{"id":6023,"date":"2015-11-08T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2015-11-08T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:44:43","slug":"raking-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/08\/raking-leaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Raking Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.homehardware.ca\/en\/rec\/index.htm\/Outdoor-Living\/Yard-Maintenance\/Garden-Tools\/Rakes\/Lawn\/24-Poly-Fan-Rake\/_\/N-ntlk0\/Ne-lrsc\/No-24\/R-I5062344?Num=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.homehardware.ca\/products\/300\/50623441.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a>The last few weeks I&#8217;ve been watching the groundskeepers at my university clearing leaves with big gas leaf-blowers. It is loud and stinky and they don&#8217;t seem to be very efficient. It seems to take several minutes to clear about 20 square feet, and even then there are still quite a lot of leaves left behind. It also isn&#8217;t very &#8216;green&#8217;. I wondered what things like this cost.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of the giant fan rakes I see at the hardware store and figure raking with one of these is\u00a0probably not much harder physically than hauling that big blower around. It would likely cost less. It would certainly be a lot quieter AND it doesn&#8217;t emit greenhouse gases. It might even do a better job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw this on FaceBook:<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/april.medlen\/videos\/1004776669563491\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6025 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/snap02104-175x300.png\" alt=\"snap02104\" width=\"175\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/snap02104-175x300.png 175w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/snap02104.png 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"\/april.medlen\/videos\/vb.100000935012234\/1004776669563491\/?type=3\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/april.medlen\/videos\/1004776669563491\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/april.medlen\/videos\/1004776669563491\/\">WP_20151103_001.mp4<\/a>Mr. Inventor !!!<\/p>\n<p>This is just the front yard Brian Shreves<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/april.medlen\">April Medlen<\/a> on Tuesday, November 3, 2015<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that with a couple of attachments, maybe even a lighter weight plastic scoop this could be turned into something that works WAY better than those noisy, smelly, gas-guzzling leaf-blowers.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6023'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6023);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6023);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6023);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The last few weeks I&#8217;ve been watching the groundskeepers at my university clearing leaves with big gas leaf-blowers. It is loud and stinky and they don&#8217;t seem to be very efficient. It seems to take several minutes to clear about &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/11\/08\/raking-leaves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,14,351],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-6023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","tag-inventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1z9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6236,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2016\/05\/24\/worth-sharing-teaching-math-to-people-who-think-they-hate-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":6023,"position":0},"title":"Worth Sharing: Teaching Math to People Who Think They Hate It","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"May 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A popular Cornell professor tries to help language-arts types learn how to \"make math\" instead of just studying it. 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