Petrol powered hedge strimmers ...

[Shaun]

NOISY OR WHAT?

 

[XmisterIS]

Not as noisy or dusty as my rotary cutter with a masonry blade attached!

 

[Globalti]

...or my chainsaw! Now that's a real man's power tool, you can swagger around looking very important and boss people around as well as annoying your neighbours.

 

[Shaun]

 

[Shaun]

Just stuck my head out of the window - it's a leaf blower; what is the point of them? They just move the rubbish around. Mad!!

 

[XmisterIS]

Just stuck my head out of the window - it's a leaf blower; what is the point of them? They just move the rubbish around. Mad!!

One of my neighbours has one; their house looks like a showhome permanently, their car is always spotless and they never emerge from their house with even one hair out of place. It must take so much effort to live like that! As a family, they seem entirely devoid of any character, quirkyness or individuality. I'm just glad they don't live next door, they'd hate me with my "shabby chique" look that I go for with my frontage and driveway (basically neat and tidy-ish, but I couldn't be bothered to pull up the weeds until they start getting a bit wild!) The wife has more than once looked at me askance as I've emerged from my driveway on my motorbike, looking oily and scruffy. When I've said good morning to her in the past, she's responded with a curt "Good morning" and thin smile that says, "Ugh! Get away from me, peasant!" as she totters past in her designer clothes and high heels.

 

[Globalti]

Mmmm.... high heels! Does she hang her designer undies on the line?

 

[XmisterIS]

Mmmm.... high heels! Does she hang her designer undies on the line?

I don't know, I haven't crept into their garden, nude, at 10pm, to squat in a bush and try and catch a glimpse of her in the bedroom while I "amuse" myself ...

 

[Melonfish]

One of my neighbours has one; their house looks like a showhome permanently, their car is always spotless and they never emerge from their house with even one hair out of place. It must take so much effort to live like that! As a family, they seem entirely devoid of any character, quirkyness or individuality. I'm just glad they don't live next door, they'd hate me with my "shabby chique" look that I go for with my frontage and driveway (basically neat and tidy-ish, but I couldn't be bothered to pull up the weeds until they start getting a bit wild!) The wife has more than once looked at me askance as I've emerged from my driveway on my motorbike, looking oily and scruffy. When I've said good morning to her in the past, she's responded with a curt "Good morning" and thin smile that says, "Ugh! Get away from me, peasant!" as she totters past in her designer clothes and high heels.

to have such a pristine external image they must have a dark secret.
i'm talking alternative practices in either religion, bedroom or stamp collecting.

the safety word is "Ooooooooklahoma!"
pete

 

[Mr Phoebus]

STFU.

 

[Shaun]

STFU.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ... what a cracking find ...

 

[tyred]

Leaf blowers are extremely useful if you want to move a pile of leaves to another destination about 18 inches away.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

The council workers around my borough have got hugely powerful leaf blowers.

Ones where the motor straps to the back just like Ghostbusters.

 

[Rebel Ian]

My leaf blower is also a leaf sucker so I blast them all from the down the side of my house up to the back gate then suck them up in one go. You're right, it is bloody noisy though.

 

[Over The Hill]

My leaf blower is also a leaf sucker so I blast them all from the down the side of my house up to the back gate then suck them up in one go. You're right, it is bloody noisy though.

Why not suck them up as you go?

Is it not a bit like having a "blow" option on your vaccum and blowing all the dirt in the house into one corner before sucking it up.


I have a big Beech tree in my garden and it is either dropping leaves or beech nut shells. When neither are falling the hay lorry hits a branch over the road and drops hay! Blocks up all the gutters which is a pain. I leave it till it all goes soggy and then shovel it up . If it is not soggy then leave it and it will be someone elses problem when the wind blows.

I got 5 wheel barrows full last time i did it.