Make Like a Tree

I've lived in two apartment complexes in the last two years, and during the summer at each, a team of lawn care-type people has been sent out every morning in the summer. At 7:00 or 8:00 each morning, a whole swarm of guys with lawn mowers and leaf blowers goes out to have competitions to see who can make the most noise, and it continues all day. They were out there for at least eight hours today. How can one little apartment complex really require that much work? Is that even possible?

Well, no, of course it isn't. The roommates told me that they saw three of these guys outside today sitting in a parking space with their leaf blowers turned on, pointed at nothing in particular.