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14 October 2021, 09:01 AM | #31 | |
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They make an awful racket and dump a whole bunch of crap into the air. If there are alternatives, great!
Just yelling, “get off my lawn!” doesn’t seem to help. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro |
14 October 2021, 09:19 AM | #33 |
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Electric leaf blowers will dump a lot of crap in the air as well.
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The new law will ban the sale of all off-road, gas-powered engines, including generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers, and even golf carts. It's basically every 2-stroke engine.
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14 October 2021, 10:08 AM | #35 |
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14 October 2021, 10:30 AM | #36 |
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If I did not have both a commercial grade walk behind leaf blower and a backpack blower, it would take me until the spring thaw to rake all of my leaves.
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14 October 2021, 11:02 AM | #37 |
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Maybe California can start chopping down residential trees?
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14 October 2021, 11:08 AM | #38 |
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I'm guessing this is a ban on the sales of these engines, not their use.
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Hey buddy.... way past time to move!!
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At least CA has a strong power grid for all their residents to recharge each night. Plus, I’m sure all the small(ish) batteries will be eco-friendly from a manufacturing and disposal perspective. |
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14 October 2021, 12:03 PM | #43 |
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I need my gas leaf blower to dry all of my gas powered ATVs after a wash!
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I got a set of battery powered Stihl equipment nearly 10 years ago, it all works, had to get new batteries last year. Maybe they're not as powerful as the gas operated ones, but certainly around 90% or so, the headache is zero, the maintenance the same and it all works (still). So I hope we can all move forward and keep our neighbors sane...I even got a Stihl lawn robot mower and its working perfectly fine, had to replace some wheels after 3 years and the blade anually, but it saves on lawn maintenance, the guys don't have to drive all the trucks over , I don't get any diseases or other seeds carried in, it's super quite and actually entertaining to watch, super quite. The future is here...
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14 October 2021, 02:48 PM | #47 |
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Unless you have very big areas to cover, rechargeable-battery powered tools are so much more convenient than 2-stroke petrol-powered stuff. I could never get my new petrol chainsaw to start and eventually gave it away. Bought an electric one - starts every time.
Love my rechargeable-battery leaf blower. Not noisy and blows like crazy (I am not one of the inconsiderate people who just blows all their rubbish on to the street or someone elses property) I mainly use it to blow the dust out of the garages.
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There's a couple companies making zero turn battery mowers. I have quite a bit of Ego brand equipment and find the weed whackers, hedge trimmers, etc to be more powerful than the gas stuff I once owned. The biggest drawback I see is the cost of the batteries. I have several sizes, with the smallest battery costing about $150. I don't have any riding equipment, can't imagine what that battery will cost. I need at least two batteries to weed whack and edge my property (I went back to a gas mower when I bought my current property, which is almost two acres). Commercially, it's doable, but gonna be quite an investment to get started and probably ongoing to keep replacing batteries.
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How on the one hand does one ban ICE engines for personal transportation but on the other hand not go after such a significantly polluting activity as leaf blowers?
Logic and progress. Air and noise pollution to move around leaves is pretty stupid when (if) you think about it. I remember raking leaves when I was young. That worked just fine and also was a bit of exercise. |
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I work in Landscape construction. Every time I pick up a 22v, 36v, 56v rechargeable battery tool I feel it is safer, more reliable as well as often quieter and cleaner. This change is inevitable. I don't know why this has to be about who you vote for.
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Damn you Paul, my leaf blower is my absolute favourite lawn and garden tool
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14 October 2021, 08:23 PM | #52 |
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Nobody has this strong an infrastructure for all the charging requirements. Maybe the power companies could actually provide the amount, but their residential distribution infrastructure couldn’t handle the amount of power they will eventually need to EVs and battery everything.
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I have a gas backpack blower. I don’t use it much anymore because that is what hired hands are for but I do (did) enjoy using it. It feels like I am wearing a jet pack
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Don’t you love centralized power? As posted before, great ways to solve problems that never existed. All bow down to your leaders and obey...
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If you cant handle a leaf rake maybe you don't need a yard
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A two strike gas engine puts as much air pollution into our air in just a couple hours as the average American’s car does in a week. For this reason alone I support this move.
For me, the real benefit would be my neighbor’s yard guy not waking me up with that damn high pitched whine at 7:15 every Saturday morning.
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Good luck enforcing this law
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From all the outrage there seems to be a lot of landscape and gardening people on this site.
It's obviously an attempt to move away from fossil fuels, one sector at at time. Welcome to the 21 Century.
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California doing California things.
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