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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of my father. He's up super early, like 4 am, and to him 7 am is perfectly late enough to run the wood planer on a weekend day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What time is polite on the ‘weekend’?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i used to work at a customer service call centre, we had a rule against making outbound calls before 9am

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lawns are one of the stupidest things Americans obsess about.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no mention of lawns in the post. Is this maybe supposed to be a response in one of the comment threads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Ive often contemplated replacing the muffler on my rider with one designed for a passenger car

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I swear my upstairs neighbors have bowling balls where other people have feet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I’ve never seen a video THIS relatable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Kind of needs more context. 11 am is morning.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

There’s no time of day I should be able to hear your music in my own home with all doors and windows closed.

Car or house work noise tho? I’m cool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I can hear people have a normal conversation on the street from inside my house. The walls are thin enough to let in and out all sound, but thick enough to keep in the heat in winter.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

riding lawnmower comes screaming out of the garage at its max speed of 5 mph, the driver dual wielding leaf blowers

skeleton-guns-akimbo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

When you inhale 5 lead grillman

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Moving blankets are a wonderful solution. Hang them over your windows and enjoy the quiet. Get thick ones. Uhaul has good ones.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, my wife keeps asking if it would be rude to mow the lawn at 7AM on a Saturday. With the electric mower.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

and you said yes, of course I can only hope.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Modern electric mowers are actually very quiet, they're not your parents electric mower that's for sure lol

Mine is so quiet not only do I not need to worry about ear protection, you can't even hear it from inside my own house so def none of the neighbors will be able to hear it either lol

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What lawn mower do you have that is that quiet??? I have a Ryobi electric push mower that I bought last year and while it's way quieter than a gas mower I would feel incredibly rude using it early in the morning.

And noise is different depending on time of day. Ambient noise is a lot lower in off-hours, so your mower would sound louder than it does during the day.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was riding up the street on my bicycle the other day and actually stopped and backtracked to ask my neighbor what kind of mower he was using because I was so impressed at how quiet it was. Turns out it was a Ryobi (one of their brushless 40V models, which might matter).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Based on the design I think this is the one I have: https://www.ryobitools.com/products/details/46396037169#

It does say "brushless" but they've got a fair few different varieties. I don't know, I mean like I said it is significantly quieter than a gas mower. It's a good mower. But I don't think it's anywhere near quiet enough to consider using it during off hours.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Look, if you live somewhere that the sun makes you regret existence (read: everywhere in 10 years), yard work is getting done in the morning, car work is getting done in the evening.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I have neither a yard nor a car, what do I do on a Saturday

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

You don't have any yardwork or car problems to deal with, so whatever the hell you want, I presume.

Except sleep without earplugs, I guess that's out.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because a two-stroke engine that is more polluting than a full size SUV many times over making a lot of noise and releasing a lot of byproduct poisons into the air is vastly preferable to using a fucking rake. grillman

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Look how lucky you are. Mine desides 23:00 is the perfect time to start drilling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doing the lawn after dark seems so unwholesome. Which is annoying because I could use a 25° drop in temperature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

What about flying a kite in the dark?

And depending on the size of your lot, maybe you could use a reel mower. They're nearly silent!

You could also use a scythe, but that sounds like a lot more work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ahhhhhhhh country living is amazing. Not one neighbor.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My parents live in the country. They have one neighbor. He's on meth so he likes to start chainsawing right around dark and continues until around 2am.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Just get him more meth. He'll stop soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Yea well no neighbors is the only way to go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Back in CA, there was a total grillman , appearance and all, that'd roll down the street in a golf cart with a massive sound system filling the entire rear behind his seat, and he'd blast out absolute trash dadrock with huge floor-shaking subwoofers, and do it all with this empty gammon grin behind his wrap-around polarized sunglasses, going back and forth at least twice a week around the same time.

He was still not as divorced as my-hero though.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Depends on what time, for me

After about 10am is pretty fair game if a noisy job needs doing IMO. If it's music and not obnoxiously loud, that's probably fine too

Anyone making any noise before that though absolutely should get in the sea

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, doing my work around the house after worktime at 7PM weekdays is also not going to be very popular.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

I'll take 8pm vacuuming over 8am vacuuming any day

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