kins

Most of the above but no sausages by mail... yet...

RoadWarriorFromLP

That isn't a lawnmower. THIS is a lawnmower:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe5ldu2jB2E

petitefrancaise

not one but 2 leafblowers.......F*****ing leaves.

Pest control service....Texas and it's sodding insects.

Pulaski

You need a backpack leafblower, it's the only way to go - handheld ones are about as useful as blowing through a straw and only last three years, if you are lucky.

So back to the thread topic .....

A backpack leaf blower.

petitefrancaise

I think we're about to give in ......

so to add to my list - garden/lawn service.

N1cky

Bloody leaf blowers should be banned. Get a rake and a brush .

Yorkieabroad

Ahem, mine is the one for discerning gentlemen of a certain age, and arthritic knees to match - I don't think I could ever buy something without automatic running boards and a built in tailgate step. So uncouth. So uncivilized. So hard to get into

WEBlue

I have to agree. I've never heard a louder piece of so-called garden equipment--what a bl##dy racket!!

Pulaski

I do have work to do other than sweep and rake leaves from August to December.

I have about 2.5 acres of lawns and over 600ft of driveway, over half of which is gravel and therefore can't be either swept or raked. Short of finding a sorcerer's apprentice who can do with a rake what Goethe's sourcerer's apprentice did with a broom, a backpack blower is the only practical and cost effective solution.
My backpack blower is, I believe, quieter than my ride-on mower (which is a twin cylinder model and not extraordinarily loud). As my blower can clear leaves much more quickly than a puny hand-held blower I don't need to use the backpack blower for anywhere near as long as I would a handheld blower for the same task - e.g. I can clear the driveway in a single pass, sweeping back and forth while walking at a moderate pace.

lansbury

We now have one of those

+ Pork Pies by mail order.

+ 65" TV - never have got one in our house in London. (Hayes)

N1cky

They drive me up the ****ing wall. Not to mention the environmental impact.

You don't need to clear your 2.5 acres of lawn of the leaves though. Parks in the UK manage to function perfectly well with leaves on the grass. I've got no idea why people have such an issue with it over here.

Bob

Or a Brazilian....might be a Mexican down your way, but that might sound a bit worse, if not as dirty

Pulaski

Tell that to my "grass" which buried under 3"-6" of leaves, mulched or otherwise, tends to respond by dying. ..... As I noted previously there is a big difference in tending grass surrounding a tree and grass surrounded by trees.

N1cky

I thought you were answering the title question, with a "Brazilian" I was wondering if it was you or your wife, until I read on

They're the worse with them. Rain or shine (not that we get much rain) they're out with the ******* things, sometimes I can hear 3 of them at once. They spend hours trying to blow wet leaves into a pile that's off their territory, or worse still when it's dry they just blow them off the HOA section, into the public section, then wait for the wind to blow them back and come do it all over again.

Bob

Green lawn care, now that's something for the peeve thread