Gas blowers banned in Ann Arbor Mi

Burning leaves is outlawed where I live. Except for tar spot, I take opportunities to lawnmower dried leaves into powder. Virtually disappears and the garden and earthworms make short work of it. I'll put 5 or more passes on the leaves powdering them more each pass. This is in a pile off a tarp, at the edge of the garden. Wet/green doesn't work nearly as well.

Gas blowers, except old 2 strokers like the bg55 and 85, are incrementally louder than electric blower whine. BG56 sounds much milder, mid-loud. Backpacks are just plain loud especially at WOT where they're most effective. :(


Speaking of OP, any rumblings about gas mowers?
 
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Steve Connally said:
Same story for Washington state. Proposed but not passed I believe. The difference is government and those working for government will be excused. Nobody else. I read this yesterday I believe.
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If the fine citizens may not use them, well, by golly, neither can the government!

Insult to injury. The “do as I say but not as I do” has me more angry (about most current policies) than the policy itself.
 
TreeCo said:
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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Need a slogan. Leaves are good, grass is bad. Obviously not all grass, as we need pitches and open picnic areas for recreation. But suburbia takes grass areas to a whole new level.
 
Regarding mulching of leaves... I wholeheartedly agree.

Have you tried to do that with a battery mower? Very ineffective. We borrowed our neighbor's gas mower to mulch our leaves this year. Did also haul some away... not trying to make a golf course green...just enough to not make a muddy mess of the yard for the kids to play in come spring.
 
So debates about gas vs electric aside (I use both), does anyone know if there's supply chain issue or something with Husqvarna 525iB battery blowers - seems like everyone is either out or Husky isn't making them anymore (which would be a shame cuz they use the same BLi200/300 40V battery as T540LiXP and string trimmers etc). I like handhelds for smaller jobs like around flower beds etc. when I need to take it easy and don't want to blow away the top five inches of topsoil (kinda) with a big backpack blower.
If it's sold out, probably going to be the same issue Canada will face now that our whack job environment minister/ Trudeau have banned new ICE vehicle sales after 2035 and BEV quotas before that year (including SUV's and light trucks like pickups as far as I know). Canada will become like Cuba where you can still see 1950's Fords being used as taxis. If you have a truck you like hang onto it and rust proof it cuz it might have to last a long long long time.
Anyway whats with the blower shortages?
 
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I expect guys like this will not be happy.


Reality is that if this house was in Ann Arbor they would simply have to leave the leaves (:rolleyes:). Too old to rake and too expensive to pay someone to rake even if you could find some poor sot who was willing to rake that much. Good luck bringing enough battery power for a yard like that. Anyhoo… people usually get what they vote for.

As an Ohio State grad, if anyone needs directions to Ann Arbor from Columbus:

“North till you smell it, west till you step in it”.
 
Tuebor said:
Finally done at 10:22. 112 minutes to blow off a lot that, according to tax data, is 45' x 177' with a 1600 sq ft house and a 360 sq ft garage on it. This is what gets residents to get the city to ban leaf blowers.
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Bucknut said:
I expect guys like this will not be happy.


Reality is that if this house was in Ann Arbor they would simply have to leave the leaves :)rolleyes:). Too old to rake and too expensive to pay someone to rake even if you could find some poor sot who was willing to rake that much. Good luck bringing enough battery power for a yard like that. Anyhoo… people usually get what they vote for.

As an Ohio State grad, if anyone needs directions to Ann Arbor from Columbus:

“North till you smell it, west till you step in it”.
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Pretty
At least to someone from Ohio
 
I must confess that I did a day of leaf cleanup recently, blowing with the hand held for a big part of the day. It was quite lucrative but very nasty. Mostly the fumes but also the dust kicked up, don't think I'll ever do it again.
 
And therefore, some time in the future . . . . If we could assume that electrified roadways would work both ways, I can picture the conversation . . "I can't understand it, the traffic volume on I90 is really, really high today, but the roadway is actually charging the power grid, not the other way around - we have to have a paper written about this for the COP conference . . . it's like a miracle!"
 
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