Man, I WISH I had a leaf blower when I was a kid. That would have been so handy! I asked my father for a weed whacker when they came out. He got mad at me and yelled and called it a toy. So, I started mowing my mom’s flowers instead of trimming the yard with the awful hand trimmer we had. It worked great! I told my mom about it decades later- and she got furious about it. LOL She never noticed at the time…
Man, I WISH I had a leaf blower when I was a kid. That would have been so handy! I asked my father for a weed whacker when they came out. He got mad at me and yelled and called it a toy. So, I started mowing my mom’s flowers instead of trimming the yard with the awful hand trimmer we had. It worked great! I told my mom about it decades later- and she got furious about it. LOL She never noticed at the time…
I would have though weed eaters would have been around for a very very long time.
There might have been gas powered weed whackers- but the rechargeable ones didn’t show up until the mid 70’s. They were affordable and plentiful.