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.