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Pinkumb t1_jd4d6rz wrote

There was a recent effort on this: https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Stamford-considers-limiting-gas-powered-leaf-17723560.php

>The proposal would limit leaf-blower usage — previously exempt from
Stamford's noise control ordinance — to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays,
and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends and holidays. The restrictions do not
apply to city employees and agents operating them "in the course of city
business."

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DayShiftDave t1_jd5mlru wrote

We have this in Greenwich, and honestly it's worthless. I care that it is going on all day while I'm working from home, not in the two hours between work and sunset.

But cutting down to just 4hrs/day would make it tough to earn a buck for a whole lot of people.

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Lonely-Resort-9365 t1_je091yh wrote

Can testify this is 100% a fact having been in the landscape business before, in 4 hours you could only realistically get maybe 3 houses done with a crew of 4. Now if you were below the parkway you could get maybe 9 houses done. As it is when I worked a full day landscaping we only got 5-7 houses done and that was a lot, we only got that number done because 4 of the houses were right next to each other.

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DayShiftDave t1_je0gfrc wrote

Plenty of places north of the Merritt could be a half day job, but those aren't the places worried about leaf blower noise either, I guess.

I had a lawn business years ago in the DC area, and it's really tough to make decent money without scale. Had one good cash cow: with three guys, I'd do 44 lawns every other Thursday. Slumlord owned about 3 consecutive blocks of Section 8 duplexes in a rough part of town. Small, flat, identical lawns with no landscaping or fences, and all in a row, it took about nine and a half hours of pure hustle and paid $1400. God bless that dirtbag.

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