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Post by chils on Nov 7, 2020 22:56:24 GMT -6
I made some progress this weekend. Cleaned up the backyard yesterday and the front today. There aren't many leaves left on trees and it's been warm and dry here so picking up the leaves with the vacuum attachment on the leaf blower was easy. My wife and I were walking yesterday and a guy had this... His approach was simple. Just blow all of the leaves out of his yard into the street and onto his neighbors yard. Seriously. As we walked we watched him send leaves everywhere. I could see this device working well for someone with a ton of leaves but just sending them flying to all other properties or into the street? Come on now. Glad you got yours taken care of. Mine is a total disaster area again but ~75% of the leaves are down now. I'd love to have that big blower because I don't have neighbors nearby. Guys like that are why I live in the woods. Got sick of douchebags living near me.
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Post by OldMan on Nov 7, 2020 23:14:14 GMT -6
Maybe the machine was operating him instead of him operating the machine
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Post by chils on Nov 7, 2020 23:55:11 GMT -6
Maybe the machine was operating him instead of him operating the machine In mother Russia...
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Post by Ken on Nov 8, 2020 7:42:08 GMT -6
In some areas you can pile your leaves on the parkway and a village truck will come back and suck them up for you. However, this is not one of those areas. Your choices are 1) Rake them yourselves or 2) Just screw the leaves and let the wind do with them what you want. This guy came up with option 3) Send them over to the neighbor's yard. Leaves blow everywhere and fall everywhere. The leaves from my big Ash tree blew all over into two or three of my neighbors yards just because of how the wind was blowing. I feel bad about it but they all have landscape services so it's not like the neighbors have to dedicate their weekend to picking up my leaves. I also get other neighbor's leaves in my yard so it's a universal thing. This guy sending the leaves to his neighbor's is a dick move and if he were to leave them in the street that's another dick move because they clog the sewers. It may just be that his elevator doesn't go all the way to the top but if that's the case, he probably shouldn't have such a sophisticated piece of lawn equipment.
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Post by chils on Nov 8, 2020 8:21:07 GMT -6
In some areas you can pile your leaves on the parkway and a village truck will come back and suck them up for you. However, this is not one of those areas. Your choices are 1) Rake them yourselves or 2) Just screw the leaves and let the wind do with them what you want. This guy came up with option 3) Send them over to the neighbor's yard. Leaves blow everywhere and fall everywhere. The leaves from my big Ash tree blew all over into two or three of my neighbors yards just because of how the wind was blowing. I feel bad about it but they all have landscape services so it's not like the neighbors have to dedicate their weekend to picking up my leaves. I also get other neighbor's leaves in my yard so it's a universal thing. This guy sending the leaves to his neighbor's is a dick move and if he were to leave them in the street that's another dick move because they clog the sewers. It may just be that his elevator doesn't go all the way to the top but if that's the case, he probably shouldn't have such a sophisticated piece of lawn equipment. Prolly right on the mental assessment. When I lived in town I had a neighbor who would throw his tobacco spit cup paper towels in the street then it would blow up in his yard and he'd mow it. Always shreds of paper blowing around. He'd throw rotten food between our fences where the utility access was and wouldn't mow the grass there (I did) so I started chucking it back over his fence and that stopped. We were in a cul-de-sac and someone started dumping cat litter where the circle ended and my other neighbors yards met mine. I called the city and they put up a "no dumping, $250 fine" sign down there. A couple weeks later guess who was bitching because they couldn't dump there anymore lol. Dude was a habitual liar and his wife ended up doing jail time for embezzling from her company. Probably his idea.
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Post by shaggaroo on Nov 8, 2020 8:43:41 GMT -6
We put ours in the street, then the city scoops them up. This is about a 1/4 of the leaves we've got with leaves still on the trees. And the city has recently started putting these around the neighborhood. We can put brush, grass clippings, leaves in it and the city eventually hauls it away. But the city also takes the leaves they've scooped up and dumps them in here...
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Post by Ken on Nov 8, 2020 8:47:21 GMT -6
The Klopeks have some of that too. Shit from their yard blows all over and ends up in other yards because they're either too lazy to do anything or they simply don't see it. They had their siding replaced and the siding company let wrappers and shit blow ALL OVER and no one picked it up. They just had part of their fence replaced this weekend. When I was out there raking leaves I found a bunch of scrap wood in my yard from the fence guys. Feck that... I chucked it back into their yard.
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Post by Ken on Nov 8, 2020 8:49:32 GMT -6
We put ours in the street, then the city scoops them up. This is about a 1/4 of the leaves we've got with leaves still on the trees. And the city has recently started putting these around the neighborhood. We can put brush, grass clippings, leaves in it and the city eventually hauls it away. But the city also takes the leaves they've scooped up and dumps them in here... Yeah, that's cool. If there is a village gig that allows for that kind of pickup... giddy up. I wonder if there is something the village can do with that... compost it? Add it to mulch that they make from the trees, etc. I know burning leaves is a no-no so I wonder what a village does with 949 billion pounds of leaves.
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Post by chils on Nov 8, 2020 12:44:34 GMT -6
I got my post holes dug and posts set with a little help from my Mexican post hole digger. I pulled one small fencepost up with the loader and used its hole but had to fully dig the other one next to an existing post to get the right distance for my gates. So glad I reworked the loader to reach truck bed height. Gotta let the crete dry then hang the gates
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Post by Seven on Nov 9, 2020 7:35:07 GMT -6
Mowed/mulched yesterday for the 1st time in 2 weeks due to heavy dew and or rain preventing me from mowing. I live on a 2.3 acre lot that's mostly wooded so we get leaves out the wazoo. I'm typically mulching until the 1st week of December but I enjoy it most days and the chopped leaves are great for the soil..
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Post by chils on Nov 14, 2020 19:06:56 GMT -6
Worked my ass off today. I got the gates in and started clearing dead trees and saplings. Man I'm beat. Chainsawed 7+ dead rotten trees and a bunch of saplings. Not even close to done.
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Post by drez on Nov 14, 2020 19:12:07 GMT -6
I did that pallet trick a couple weeks ago, worked great.
I will be getting the rest of my leaves done tomorrow... Fingers crossed!
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Post by chils on Nov 14, 2020 19:12:28 GMT -6
Here's top down shot from my upstairs bathroom to give you an idea of my leaf nightmare. Attachments:
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Post by chils on Nov 14, 2020 19:13:52 GMT -6
I did that pallet trick a couple weeks ago, worked great. I will be getting the rest of my leaves done tomorrow... Fingers crossed! Yeah, it's perfect for hauling stuff longer than the bucket is wide.
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Post by chils on Nov 15, 2020 20:06:11 GMT -6
Ended up pulling down a leaning tree where I intended to push leaves. I pull down standing dead most times due to the danger of being under them. Get the stump most times. I built a cable setter that lets me push my pull point 20ft up the trunk from the ground. Attachments:
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