Major John’s going to be angry with me again, but, as much as I like and admire him (and I do), I can’t help making fun of teasing Glenn Reynolds when he posts these (and I like reading them!):
OKAY, SO I HAVE A PRETTY NICE ELECTRIC BLOWER-VAC, except that the vac attachment got smashed and it would probably cost more to replace it than to just get a whole new blower. I’d be happy to just buy another—it’s been fine and it’s pretty cheap—but I wonder if there’s a cordless blower-vac that works well enough to be worth buying. Everything I can find seems kind of wimpy, with disclaimers like this: “While this blower provides adequate air velocity for doing maintenance cleaning in the areas mentioned above, it is not designed to be a blower for use in moving fall leaves on the lawn.” Am I just asking too much?
I find the blower-vac one of the most useful yard tools out there. What’s your favorite?
What, doesn’t he have a hovercraft? This one’s nice.
But, to be serious, for a moment, my favorite yard tool is probably my Army surplus flamethrower.
Disclaimer: Dan Collins is not now, and never has been, Jeff Goldstein, who has received great support from Glenn Reynolds, who is an excellent person, and whom we owe much to for that alone.
Iowahawk channels The Lancet and Dan Simpson at that same time. Warning: Manliness on display
I find the blower-vac one of the most useful yard tools out there.
Somehow I doubt his neighbors would agree – unless there is a viable market for selling used Instapundit leaves…
Gotta wonder bout that instaguy. He’s uses a fossil-fuel generated energy consuming computer to activate a lifestyle where every American home change their old-fashioned light bulbs to a new fashion ‘energy saving’ mercury bulbs but won’t use a rake to tend to his own immediate environment.
A nice electric blower/vac, his favorite outdoor tool.
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Rakes are powered by creatures that are often powered, at least in part, by beef, the production of which causes deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions.
Electric blower/vac? We’re must be talking zero lot line. Plug me up, baby.
Then, he wonders about a “cordless blower-vac”. Hmmmph. Such things, electric, wouldn’t have enough power to blow off a small one-bedroom apartment’s patio, unless he carried a fuel-cell in a backpack.
Now my Stihl BG-65D comes highly recommended. Two-cycle, neighbor-vexing and definitely better than anything from Wal-Mart, Home Despot, or BLowes.
I would love to see PW make more of a play for Amazon coin. Reynolds is absolutely right that what we buy matters. It’s all basic invisible hand-y stuff, really. But I think the lightbulb fetish is more his way of straddling the global warming thing so he can preserve his respectability amongst the academy and NPR producers. But I may just be grumpy cause my coffee went bad.
happy,
I think he’s honestly trying to lower his electricity bill, so he can afford better stuff. He likes stuff. I would too, if I weren’t raising these Monsterlings.
It’s hard to know what happens in the dugout over at Instapundit – I could be out in left field on this one.
Heh. Indeed.
That’s no hovercraft.
THIS is a hovercraft:
Landing Craft Air Cushion
TW: United States Marine corps19.
CUT THAT OUT, JEFF!!!!
I don’t have much of an opinion on lawn tools, but it’s scary how little Iowahawk actually changed that loon’s column.
I am starting to suspect my neighbors are less than honest,
Me: God I hate mowing the lawn.
Him: Really? I love yardwork.
Me: Seriously?
Him: Oh yeah, working in the yard is one of my favorite things in the world.
Me: Well I really love fishing, so how about this weekend I borrow your bass boat and you can do my yard?
You don’t happen to live in Arlen, TX, do you, B Moe?
Once again we learn that those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it. Ove 100 years ago down in Africa we learned about the conflicts these things can cause. Yes, I’m talking about the Blower Wars..