, oil or starting problems.
But I just occasionally clean my small yard!
IF you blow leaves all day, everyday, you need something else.
There is no professional grade electric blower!

[FamiliarFace]

I think you’re right!

[FamiliarFace]

I didn’t see that mentioned in the article.

[SgtHooper]

Ok, so now the mob in Jersey can establish a black market in leaf blowers. With senior citizen or veteran exemptions.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It's all about the noise. It drives people crazy.

Man Using Leaf Blower in His Yard Shot Dead by Neighbor: Police

[woodbutcher1963]

No, it just means that IF they have to rake the leaves going forward it we be additional man hours to accomplish the same task.

[Sooth2222]

Sound like a good place to send a bus load of illegals.

Wikipedia: The leaf blower originated in 1947 as a backpack fogger apparatus, invented by Japanese-based Kyoritsu Noki Company. Kyoritsu followed that design with a backpack/blower/misting machine in 1955. in 1968, Kyoritsu applied for a patent on a backpack blower mister design, and in 1972 established themselves in the United States as Kioritz Corporation of America, and is said to have invented the first leaf blower in 1977. The company changed its name to Echo in 1978.

What did people ever do before 1977?

(My first thought for a solution to the problem when I saw the headline was, "illegals with rakes". They won't be as noisy as a leaf blower on a Saturday or Sunday morning.)

[Bonemaker]

So rake your leaves you dumb ringpieces.

[hillarys cankles]

I hate leaf blowers for the noise and because they have made most landscapers so damn lazy. I love driving down a busy street as the offender blows everything into the road so the traffic will just take all the crap further down the road.

[Sooth2222]

No, it just means that IF they have to rake the leaves going forward it we be additional man hours to accomplish the same task.

Some people will look at the higher price, and decide to perform the task themselves. (Or pay their kids to do it.)

I wouldn't use a lawn service if it wasn't cheaper than doing it myself.

[Bonemaker]

“I’m not sure what problem these people are solving, other than massaging their own egos.”

They are like HOA board members, petty tyrants or as they are commonly called...pricks.

[hillarys cankles]

It’s all about the noise. It drives people crazy.
Man Using Leaf Blower in His Yard Shot Dead by Neighbor: Police

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Newsweek is such a BS rag. Nice final line in the article........

“ONCE AGAIN, EASY ACCESS TO FIREARMS HAS JUST TURNED A DISPUTE INTO A DEADLY CRIME. WE WILL SUPPORT THE VICTIMS AND SEEK JUSTICE IN THE COURTROOMS.”

[Oystir]

You are correct. The electric is superior. Maybe not in cars but in light lawn equipment, yes

[FamiliarFace]

We have every kind of leaf blower, battery, electric, and gas. I can use the small battery one for quick easy jobs. However, we lived in a very mature neighborhood, and unfortunately the prevailing winds bring all of our neighbors’ leaves into our yard. It’s a constant fight. Sometimes it is necessary to use the gas powered blower. It gets the job done in half the time of the battery blower. Oh, and we make good use of our rakes, too. It’s good exercise, and quieter. Still, there’s a place for the bigger tools.

One time a neighbor complained that we didn’t pick up our leaves often enough. She shut up quickly when I pointed out that we don’t have any trees in the front yard where she sees them. They all come from our neighbors’ yards, and she should go complain to them. She doesn’t even know us well. We rake our yard at least once a week in the Fall and early Winter. Some people just want to be important and powerful. If my neighbors would take care of their own leaves, my work would probably be reduced by 50-70%.