Please make them stop. Why are they still legal? My neighbor has been using a mower, weed eater, and leaf blower for 5.5 hours. Nobody else ever notices the noise but my auditory sensitivities make me want to claw my skin off.
The HoA at the housing area I live at has landscapers come through every Tuesday, and their gas mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers are going nonstop from 9am to 6pm. I cannot fucking stand how much noise it makes. Even with headphones and in my room, it overpowers everything. The only way I can get a reprieve is to just take my laptop and go to the nearest library all day
While you’re listening to music or whatever on your headphones, play a youtube video of brown noise in the background too. That should help drown it out.
Oh I hate leafblowers so fucking much. The noise is penetrating everything, and, especially with the loudest gas ones, the worker adjusts the throttle constantly. So the brain doesn’t get a second of at least monotonous noise to concentrate on something else, it instantly revs up and commands attention.
And the whole concept is so stupid. Stir up all the polluted dirt so it can get into people’s lungs, houses, and all kinds of surfaces. Blow leaves from the curb on the road, so cars can keep stirring them up, and push them back to the curb eventually. Blow the shit on the guy next door’s driveway, because poor overworked and underpaid landscaper, standing out there in the heat and sun, deafened by the fucking thing and getting lung cancer from the fumes and dust, cannot care less they just need to be done with that one driveway before getting a heatstroke.
Either get a broom or rake for small stuff around a residential property, or the sweeps-and-vacuum machine to actually clean up stuff in larger areas, like parking garages, roads, etc… ban fucking leafblowers, and ban all 2 stroke gas power tools in public places. Amen.Ban them. And if we can find the person who invented them, kick them in the balls, or vag…
Constant tones don’t bother me as much as varying ones. Tradespeople with saws, hammers and nailguns are ao much worse.
Agreed on constant tones. I have headphones that can block out the lawn equipment pretty good. The one neighbor has a service that comes and they’re gone in 15 minutes. 3 guys with leaf blowers at the end for 90 seconds and the headphones make them sound like they’re a few blocks away. The other neighbor is trigger happy and he likes to rev it up and down and my headphones can’t keep up. I shut the windows and gnash my teeth for the 15 minutes it takes him to blow his yard.
My neighbor is over here blowing shit for an hour. Drives me nuts. Dude is OCD or something about his lawn. It looks nice, but damn. Drives me nuts.
I can understand leaf blowers. For me it’s hair dryers. Just cannot stand the sound!
They need to be banned for several reasons. The small particulates they blow up are dangerous to breathe, the noise will ruin hearing.
I took care of lawns when I was a kid, rakes and brooms worked fine, but now morbidly obese are doing lawn care.
Seeing a PAIS worker blow the leaves in front of one property in front of the neighbouring property is what sets me off. Should be fined for littering.
Highly recommend concert earplugs for when it gets real bad, they drop about 20dB off the sound and cut out those high pitches that scrape at your brain
I have loops on my key chain. It switches between three settings but I can never tell the difference. I want to buy more for sure, but they are pricey.
I have some to play specifically with my band that kills 20db. The stick out of the ears though, so I just use the loops.
Are they an Active Noise Cancelling type?
I’ve been using the old school silicone guys with a little plastic widget that lets in a small amount of sound, unfortunately can’t use the powered type because of explosive atmosphere safety laws (smh why won’t these companies let me die /j )
Mine are passive. What are the safety laws?
One of the rules to stop people from setting off explosions is that nobody’s allowed electronics or anything with exposed metal / has materials that pose a static charge risk in an area that could have gas or flammable dust.
Yeah, so loud and annoying. They kick up so much dust and just move stuff from one place to another and often they don’t actually pick the stuff up after, not to mention the fumes. Hate them all around.
Battery powered devices have gotten way better and while they may not be able to handle larger properties in one charge yet, the catteries are getting cheaper. I have a mower, and an edger and weed eater that all share a battery. I have a really small lot, but as long as I don’t leave the grass to get really long and keep the blades on the mower sharp (both of which mean more torque and thus more power is needed) I never drain the battery totally. And a good broom is way more efficient at cleaning the sidewalks than a blower. And I either bag or mulch the grass, so I never need to rake, so only a little gets on the sidewalks compared to letting the grass go everywhere. And honestly with how heavy those blowers and fuel are, it’s probably not that much more effort to use a broom either.
Overall it’s significantly less noise (not totally quiet of course), no exhaust fumes for me or my neighbors, and less kicking up dust and pollen that I’m sensitive to and I’m sure others are as well.
Depending on your location there may be noise ordinances that limit the allowed volume, hours, and/or duration of use. If it’s really bothering you it might be worth consulting a lawyer to find out if any apply
I think about this a lot. But it’s also so hot out and I know these (individual) guys aren’t getting paid enough. If I call them in for starting up half an hour early, I feel like an asshole because the alternative is them doing more work in the heat of the day. You know their employers aren’t gonna hire more guys to get it done quicker before the heat becomes oppressive or dangerous.
But also let me fucking sleep I’m dying here
That’s a good point. I just need to start keeping my noise canceling phones charged. Got some on amazon before I started boycotting big tech. They were only $40. Almost as good as Bose and don’t malfunction after one use like my $400 Bose ones did.
My trigger is a tarp blowing in the wind loudly :| It makes me anxious in a way nothing else does.
Those gas blowers are loud as frig though.I bring earplugs to any loud-ish things though; mechanic’s shop, demolition derby, circus, …
frig
Fuck. The word you are looking for is fuck.
They are loud as fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
You’re actually allowed to say fuck on the Internet. Fuck. See. Fuck.
Believe it or not, you’re also allowed to say frig on the internet
Aw you’re right, I can say fuck off you frigger.
Used to. Then I had to use one for work. Now think about the nice neat orderly landscaping. How tidy everything looks. Like power washing.
Please just grab electrical ones. Clients could pay $5 more for electric service. Keep several batteries charged. It would sell to some people.
Oh it’s not something I use anymore. At the time it was the bosses equipment.
