Anons do you perfer a leaf blower or a rake?
I use a Ryobi cordless blower just to blow leaves off my driveway into my yard then I cut the shit along with my grass. I don't need no fucking rake.
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>>541108556A spic is the fastest and cheapest method
Lawnmower. The leaf shreds break down over winter and fertilize the yard.
>>541108641SameMy battery took a shit a couple of weeks agoNew battery was $230I have the weedeater attachment the edger attachment and the blower attachmentThey got me locked inIm fucked
>>541108896Were you charging your battery while it's hot? I heard that's bad so I don't do it. I wait until it cools off.
>>541108556these things should be illegal, you don't need a gas powered machine to get a few feet of grass clippings off the road. the fact that scamscapers have to wear ear protection when they use these is proof that they don't belong in residential areas.
>>541109012Ill try thatIm in south floridaIts usually 300 degrees in my garage which is where I keep all that and yeah I was just throwing it right back on the charger right after it would die after use Thanks for the tip tho
>>541108556>Leaf blower
>>541108556I can go either way. But the leafblower to me is synonymous with beaner day laborers.
>>541109152Don't you dare slander king Justin, he's gotten his California dream and is living his best life
>>541108556The leaf blower does not eliminate the need for a rake.
>>541108556Rake is clearly superior.
>>541108556>leaf blowerI think thats what they call dogs in canada.
I just run them all over with the lawnmower
>>541108896I had the same problem, needed a new battery and a new motor and trimmer with battery cost the same as a new battery by itself.
>>541109029This is obviously electric you retard
>>541108641this guy gets it. i have a mix of ryobi and dewalt tools and i charge them with solar.
>>541109847I've got craftsman tools, what's that make me
>>541109942You can't help the retarded
>>541108840this i just blast em into mulch
>>541108840Are you fertilizing your driveway too?
>>541110001What are these beep boop digits?>>541110000Show me the money
>>541108896you can disassemble and rebuild battery packs with a spot welder. sometimes, it's just one cell that goes bad and you replace it for like $3. also, often times, you can buy a new tool that comes packaged with a free battery for less than just buying the battery.
>>541110049I'd fertilize his wife's driveway, if you know what I mean.
>>541108556>Checks flag >Wonders why you would even consider something that expensive
Where I live, we just pile em up and burn em. A rake works fine.
>>541109847i'm like a sonless, jobless dad with no home of my own. it's one of the saddest things you can become. your biological clock will turn you into a dad in your thirties whether you have kids or not.
>>541108840Some of that is okay, but the better call is to use a sweeper and then dump each load under the drip line of your trees for mulch.
It's fucking august, chill out
>>541109942my next door neighbor has an electric one and it's still very annoying. but every single scamscaper in existence uses a gas powered one, they even have two or three guys using them at the same fucking time for a tiny little strip of grass clippings. there's no excuse for this, it's obviously just creating bullshit pointless jobs.
>>541108556I prefer a compost machine
>>541110258The area I am keeping manicured is like 9 acres. You arent raking that. It's a combination of mowing and sweeping.
>>541109029Shut up fag. You sound like a bitch. Batteries are not a panacea for powering devices. Retard.
>>541108556Natalia prefers the Shipunov 2A42 autocannon.
>>541110513get a real job, worthless scamscaping scum.
>>541109847As an Unc I use Bosch 12V tools
>>541108684Stihl master race reporting in
Basic equipment needed for a property would be a zero turn, a riding mower with the deck dropped for pulling attachments, a tractor and rotary mower plus a 100 gallon spray tank and maybe like a subsoiler and disc harrow, a couple chainsaws, and some sort of combination unit for weed whacking and hedge trimming/edging etc. and a few back pack sprayers.
>>541108556THIS POST GLOWS, I WILL NOT DISCUSS ANTI-CANADIAN PLANS
>>541108556I just chop it all up with my lawn mower
test
>>541108556Broom and rake and these leaf scoop claws
>>541109152Fucking kek
>>541108556Broom.
>>541108840I have too many leaves in fall for this method. Blower is superior. But for the rest of the year yeah for the handful of leaves that fall in spring/summer just mulch that shit with the mower
>>541109962Retarded
>>541112487Some things wont mulch very well. Sweet gum balls, pine needles, Magnolia leaves etc.
>>541108556Blower but only for light snow on my driveway/sidewalk
>>541111711>Honey look the weird guy is out in his yard with his Hulk Hands
I used a rake last year after buying my first house but upkeep was a nightmare so I’m springing this fall for heavy duty gas powered lawn equipment.
>>541109847It's all the same cheap chink garbage in a different colored shell. You have no idea how fucking depressing it is to pick up some at basic circular saw or lawnmower or whatever sold by Sears decades ago and realize how it utterly btfos even the "professional" grade junk sold today. I got a 1970s self-propelled Lawnboy from my uncle's place after he died and it'll probably still be cutting grass 50 years from now.
