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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on February 03, 2022, 10:58:31 PM
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Gas-powered leaf blowers face a moment of reckoning
ALTADENA, Calif. With the Omicron variant of the coronavirus still circulating, six friends gathered last Saturday for an outdoor brunch on the patio of a house in Los Angeles County. But as the meal got underway, a steady roar from a gas-powered leaf blower, like a hair dryer on steroids, drew closer from across a fence line, drowning out the conversation. The leaf blower is a truly vile invention, one of the guests, Geoff Dyer, a writer and visiting professor at the University of Southern California, said over the noise, a major setback to the progress of civilization. Dyer is not alone in that view, and neighboring Pasadena is one of dozens of California cities that enacted restrictions on the use of leaf blowers over the last decade. The outcry over the ubiquitous devices grew so loud, in fact, that in October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will mean the end of the use of gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers in the state.
Here are my battery powered mowers, and my leaf blower is also battery powered:
(https://i.imgur.com/hLt1UeJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Pj77mxi.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/lcmYKFG.jpg)
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Something like this may be the next one for me:
(https://i.imgur.com/3kBb3md.png)
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I mean I already have a robot cleaner for the home and the pool so why not the yards too:
(https://i.imgur.com/FLp8ImI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JQuYgDn.jpg)
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the fuke, it was a electrical corded lawn mower....
I've never liked those "corded" ones. Sure it's much cheaper and you can run all day with it because you're using the city's power grid but it's just so clumsy IMO...
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I have not run out of juice yet mowing my lawns so the lithium ion battery powered ones are pretty good these days.
When I bought these Flex-volt batteries, it cost good money but they also perform very well:
(https://i.imgur.com/lcmYKFG.jpg)