A leaf blower is basically a reverse vacuum cleaner. It blows instead of sucks. It doesn’t pick up leaves, so they can be transported somewhere to be created into mulch, it has no goal other than to blow leaves from one place to another. It moves leaves but it doesn’t remove them. We must conclude that it does not address any societal need. Then why the fuck, does it exist. It’s trying to replace the rake and the broom, 2 tools we have been using for years, which can be purchased at a hardware store for 20 bucks and require no fuel or maintenance and operate nearly silently. Using these well designed tools allows us to actually pick up the leaves and move them to somewhere where they can’t annoy anyone else.
The typical leaf blower has a 180 to 200 mph air output which propels clouds of dirt, dust, dangerous contaminants such as bird and rodent poop, used condoms, and small children into the air. This has to stop.
Where do all the leaves go?
Somewhere else I presume, so that another leaf blowing idiot can blow them somewhere else. How come there aren’t giant piles of leaves everywhere?
Why does it blow and not suck? Well that would be too easy, or maybe not. If it sucked then it would need a bag the size of the Hindenburg and that would be to much for our poor overworked City and County public works departments..
One theory is that Second amendment rights people are demanding open carry of a leaf blower. If everyone carried then rogue leaf blower carriers would think twice about blowing leaves onto another person’s property and thereby prevent a leaf war.
Bottom line the leaf blower does its job extremely poorly — and it does so very loudly — yet people still flock to this useless, feeble technology.