Gas blowers banned in Ann Arbor Mi

flushcut said:
In the hands of an amateur, yes because they are generally sold an underpowered POS that takes four times as long to do the job as pro gear. IMO A blower is essential gear in my eyes.
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This is the problem with electric blowers as well. Neighbor got an electric blower and spends an hour on a job that should take 15 minutes. I'd rather hear the 2-cycle for less time.
 
Njdelaney said:
I personally see this as good and bad. They're trying to move in the right direction which is good. I have neighbors who misuse and overuse gas blowers, and do it at the worst times. I have one neighbor who has a tiny front lawn, like 30' x 10', and he runs a Stihl backpack pro blower to clean that tiny yard. Always early in the morning or around 6pm in the evening when you're relaxing from the day in your backyard, and he's retired so there's no excuse for that timing. It is also better for the soil to just let the leaves stay on the ground, whether you like the look of it or not, and this is going to give a push to leaving the leaves.
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I don't get the war on leaves...when did this become a thing? I know suburbanites were raking and sweeping leaves back in the 1950s, but when did it become necessary to eliminate every single leaf from your lawn and garden? And then go on Facebook asking for advice on how to deal with a neighbor's leaves that are blowing onto your property?

A neighbor behind me does no yard work all season but hires a landscaping company to come in and do a fall cleanup. Backyard is 40'x50' but less than half is lawn - the rest is overgrown pachysandra with a locust in the middle. Two guys with backpack Stihls spent two hours one afternoon until it got dark, then came back at 8 AM and spent another hour blowing every loose bit of debris to the street. A week later, the yard looks the same as before.
 
I have an Echo 9010 (80cc) backpack leaf blower, but it only gets used to blow the leaves off my 1/4-mile rock driveway just before the snow comes so it doesn't clog up the snow blower with matts of wet leaves. Oh, and it is fun to blow the chipmunks out of my down spout from the ground up. I can sometimes get them to shoot 15 feet or so up past the gutter.
 
southsoundtree said:
More, bigger trees will be removed!
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Unfortunately, that is not improbable.

I've seen too many trees already removed because they "dropped too many leaves.". I've tried to highlight that they could likely find a high school kid direct leaves for many many years before the even touch the cost of removing that tree. Fortunately we don't do big removals so I don't have to be the one removing them.
 
Tuebor said:
A few paragraphs from the article:
...Gas leaf blowers still can be used by contractors when doing street, sidewalk and other paving construction work...
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Glad to know the driveway companies painting asphalt driveways black will still be able to proceed as normal.



Tuebor said:
...still can be used on recreational fields, golf courses and at public facilities....
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Also, wonderful to see governments passing laws that apply to "thee, but not me".
 
I’ve been blowing leaves away from the house and plant beds. Then my Toro with Gator blades reduces them to mulch. I’ve been doing this 34 years. My old Stihl BG55 recently died so the Dewalt battery blower does the job with 8ah battery. My wife uses it to blow the patio and porches off.
 
when miss use occurs and laws are passed banning them outright it’s too much in my opinion.
Pruned about a dozen small street trees, used the stein cart down the sidewalk. Raked up everything we could. I used the small handheld leaf blower, just a few blips but mostly on idle. Someone came up and chewed me out for using a gas blower.
I walked her to our truck and opened to saw side of the tool box. Explained that the gas blower gets one tank of fuel every 3/4weeks, and all the saws in here burn 1-4 gallons per week. The dump goes about 1-2 weeks per 25 gallons and the chipper burns about 10-20 gallons on a busy week.
Went back and filled the blower showing that is about a pint of fuel.
She muttered and left.

We just used our back pack blower on 1000’ of road to clear two years accumulated leaf litter. 3 hours. Not so bad 2/3 times per year. Now daily is bullshit, and it’s not a replacement for a rake!
 
Your laws are a lot more lax than the ones we ended up with in a lot of towns on Long Island. No 4 year grace period, none that I’m aware of loopholes and an endless supply of Karen’s.

