• compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, that’s fair. Snow blowers as a personal purchase have always felt silly to me, since if needed you could always pay for a shovel/plow service that just come when it snows, so you don’t have an expensive appliance sitting around that might barely be used. Now I’m wondering what the cost comparison would look like between the two. I suppose it depends on how much snow you usually get

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      9 hours ago

      I see this as something that makes the services more affordable. A municipality might even be able to deploy them for seniors if they are efficient enough.

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        7 hours ago

        That would be a great application for it! Okay, I’m swayed in the other direction. For stuff like schools, churches, etc, I can see it making sense. Especially if the machines aren’t hard to maintain.