>>541108556i reported this post for triggering me
>>541108556neither, both suckjust leave the leaves where they land and they take care of themselves automatically, fertilizing the soil my robot mower slices them up real good and that's it. no fucking alphalt driveway or anything like it, just straight up dirt and grassparking the chinese EV in a garage so not a single damn leaf end up there anywayfuck your illusion of "clean aesthetics"also that shit has never ever been an issue for me since i keep it clean around my land
>>541108556yes
>>541114595If you leave leaf litter on the grass it will kill the grass. Most lawns don't need fertilizing (depending what kind if grass you have) they need aeration, irrigation, and dethaching. Make no mistake a lawn is not natural, or native in most cases obviously. I have experimented with native lawn replacements and for around the house nothing comes close to a standard turf grass lawn. One of the few exceptions I will make for nonnative plants is a turfgrass. People get obsessed with natural plantings, but it will look like absolute trash unless you do layered beds/drifts and that doesnt work for foot traffic, activities, and contrary to popular belief it is about 100x more intensive than just a regular lawn. Anyways tge area immediately around the house is an extension of the house/habitable area imho. Natural growth happens just beyond the house in the woods. There are a few low maintenence native ornamental bunch grasses that are spectacular in big drifts. But they get 3-4 ft high and do not replace a lawn. And even they need burning or cutting/raking every two years or so. Native sedge is interesting, but try getting a uniform patch to grow... it is a massive task. Slow growing, not a true grass so you cannot spray broadleaf or grass killer over them. Turfgrass is the only way.
>>541108556I prefer paying someone
>>541108556I think it should be legal to use leafblowers whenever and wherever. I also think that anyone who hold a leafblower in his hands should automaztically become an outlaw and be fully legal to shoot, stab or beat to death at will.
>>541108556>perfer
>>541108556leark blower with a cord. Fuck the batter jew. but i do use an manual push mower
>>541108556Leaf blower...with Venturi attachment
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>>541108556I use a blower to blow all of the leaves and shit into my neighbors yard, Scamscapers do their yard a day after I do mine every week. I let them fuckers be the jannies.
My garden is entirely overgrown and filled with grasshoppers, hedgehogs, butterflies, the bees are well fed, and soon the frog migration will take place and they will have shade and long overgrowth that holds a lot of moisture. Im never cutting my grass.
>>541109847>Those shitty carrying bagsRemember when power tools came in hard cases?
>>541115704I would let my grass go more if I could but here, the bahia will take it over and the only way to keep the bahia in check is not letting it go to seed. Bahia does not like a short 2" cut in general and in summer it will go to seed in a few days. Anyways, I don't worry about keeping a tight yard, because the animals and insects come from the woods all around it. If I was in the suburbs I could see the appeal of this type of thing though. Also where I am things grow like a jungle. You dont touch an area for a few years and it will become scrub and get reclaimed by the woods quickly. In two seasons you'd need the 8ft rotary mower just to knock it back down.
>>541115475interesting. i've never had a single issue with the grass and ironically i almost couldn't care less about iti just let the robot mower and nature do its thing, that's itclearing up trees around of course and using the woodchips in a big pile to produce compost heat all winter, heating the growhouse, house and getting hot waterwhy bother to overcomplicate stuff for that extra 1% gain
>>541116039That might be sensible for a smallish area, but for a large area with alot of shade trees, fences, terrain, etc. a robot mower wont make a dent. The four critical tasks for me are obviously 1. mowing frequently 2. Spraying during spring and summer 3. Weed whacking/brush blade places you can't mow, and 4. Hit heavy brush and larger paddocks with the tractor/rotary mower a few times a year. I mulch with what my sweeper picks up around the trees and I have excess usually. Space is not a limiting factor for me though, so on any given winter and spring I can add some more "yard" if I want. But have come to the conclusion 10-15 acres is about what a person can keep clean and tight with the right equipment by themselves. I'm actually downsizing so that I can focus more on big drifts of ornamental grass right now and spend more time on beds/mass plantings vs mowing and spraying.
I know it's a bait thread, but you need both. Leaf blower to get shit sorted into a larger pile, then rake to get it more compact without blowing shit around everywhere to pick up.
>>541109847I just have tools from every brand and like 5 types of batteries based on the tool. Fuck Kobol though, home depot's shitty brand. The amount of batteries I've had to have replaced by them when all my Ryobi / Makita / Dewalt batteries still function is insane.
I have the biggest gas powered blower Sthil makesI can move bricks with itBatteries are for homosexuals
>>541108556you need both
>>541109847>it's all the same junk from the same chinese superduper-giga factory>so I just get whatever is on sale when I need it, and an extra battree
For me it's the multi-tine pitchfork, way more versatile.If it's on the drive way I can just use water or a broom.
>>541108641I also have a Ryobi leaf blower, but I blow all my leaves into the street or the neighbour's yards so I can declare that they are now Not My Problem. I shoulda kept my big mouth shut? Maybe.
>>541108840>The leaf shreds break down over winter and fertilize the yard.too much and you end up with a thick layer of thatch that holds moisture and then you get mushrooms growing in the lawn
>>541116828That guy was in the Navy and the victims last names were Goy. Something tells me this was no accident.
>>541117097When you look at the big picture, most of us are just simple goys.
>>541108556Fire
Kill leafblowers. Behead leafblowers. Roundhouse kick a leafblower into the concrete. Slam dunk a leafblower baby into the trashcan. Toss leafblowers into active volcanoes. Curbstomp pregnant leafblowers.TOTAL LEAFBLOWER DEATH.
>>541108556Leaf blower is the undisputed champ
