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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
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. |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
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 |
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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 ... | 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 |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
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 |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
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 ... | 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 |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
"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 |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
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 |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
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 |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:28:55 -0800 (PST), Andrew Sarangan
wrote: I've always been tempted to do a noise pollution study comparing lawn mowers to airplanes. This just might become my New Years resolution. Mowerlune? G I live too far north for mowing on Christmas, but I'm with ya'! |
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Merry Christmas and Lawn mowers
On 2007-12-26 08:28:55 -0800, Andrew Sarangan said:
As I woke up this fine christmas morning to the sound of obnoxious lawn mowers We woke up to snow. Another white Christmas. The mud in my yard is still knee deep, as it is for three or four houses on either side of us. I now have a huge gravel dike running along the stream bank in my yard, no grass and hardly any shrubs or roses left. We do have the water and mud cleared out of the house now, mostly, and the driveway is finally clear of the 18 inches of muck that was deposited on it. Several of the neighbors are using portable generators or tractors, trying to clear silt deposited almost a month ago. Count your blessings. -- Waddling Eagle World Famous Flight Instructor |
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