Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers

Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down due
to the ice, portable generators.

Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid of
the screaming leaf blowers.

Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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| Andrew Sarangan wrote:
| As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious
| lawn mowers, not just one, but a whole battalion of them, I can't help
| but wonder what happened to all the peace of quietness this day is
| supposed to typify. Whats up with this riutal of mowing your lawn
| early Xmas morning, in below freezing temperatures? Our whole family
| was up angry and irritated at the high decibel noise outside our
| bedroom windows. We live under a busy airport traffic pattern, and I
| can't ever remember being woken up by airplane noise. But the same
| neighborhood that complains about airplane noise seems to think
| nothing of lawn mowers and leaf blowers that run for many hours
| straight right outside their windows. It's much worse in the summer,
| but it seems winter is no exception either.
|
| I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn
| mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution.
|
|
|
| You obviously live too far south. The snow here in PA keeps the
| lawnmowers silent for 6 months of the year at least.
|
| Matt

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:16:06 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
wrote:



Bring back manual shovels in the winter,


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I'll push a reel mower, rake the leaves, and hand work my woodworking,
but the taking away my snowblower is fightin' words! G

The standard square point dirt shovel is best for snow, it will also chop
ice. It won't break your back either. The big blade snow shovels work fine
with 1/2 inch of snow, but are nearly useless with a 2-3 foot drift.


"B A R R Y" wrote in message
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| On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:16:06 -0600, "Jim Macklin"
| wrote:
|
|
|
| Bring back manual shovels in the winter,
|
|
| Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
|
| I'll push a reel mower, rake the leaves, and hand work my woodworking,
| but the taking away my snowblower is fightin' words! G

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
...
The standard square point dirt shovel is best for snow, it will also chop
ice. It won't break your back either. The big blade snow shovels work
fine
with 1/2 inch of snow, but are nearly useless with a 2-3 foot drift.
Not that I have had to shovel much snow here in NC, but I did living near
Lake Erie, long ago.

I like the new snow shovels with the funky handles that allow you to work
standing up straight. I have a very bad back, (two unsuccessful surgeries)
so that is the first consideration!
A spud bar and a flat scraper is what I use on ice.

Best of all, in NC, if you wait one or two days, 90% of the time, the snow
will remove itself!
--
Jim in NC

I bought a snowblower attachment for my string trimmer. I looked at thing
in the store, and thought that can't possibly work- it looks like a toy. To
my surprise, it is fantastic for light work. I have a 150 ft driveway with
a 20% slope, and I've done the whole thing in a few minutes with up to 4" of
snow. I was amazed at how well it worked.

I like the new snow shovels with the funky handles that allow you to work
standing up straight. I have a very bad back, (two unsuccessful
surgeries) so that is the first consideration!
A spud bar and a flat scraper is what I use on ice.

"LWG" wrote in message
. ..
I bought a snowblower attachment for my string trimmer. I looked at thing in the store,
and thought that can't possibly work- it looks like a toy. To my surprise, it is
fantastic for light work. I have a 150 ft driveway with a 20% slope, and I've done the
whole thing in a few minutes with up to 4" of snow. I was amazed at how well it worked.

Which model is that?

Ryobi.

"John Mazor" wrote in message
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"LWG" wrote in message
. ..
I bought a snowblower attachment for my string trimmer. I looked at thing
in the store, and thought that can't possibly work- it looks like a toy.
To my surprise, it is fantastic for light work. I have a 150 ft driveway
with a 20% slope, and I've done the whole thing in a few minutes with up
to 4" of snow. I was amazed at how well it worked.

Which model is that?

On 2007-12-26 17:36:46 -0800, "Morgans" said:



Best of all, in NC, if you wait one or two days, 90% of the time, the snow
will remove itself!

That is true around here in the Puget Sound area, too! Actually, our
weather is often compared to that of Atlanta, GA, only not so hot in
the summer. We get more rain, especially last year. :-)
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

Jim Macklin wrote:
Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down due
to the ice, portable generators.

Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid of
the screaming leaf blowers.

Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.

You are on a slippery slope, Jim. If you ban virtually any of the
above, then banning airplanes for noise is easy. Actually, even I can
easily make the case that chainsaws for clearing ice-felled trees is
more of an imperative than almost any GA flying that is done other than
organ transplants.

Matt

sarcastic humor.



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...
| Jim Macklin wrote:
| Snowmobiles, snow blowers, chain saws clearing the trees that fell down
due
| to the ice, portable generators.
|
| Bring back manual shovels in the winter, rakes in the summer and get rid
of
| the screaming leaf blowers.
|
| Jet skis on the pond, 1,000,ooo watt amps on the beach for the concert.
|
| You are on a slippery slope, Jim. If you ban virtually any of the
| above, then banning airplanes for noise is easy. Actually, even I can
| easily make the case that chainsaws for clearing ice-felled trees is
| more of an imperative than almost any GA flying that is done other than
| organ transplants.
|
| Matt