Next to the piles stands a line of landscapers who have signed up for the leaf blower exchange.

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The day before, he'd been a gardener and used a leaf blower for the first time in his life.

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It's like fabricating a duel between a salad spinner and a leaf blower.

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After the competition, the bee beard can be removed in seconds with a little shake over the hive and some help from a leaf blower.

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For a mere 20-pound machine, you wouldn't think a leaf blower could produce as much pollution as a one and half ton automobile.

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Clean air advocates think the leaf blower exchange program is a better way to meet these limits, than trying to ban the devices.

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The district has launched a pilot program to offer landscape workers a good deal on 1500 of the industry's cleanest and quietest leaf blower, if they trade-in their old blowers.

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"I'm more like a leaf blower, " Petrov said.

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The turbo comes on like a leaf blower.

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I've put up with the neighbor who hired a couple of guys to remove paint from his house with an electric scraper and then disappeared for the weekend, the neighbor who uses a leaf blower at 10 at night, the neighbor who whacks weeds on Father's Day, the most immoral act known to man.

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