But god forbid you increase costs to offset the new equipment purchases or extra time needed for clean ups.
 
evo said:
when miss use occurs and laws are passed banning them outright it’s too much in my opinion.
Pruned about a dozen small street trees, used the stein cart down the sidewalk. Raked up everything we could. I used the small handheld leaf blower, just a few blips but mostly on idle. Someone came up and chewed me out for using a gas blower.
I walked her to our truck and opened to saw side of the tool box. Explained that the gas blower gets one tank of fuel every 3/4weeks, and all the saws in here burn 1-4 gallons per week. The dump goes about 1-2 weeks per 25 gallons and the chipper burns about 10-20 gallons on a busy week.
Went back and filled the blower showing that is about a pint of fuel.
She muttered and left.

We just used our back pack blower on 1000’ of road to clear two years accumulated leaf litter. 3 hours. Not so bad 2/3 times per year. Now daily is bullshit, and it’s not a replacement for a rake!
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Trade-splained
 
Not an unreasonable law, and it seems to have the necessary allowances for necessary blower-work form contractors, though we all know many of those abuse blowers as well.... *cough cheap landscapers*

I recently switched from my gas BG 56 to the battery Leaf Blaster 350iB and it's been great so far. Even with the larger battery it doesn't have a ton of endurance, but I don't have large areas to blow off on my job sites 98% of the time, so it's great and works perfectly.

But I also have a very long gravel driveway at my house and an even larger gravel driveway and pad to keep clean at my other property. For that I have the gas backpack BR 800 C-E MAGNUM, because it is the only thing that can tackle truly large spaces. What used to take 2 hours at my house with the handheld blower now takes 20 minutes with the big backpack blower, and that's a win for everyone.
 
They've got your back:

Former Council Member Joan Lowenstein expressed thanks to council for the ordinance, saying it helps protect lawn care workers who will be “happy to not be abused by having to wear gasoline backpacks and be endangered every day.”
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27RMT0N said:
Not an unreasonable law, and it seems to have the necessary allowances for necessary blower-work form contractors, though we all know many of those abuse blowers as well.... *cough cheap landscapers*

I recently switched from my gas BG 56 to the battery Leaf Blaster 350iB and it's been great so far. Even with the larger battery it doesn't have a ton of endurance, but I don't have large areas to blow off on my job sites 98% of the time, so it's great and works perfectly.

But I also have a very long gravel driveway at my house and an even larger gravel driveway and pad to keep clean at my other property. For that I have the gas backpack BR 800 C-E MAGNUM, because it is the only thing that can tackle truly large spaces. What used to take 2 hours at my house with the handheld blower now takes 20 minutes with the big backpack blower, and that's a win for everyone.
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We usually roll daily with 2 of those br 800 and they blow hard ! Can’t imagine having to leave a property clean without making them work for us to achieve fast results and get it over with
 
Fuck yo blower. Let the leaves lay where they fall. I have a BG86. Hate the damn thing. It was given to me by a client who got a backpack. She always saw me raking and offered it to me. I took it......I will blow sawdust off a driveway but hardly anything else. Damn I hate them.....don't get me started on batteries.....I love my little battery husky, but the guilt is huge.....we are single handedly destroying third world countries and people.....
 
islandarb said:
Fuck yo blower. Let the leaves lay where they fall. I have a BG86. Hate the damn thing. It was given to me by a client who got a backpack. She always saw me raking and offered it to me. I took it......I will blow sawdust off a driveway but hardly anything else. Damn I hate them.....don't get me started on batteries.....I love my little battery husky, but the guilt is huge.....we are single handedly destroying third world countries and people.....
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Yup! Everything in moderation. I bought a blower specifically to blow out the radiator on my chipper, the ole gravely and blowing into the back of a pickup. With the forward facing radiator this would clog it up chipping dead in the summer months.
The thing finally got run over, and so I replaced it with a backpack. Much easier on the hands.
My contract states work area will be raked, but l’ll blow roads and driveways.
It always had amazed me with folks who pay a mint for ‘compost’ to be spread, then blow every little leaf! They have to reapply the compost annually.
 
I love the way fallen leaves kill the lawn.

My neighbors blow and blow leaves then pick them up a burn them. I bet they run a blower ten hours a week all summer and fall.

Burning leaves needs to be banned next.
 
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