If you have 30 40-60' oak trees on your property, you probably live on a huge piece of land, where maybe that garden tool could be useful and your closest neighbors are far away. I'm complaining about the small city and suburban plots, where they are overkill and unnecessary noise makers.
?? What would the size of the property have to do with how old, and thus large, an oak is? I have two in my back yard that are at least 50' tall and a good 1/3rd of one hangs over into my neighbor's yard, which he enjoyed having shade from, until he decided to put a pool in.
Now he times his pool opening (uncovering) date based on right after the moss falls off in the spring, and the closing date right before the leaves fall in great #s in the fall.
It's not the size of the property, it's the amount of leaves. You would be welcome to come rake up my leaves in fall if I didn't mow just to mulch them (even if the grass didn't need cut), 'cuz I'm simply not going to manually rake that many leaves over and over again several times every fall.
I used to use a leaf blower to make some leaf mulch out of maybe 1/4th of them to put around flower beds but it took too much of a toll on my blower, which I got tired of completely disassembling to clean all the leaf dust muck out of.
I do understand about the noise though, but at the same time, you have to accept that if you live near other people. They can make as much noise as they want as long as they're not breaking any ordinances, doing something excessive or too late at night.
