As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every neighbor has
a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes cutting grass and
the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash into someones elses yard.
Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me bonkers.
seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a need for a quiet
blower design...
"Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> That's one of my pet peeves, too. There's a guy about two blocks away from
me
> who insists on getting _every_single_blade_ of grass off of his driveway
after
> he mows. That blower runs for hours at a time. If he'd use a broom
instead, it
> would take less time, do a better job, and not annoy the neighbors... and
he
> wouldn't be so dang fat, either!
>
Holy Cow!!! Two blocks and you're complaining about the noise level? That
must be some loud lawn mower.
--
-Mike-
[email protected]
In article <[email protected]>, "mike hide" <[email protected]> wrote:
>As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every neighbor has
>a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes cutting grass and
>the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash into someones elses yard.
>
>Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me bonkers.
>seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a need for a quiet
>blower design...
That's one of my pet peeves, too. There's a guy about two blocks away from me
who insists on getting _every_single_blade_ of grass off of his driveway after
he mows. That blower runs for hours at a time. If he'd use a broom instead, it
would take less time, do a better job, and not annoy the neighbors... and he
wouldn't be so dang fat, either!
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
Ah ... a sure sign of getting old. When I was back in college, our
dorms used to blast 300 watt systems out the windows at each other.
These "sound wars" could go on all night long.
But we didn't care. After all, we were spoiled brats in college and
missing a morning class was not the worst thing that could happen.
Now when someone drives by with a boom-car, I have to shake my head in
wonder.
Where have all those young years gone?
Jack
mike hide wrote:
> As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every neighbor has
> a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes cutting grass and
> the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash into someones elses yard.
>
> Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me bonkers.
> seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a need for a quiet
> blower design...
>
>
David <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> mike hide wrote:
>
>> As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every
>> neighbor has a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes
>> cutting grass and the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash
>> into someones elses yard.
>>
>> Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me
>> bonkers. seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a
>> need for a quiet blower design...
>>
>>
> I'd love to see a leaf blower ordinance in my town. Every Monday,
> like clockwork, Mr. Bozo lawn service guy cranks up his gas powered
> leaf blower at 7:40 AM. Can you guess what I'd like to do with that
> thing? :)
>
> Dave
>
Here, they wait for 8 am, which I can handle.
The drip irrigation system in my yard coming on at 5:45 am, so that the
water pressure in the neighborhood is adequate, has the predictable
physiological effect. Has nothing to do with leaf blowers, however.
If there is a leaf blower going, I figure that a table saw, or dust
collector, or miter saw is fair game for me, too.
Patriarch
"mike hide" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every neighbor
> has a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes cutting grass
> and the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash into someones elses
> yard.
>
> Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me bonkers.
> seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a need for a
> quiet blower design...
The sound can travel some distance too.
My favorite neighbor likes to cut his law at dinner on the deck time on
Sunday evening. The SOB is retired and has all week to do it but nooooooo,
it has to be when you'd really like some quiet.
Another neighbor used to be that way. One day when he had a family picnic,
I fired up my mower and just let it sit at the property line for 10 minutes.
He learned that day and never did it again.
On 2 Sep 2005 10:09:17 -0700, the blithe spirit "Andy"
<[email protected]> clearly indicated:
>Yeah, have you noticed that people who need the exercise of a push
>mower or push broom tend not to use them? And the people who push
>their mowers look like they are triathletes? Generalizations, of
>course, but seem to be mostly true IME.
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http://diversify.com/et4.html (Look at the 9 other tees, too.)
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.-.
Life is short. Eat dessert first!
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mike hide wrote:
> As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every neighbor has
> a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes cutting grass and
> the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash into someones elses yard.
>
> Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me bonkers.
> seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a need for a quiet
> blower design...
>
>
I'd love to see a leaf blower ordinance in my town. Every Monday, like
clockwork, Mr. Bozo lawn service guy cranks up his gas powered leaf
blower at 7:40 AM. Can you guess what I'd like to do with that thing? :)
Dave
In article <[email protected]>, "Mike Marlow" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"Doug Miller" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>
>>
>> That's one of my pet peeves, too. There's a guy about two blocks away from
>me
>> who insists on getting _every_single_blade_ of grass off of his driveway
>after
>> he mows. That blower runs for hours at a time. If he'd use a broom
>instead, it
>> would take less time, do a better job, and not annoy the neighbors... and
>he
>> wouldn't be so dang fat, either!
>>
>
>Holy Cow!!! Two blocks and you're complaining about the noise level? That
>must be some loud lawn mower.
>
Leaf blower, actually... but yes, it is. Very loud.
--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:01:33 -0700, David <[email protected]> wrote:
>Jerry wrote:
>
>> I'm careful about throwing stones about lawn services. My workshop is
>> in my garage and when I crank up the shop vac along with the TS or
>> router or planer or ??? I make a lot of noise. Just a matter of time
>> before a neighbor complains to the homeowners association.
>>
>do you leave the door(s) open? My shop is in my garage and it really is
>hard to hear the DC and planer when the doors are closed. (I've got
>weatherstrip all around the door). I've got a/c now, so I can leave the
>doors closed on a hot day. Yeah!
>
>Dave
How do you keep the sawdust out of the A/C unit. Do you do anything in
addition to the normal filter on the air intake? I plan to air
condition my shop when I get it built.
John in SC
"mike hide" <[email protected]> writes:
> As each day goes by the more noise there is around here . every neighbor has
> a different "lawn service " that spend all of 5 minutes cutting grass and
> the next 30 blowing the clippings and odd trash into someones elses yard.
>
> Seems this happen every day of the week, it's about to drive me bonkers.
> seems to me there is some kind of local rules or at least a need for a quiet
> blower design...
Just wait for fuel prices to make scythe and rake cheaper, so that the
lawn service man pedalling along on his bike with a bike trailer for
the tools makes almost no noise (except at home where he hammers his
scythe...)
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Jerry wrote:
> I'm careful about throwing stones about lawn services. My workshop is
> in my garage and when I crank up the shop vac along with the TS or
> router or planer or ??? I make a lot of noise. Just a matter of time
> before a neighbor complains to the homeowners association.
>
do you leave the door(s) open? My shop is in my garage and it really is
hard to hear the DC and planer when the doors are closed. (I've got
weatherstrip all around the door). I've got a/c now, so I can leave the
doors closed on a hot day. Yeah!
Dave