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“Blower Bands”
Title: “Blower Bands”
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 303 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
“Blower Bands”
“Blower Bands”
Power blowers have replaced brooms, rakes and hoses, along with the man-hours that are required to use them. “ They have become useful tools for turf maintenance professionals and others who use them for a variety of tasks from cleaning up twigs and grass clippings to clearing out screens, eves and gutters. But, Excessive noise from power equipment is a concern nationwide. In some areas of the country, city council’s are responding to …showed first 75 words of 303 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 303 total…nearly unthinkable…. From New York to California, from Texas to Illinois communities are initiating legislation to ban gas-powered blowers and other lawn and garden maintenance equipment. ”
Legislation like this can significantly affect golf course maintenance. Will landscapers and other ground maintenance people be told that they have to put down their leaf blowers in favor of push brooms? Only time will tell.
Robin Pendergrast, The sound of fury, Golf Course Maintenance Magazine, page 160, February, 1999
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