Now it's a crime to use gas trimmers in my California city just as fire season kicks off...

[Liquidsilver]

And long grass that doesn't get cut is no danger of wildfires is it? Duhhh! Just so dumb.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Fire abatement goats in Oakland.

Goats - Oakland - LocalWiki

localwiki.org

 

[MoKelly]

My insurance company (State Farm) just cancelled my home owner's policy because they noticed that I had installed a wood stove in my new shop. The stove is put in according to all safety codes. It is not a matter of raising the rate. They will just not insure me. So Insurance companies aren't too far behind California in being stupid.

That happens quite often - not just by State Farm. For some reason (risk) insurance companies don’t want anything to do with wood stoves in unoccupied living areas - like garages, shops, barns.

If it’s in a living area, a stove is OK. If in a non-living area - no go.

MoKelly

 

[ultrarunner]

Read the fine print (and between the lines). When our lawmakers pass poorly-crafted or poorly-thought-out regulations, those regulations often come back to bite them. So as not to lose face with the vocal, often minority, agitators the initial rules were to satisfy, the lawmakers pass exceptions, usually buried in small print or unpublicized amendments.

Note that the by-law applies only to internal combustion leaf blowers and string trimmers. Chances are ultrarunner's handlebar trimmer can be fit with a brush-cutting or saw blade and likely was marketed as a "brush trimmer", "brush cutter", or "clearing saw" as opposed to a "string trimmer". Gyro Gearloose Gadfly might even come up with a coal or wood or brush-fired boiler, steam turbine-driven (i.e. external combustion) device that would be more noxious than than those the by-law bans.

Yes... had that thought and the blades are still legal but the heavy premium line is tops in performance on hillsides because one small rock and blade gone...

Spoke to city and fire department and Stihl... the FSA 135 battery brush cutter has no release date... local dealers are not restocking and their might be opportunity to by gas on closeout...

Fire Department vegetation management already many calls...

City said this is first step with end game the elimination of carbon based internal combustion... The actual text of the law spells it out...

 

[Steppenwolfe]

The Times They Are A Changin'...

 

[Industrial Toys]

They should ban every last unecessary motosport (cont Wide!) before they pick on tools!

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

And yet people stay there.

Greed?

Or, ...?

Running out of sympathy pretty fast for these idiot laws.

You guys stay, so you must like it.

 

[Citydude]

I'm so thankful I live in the free state of Wyoming. Well, Teton county excluded. They are fast becoming Jacksafornia.

 

[grsthegreat]

yup. Idaho where my fireplace and string trimmers run free

 

[grsthegreat]

one of my generator customers just told me his son is moving from Calif to Oklahoma to work for Cat, because the Cat dealer in calif where he works informed all the employees that Calif will be banning ALL diesel engines for use in their state soon...not sure when ban will take full effect. i hope they ban all diesel trucks and trains too. i want to see how they plan to get all their yuppy amazon purchases brought into the state. battery drones?