Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?


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Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.

Steve writes:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

The gas ones are really good for polution and annoying the hell out of
neighbors with the obnoxiously loud sound.

Not that I have a neighbor that uses his after every time he cuts the
lawn to blow the grass clippings of the sidewalk and driveway. Love
the neighbor, hate the gas blower though. A broom albeit not as fun
can do the same job more quietly and w/o using gasoline.

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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

You can use them as the power supply for a small homebuilt
hovercraft.

Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

As a girlfriend that doesn't talk back?

Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

I have used an elec one to blow deep (fluffy) snow off the roof.

Better was using it to blow cellulose insulation into walls (small job).

Jim

"Larry Bud" wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

As a girlfriend that doesn't talk back?

hmmm, gas or electric?


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Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.

Steve wrote:
"Larry Bud" wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

As a girlfriend that doesn't talk back?

hmmm, gas or electric?

Gas, electric could be a shock hazard!

"Larry Bud" writes:
Steve wrote:
"Larry Bud" wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

As a girlfriend that doesn't talk back?

hmmm, gas or electric?

Gas, electric could be a shock hazard!

Electric, gas could be an explosion hazard!

Silly yes?

GFCI outdoor outlets are code most places in the US these days, so I
wouldn't be so quick to force everyone to buy an internal combustion
engine for every outdoor task.

Best Regards,
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

"Todd H." wrote in message ...
Steve writes:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

The gas ones are really good for polution and annoying the hell out of
neighbors with the obnoxiously loud sound.

Not that I have a neighbor that uses his after every time he cuts the
lawn to blow the grass clippings of the sidewalk and driveway. Love
the neighbor, hate the gas blower though. A broom albeit not as fun
can do the same job more quietly and w/o using gasoline.

I use a gas blower. It's noisy, but fast. 100 ft. of driveway is too darn
far to be sweeping with a broom, at least for the time I'm willing to invest
in the job.

I tried an electric one, but all the extension cord required was a hassle
and it wasn't powerful enough.

If the nominal polution and noise is too much, I'd be more than willing to
let you sweep my driveway for me. Strangely, the offer is seldom accepted..

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"Todd H." wrote in message ...
Steve writes:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

The gas ones are really good for polution and annoying the hell out of
neighbors with the obnoxiously loud sound.

Not that I have a neighbor that uses his after every time he cuts the
lawn to blow the grass clippings of the sidewalk and driveway. Love
the neighbor, hate the gas blower though. A broom albeit not as fun
can do the same job more quietly and w/o using gasoline.

I use a gas blower. It's noisy, but fast. 100 ft. of driveway is too
darn far to be sweeping with a broom, at least for the time I'm willing to
invest in the job.

I tried an electric one, but all the extension cord required was a hassle
and it wasn't powerful enough.

If the nominal polution and noise is too much, I'd be more than willing to
let you sweep my driveway for me. Strangely, the offer is seldom
accepted..

We used to live in Washington, D.C., where Carlos, and his brother, Ramos,
would arrive, at the neighbors, at 6:00 AM to blow the leaves with their six
cylinder-powered, deafness-causing blowers. The owners did not care because
they had to leave at 6:00 AM to get the METRO to commute to their jobs in
the never-ending circle of goverment (if in) or think tank (if out) jobs.

Later we lived in Dallas, Texas, and Carlos, and his brother Ramos, followed
us and they would still arrive at 6:00 AM, to the neighbors, now armed with
the new quad-valve sixteen cylinder (with supercharger) super magna blower
that could blow a leaf from Dallas to Wisconson, where they would not
notice. The owners did not care because they were vacationing in Bermuda.

Now we are retired to the Sierra Nevada, and I have never heard the sound of
any blower of any kind. My neighbors are all redneck hillbillies, and I
think if they heard the sound of a blower they would get out their shotguns,
and blow that persons head off.

But who is to say what is right? Certainly not me. But it is quiet around
here.

Todd H. wrote:
Steve writes:

Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

Got a weather balloon?

The gas ones are really good for polution and annoying the hell out of
neighbors with the obnoxiously loud sound.

A neighbor had an electric one with a nasty high-pitched whine. It might
actually have been a hair-dryer because it seemed to take him forever to do the
job. I never wanted to go out and look because I might not have been able to
resist the urge to strangle him with his own electric cord.

Not that I have a neighbor that uses his after every time he cuts the
lawn to blow the grass clippings of the sidewalk and driveway. Love
the neighbor, hate the gas blower though. A broom albeit not as fun
can do the same job more quietly and w/o using gasoline.

Electric blowers rool. Good for blowing stuff off smooth things, but near to
worthless for blowing magnolia leaves out of ice plant. The 10-gallon
shop-vac's hose isn't big enough to suck them up. You can get rid of some of
them with the blower, but hand-picking is the most reliable. Maybe I'll even do
that some day...

