Lotta comments from folks without callouses. Electric tools suck, you never have enough batteries, they might have speed but the torque sucks, and who's gonna replace the thousands of dollars worth of gas tools I have? Keep yapping softhands, I'll eat your downvotes for breakfast and go burn 5 gallons of mix before days end Monday.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Cool with new sales being banned but as far as the existing ones go it's kind of a whatever for me. Sure it's a touch louder but we use an electric in this neighborhood and the blower part is plenty loud too. As far as emissions go I'm sure they're dirty as shit but it's probably not even the worst offender as far as landscaping equipment goes and in the big picture is probably meaningless. If people want to keep the old gassers going as long as they can before buying an electric I don't really give a shit.
Iirc the two stroke engines commonly used on leaf blowers and string trimmers are among the worst polluters for lawn equipment.
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Leaf blowers in general need to be banned. They cause too much soil erosion.
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A number of states and cities are banning gas-powered leaf blowers due to pollution, noise and health risk concerns.
🧐 Cars are next, right? Riiiight????
This becoming the next faux-outrage, Republican/conservative wedge issue in...3...2...1.
Tell them they're made in China or Mexico
They’re coming fer yer gas lawnmower!
Like the police will come round and take them.
Counties near me already banned two-stroke engines. Gas leaf blower ban is on the books for a month or so from now.
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well, pretty sure ICE has rounded up many a white person's lawnmower.