Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
No! Just rake 'em up, you lazy tyke!
Leafblowers
- Thread starter Fnaar
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NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
Leaf blowers and rakes alike are merely evidence of the futile compulsion felt by many to order the world as they would have it, rather than as Nature and Entropy between them prefer it.
upsidedown
Waiting for the great leap forward
- Location
- The middle bit
NickM said:
Well said, i mean typed.
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User482
Guest
NickM said:
That's an eloquent excuse for never tidying up...
mr Mag00
rising member
- Location
- Deepest Dorset
they are up there in the needless fuel wasting items list like patio heaters as far as im concerned
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
I just brush them into a big pile on my driveway and take them to the local recycling place. Takes me about half an hour every couple of months.
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
mr Mag00 said:
Where do electric bellows for lighting fires come on your list?
Over The Hill
Guru
- Location
- Ridden off into the sunset
If you leave them they tend to either blow away or blow into a pile in the corner on their own.
I really cannot see the point of blowing a leaf away with a machine that does not pick them up. Will it not just blow back?
I really cannot see the point of blowing a leaf away with a machine that does not pick them up. Will it not just blow back?
mr Mag00
rising member
- Location
- Deepest Dorset
not encountered those, just looked them up FFS! is all i can say
Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
I just leave the leaves on the grass. Worms eat them, you know, and keep your lawn aerated in return. Blackbirds like to poke about among the leaves to find worms. I like blackbirds.
"And the leaf blowers!! Is there anything more futile?"
"And the leaf blowers!! Is there anything more futile?"
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Uncle Mort said:They'd have to be bloody big worms to chomp their way through the leaves on my lawn!
Big enough?
Chamfus Flange
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Woking, Surrey
My gardener uses a leave blower. I've asked "Why?" and the only response I can gather is he likes anything with an petrol engine on it. So he also has a hedge cutter, chainsaw, lawnmower, strimmer all with petrol engines.
I think leave blowers are a complete waste of time. As a previous contributor has said, they collect in corners and alike. Pick them up where they collect and compost them. It's quicker and less effort.
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I think leave blowers are a complete waste of time. As a previous contributor has said, they collect in corners and alike. Pick them up where they collect and compost them. It's quicker and less effort.
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