God I hate magnolia trees. The flowers are up too high to pick or even smell,
the branches break in lower-medium-speed wind, they drop grenades that can
sprain an ankle or cause a bad fall or knock the eggs out of your bicycle
basket, the leaves are big and stiff and leathery and take years to decay, and
they neither grow nor die quickly enough. And they probably make lousy firewood.

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Mike Berger wrote:
You can use them as the power supply for a small homebuilt
hovercraft.

Excellent idea, but my hovercraft is full of eels.

Steve wrote:

Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

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When Carlos and Ramos come to my neighborhood at 6:00 (or even 5:00)
AM, I stick my sleepy head out the window and shout, "IMMIGRATION !!!"
and they drop those hellish leafblowers and scatter like the wind. It
works for a few days until Roberto and Miguel come back to do the same
thing. Repeat as necessary, it works.-Jitney

In article , Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

Don't know if this qualifies as "fun", but I have one interesting use for my
electric blower.

Every couple of years, or when upgrading some component, I open up the desktop
computer case and find everything inside covered with dust, cat fur, and the
like. Obviously the fans carry in the dust as part of doing their job, and
the various fan blades (especially the CPU fan) are amazingly caked with crud.

A minute with the leaf blower yields a relatively clean PC interior, although
the room itself wil now be inundated with flying dust. But that's easy to
vacuum up when it settles; it's too much hassle to uncable the PC and take it
outside.

Art

(Arthur Shapiro) writes:
In article , Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

Don't know if this qualifies as "fun", but I have one interesting use for my
electric blower.

Every couple of years, or when upgrading some component, I open up the desktop
computer case and find everything inside covered with dust, cat fur, and the
like. Obviously the fans carry in the dust as part of doing their job, and
the various fan blades (especially the CPU fan) are amazingly caked with crud.

A minute with the leaf blower yields a relatively clean PC interior, although
the room itself wil now be inundated with flying dust. But that's easy to
vacuum up when it settles; it's too much hassle to uncable the PC and take it
outside.

As a chip designer, I'd advise against this, however. That much air
moving at such a velocity can generatore a great deal of static
electricity, and modern microchips can only take so much before they
succumb to ESD (electrostatic discharge) failure. Granted they are
all soldered and seated in the machine which helps versus doing the
same near an unseated chip, but with the tremendous density and
extraordinarily thin gate oxides of modern memory chips and
processors, it's not something I'd encourage anyone to do to their pc
innards. Vacuuming has similar downsides and localized airflows and
should be approached with care near the circuit boards as well.

The importance of this increases with each generation of machines, as
gate oxides get thinner and thinner.

But it is an interesting application of a leaf blower nonetheless!

Best Regards,
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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Todd H. wrote:
"Larry Bud" writes:
Steve wrote:
"Larry Bud" wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

As a girlfriend that doesn't talk back?

hmmm, gas or electric?

Gas, electric could be a shock hazard!

Electric, gas could be an explosion hazard!

Silly yes?

GFCI outdoor outlets are code most places in the US these days, so I
wouldn't be so quick to force everyone to buy an internal combustion
engine for every outdoor task.

Who said anything about an outdoor task?

You obviously didn't read the OP question, or my response, which was in
jest.

"Larry Bud" writes:
You obviously didn't read the OP question, or my response, which was in
jest.

Indeed, I glossed completely over the girlfriend part. LOL


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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?



Ours (electric) sees more use blowing sawdust out of the garage and
leaves out
of the gutters than it ever sees for its intended use.

I also use it to blow/suck leaves from places my lawn tractor can't
reach,
like the paver brick turnaround that some fool put right over a maple
tree's roots and an area that's mulched with crushed rock. It will,
however, pick up the stupid lava rock and transfer it to the next
county over. (Have to be careful where the crushed limestone and
lava rock meet.)

Most of my leaves, however, end up being chopped into little pieces and
blown by the Deere under the hedges, where they do a dandy job keeping
the weeds down.

Cindy Hamilton

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:18:24 GMT, (Arthur
Shapiro) wrote:

In article , Steve wrote:
Do you use a leaf blower? Any other fun uses for these things?

Don't know if this qualifies as "fun", but I have one interesting use for my
electric blower.

Every couple of years, or when upgrading some component, I open up the desktop
computer case and find everything inside covered with dust, cat fur, and the
like. Obviously the fans carry in the dust as part of doing their job, and
the various fan blades (especially the CPU fan) are amazingly caked with crud.

A minute with the leaf blower yields a relatively clean PC interior, although
the room itself wil now be inundated with flying dust. But that's easy to
vacuum up when it settles; it's too much hassle to uncable the PC and take it
outside.

Art

For easier clean-up afterwards, try blowing the computer clean
outside.