Please make them stop. Why are they still legal? My neighbor has been using a mower, weed eater, and leaf blower for 5.5 hours. Nobody else ever notices the noise but my auditory sensitivities make me want to claw my skin off.
The HoA at the housing area I live at has landscapers come through every Tuesday, and their gas mowers, weed whackers, and leaf blowers are going nonstop from 9am to 6pm. I cannot fucking stand how much noise it makes. Even with headphones and in my room, it overpowers everything. The only way I can get a reprieve is to just take my laptop and go to the nearest library all day
While you’re listening to music or whatever on your headphones, play a youtube video of brown noise in the background too. That should help drown it out.
I’m gonna tell you about the most successful prank I’ve experienced.
My work had nice stereo speakers setup on space near the ceiling (weird layout). There was a back door to a tiny parking lot that we probably paid more to have (windows and stuff not available to all offices in a shared space).
Fucking leaf blowers show up. They’re out there, we can see them. They just won’t stop! About an hour in, my buddy complains that they’re giving him a headache. Someone agrees they should go away. Another of my friends (to this day, that shithead) starts laughing so hard. “I can’t believe nobody noticed!”
He had set the stereo (hooked to a computer) to a youtube video of leaf blowers. The guys with the leaf blowers had been gone for a long time. None of us figured it out. He’s a good friend and I still hate him for that. I think I’ll slap his baby to get back at him, I’m so mad (still!) (not really, I love him).
I still laugh with anger at how he duped us so hard.
He at least owes lunch and a beer. I swear, I wish we had a whole community just for auditory sensitivities. I live with a 4 month old and want to stab myself in the ears half the time. Loud restaurants always get me. We have to leave any place that has a live band because it stresses me out so bad trying to hear others.
It’s the worst part of ADHD by far for me. I can live with all the unfinished tasks and forgetting everything if people would just stop making so much noise. Please please please no more noise…
Constant tones don’t bother me as much as varying ones. Tradespeople with saws, hammers and nailguns are ao much worse.
Agreed on constant tones. I have headphones that can block out the lawn equipment pretty good. The one neighbor has a service that comes and they’re gone in 15 minutes. 3 guys with leaf blowers at the end for 90 seconds and the headphones make them sound like they’re a few blocks away. The other neighbor is trigger happy and he likes to rev it up and down and my headphones can’t keep up. I shut the windows and gnash my teeth for the 15 minutes it takes him to blow his yard.
My neighbor is over here blowing shit for an hour. Drives me nuts. Dude is OCD or something about his lawn. It looks nice, but damn. Drives me nuts.
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.Ban them. And if we can find the person who invented them, kick them in the balls, or vag…
Harold Weedwacker and Lyle Leafblower are the culprits! I’m no fan of doxxing but I think in this case it’s justified
Johan Wheedwhakker.
It’s always some guy named Johan.
Don’t forget William Whippersnipper
Harley Davidson’s and 2Stroke engines
Crotch rockets too.
Highly recommend concert earplugs for when it gets real bad, they drop about 20dB off the sound and cut out those high pitches that scrape at your brain
I have loops on my key chain. It switches between three settings but I can never tell the difference. I want to buy more for sure, but they are pricey.
I have some to play specifically with my band that kills 20db. The stick out of the ears though, so I just use the loops.
Are they an Active Noise Cancelling type?
I’ve been using the old school silicone guys with a little plastic widget that lets in a small amount of sound, unfortunately can’t use the powered type because of explosive atmosphere safety laws (smh why won’t these companies let me die /j )
They need to be banned for several reasons. The small particulates they blow up are dangerous to breathe, the noise will ruin hearing.
I took care of lawns when I was a kid, rakes and brooms worked fine, but now morbidly obese are doing lawn care.
Morbid
Any sounds coming from outside whatever enclosure I’m in is highly triggering. Any/all lawn care devices, loud exhaust/music, arguing/fighting, etc. I hate it
Yeah, so loud and annoying. They kick up so much dust and just move stuff from one place to another and often they don’t actually pick the stuff up after, not to mention the fumes. Hate them all around.
Battery powered devices have gotten way better and while they may not be able to handle larger properties in one charge yet, the catteries are getting cheaper. I have a mower, and an edger and weed eater that all share a battery. I have a really small lot, but as long as I don’t leave the grass to get really long and keep the blades on the mower sharp (both of which mean more torque and thus more power is needed) I never drain the battery totally. And a good broom is way more efficient at cleaning the sidewalks than a blower. And I either bag or mulch the grass, so I never need to rake, so only a little gets on the sidewalks compared to letting the grass go everywhere. And honestly with how heavy those blowers and fuel are, it’s probably not that much more effort to use a broom either.
Overall it’s significantly less noise (not totally quiet of course), no exhaust fumes for me or my neighbors, and less kicking up dust and pollen that I’m sensitive to and I’m sure others are as well.
My trigger is a tarp blowing in the wind loudly :| It makes me anxious in a way nothing else does.
Those gas blowers are loud as frig though.I bring earplugs to any loud-ish things though; mechanic’s shop, demolition derby, circus, …
I take ear plugs everywhere. Have loops on my keychain. Absolute lifesaver.
frig
Fuck. The word you are looking for is fuck.
They are loud as fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
You’re actually allowed to say fuck on the Internet. Fuck. See. Fuck.
Believe it or not, you’re also allowed to say frig on the internet
Aw you’re right, I can say fuck off you frigger.
we get to hear it all year long. the leaf blowers turn into light-weight snowblowers in the winter.
You just made the best case to not move where it snows.
https://www.flareaudio.com/en-au/products/isolate
Highly recommend
You can even put headphones on top
How comfortable would you say these are? Which material for them did you end up going with?
I bought two sets of the titanium ones, which have better isolation performance than aluminium. The original set was from the kickstarter then a new set a year or two ago. They’re absolutely fantastic at music gigs, you can hear everything clearly without it being deafening or damaging. The only sounds that get in are bone conducted.
I find them comfortable enough to wear for a few hours (3-5) without stress, and I rarely ever wear anything else in-ear like earphones because I don’t find in-ears comfortable.
They are so deafening that it took a little while to get used to them, it’s weird hearing things so muted but also undistorted
How do you clean yours, and how do headphones not painfully push them into your ear.
When inserted correctly, practically nothing sticks out of the ear for headphones to contact with
A gentle wipe on some paper towel seems to do a pretty good job. The foam tips are replaceable too
Depending on your location there may be noise ordinances that limit the allowed volume, hours, and/or duration of use. If it’s really bothering you it might be worth consulting a lawyer to find out if any apply
I think about this a lot. But it’s also so hot out and I know these (individual) guys aren’t getting paid enough. If I call them in for starting up half an hour early, I feel like an asshole because the alternative is them doing more work in the heat of the day. You know their employers aren’t gonna hire more guys to get it done quicker before the heat becomes oppressive or dangerous.
But also let me fucking sleep I’m dying here
That’s a good point. I just need to start keeping my noise canceling phones charged. Got some on amazon before I started boycotting big tech. They were only $40. Almost as good as Bose and don’t malfunction after one use like my $400 Bose ones did.
Yes. Very.
I can understand leaf blowers. For me it’s hair dryers. Just cannot stand the sound!
