Is 8am too early to start mowing?

[WolfeMacleod]

8am on Saturday is not too early to mow, as long at 3am on Monday is not too early to fire up to 100watt Marshall stack and point it at your house

[GH85Carrera]

If it is going to be a triple digit temperature day, I will get started at 8:00 AM.

[DARISC]

Originally Posted by Oh Haha

I didn't want to annoy them by mowing why would I go to their house and bother them?

Your neighbors would be that easily annoyed and bothered? By you being polite and asking them?

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by nostatic

I would consider launching mortar rounds at someone who fired up a lawnmower close to my place on a Saturday before 10am. 8am is ridiculous. I rarely get to sleep before midnight, and usually my best sleep is between 6-10am for some reason. Since I can't sleep that late on the weekdays due to the boy and work, the weekends are the only time.

Thank you god for another "normal" person. The human body was not made to get up before 10am... EVER.....

8am? WTF...? do you people go to bed at 9pm???

our neighborhood has a 9am rule and if i hear anything at 8:59 or earlier, Im reporting them. That goes for all the *****ING BARKING DOGS also...

rant over.. lol...

[desertt5]

When I lived in Yuma, AZ, 8 a.m. was fine. Anywhere else: too early IMO. 9a.m. GTG.

[911Rob]

another simple fix....
move where you have no neighbours!

I can mow anytime I like; pic:

[john70t]

Originally Posted by Jim Bremner

I live in a town that regulates EVERY THING!

7 am is the law to use heavy equipment and leaf blowers here.

The City's Gardner's building is 100 yards from my bedroom window. I sleep with the windows open.

They start engines and back up heavy trucks with the BEEP BEEP alarms at 6:30!

I've fired off many emails but the mayor could give a rat's balloon knot.

With video-in-hand and a few rational meetings with the city planning commision, you might have cause to get issued a varience permit for a fence over 6 feet.

The need, and cost, for it might be negotiatable when it comes down quality-of-life issues.
Heck, in Cali, chicks have gotten millions for coworkers looking at the NSFW dress attire. What's a good night's sleep worth?

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by DARISC

Your neighbors would be that easily annoyed and bothered? By you being polite and asking them?

Of course... the "confused emoticon" is perfect for you.

Go back to his OP, read it, then look at the time stamp.

I know it's difficult for you, but at least try to keep up, bubba.

[nostatic]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

If it is going to be a triple digit temperature day, I will get started at 8:00 AM.

So because you don't like to be uncomfortable instead you disturb everyone around you?

If you're too wimpy to mow the lawn when it's hot, then maybe you should consider an apartment

Or what is wrong with doing it at 8pm?

[DARISC]

From the internet...which is always right:

The risk to the grass from mowing is that the grass blade once cut open is susceptible to infection by fungus. So what is really needed is for the grass to have a chance to heal as quickly as possible and for that it needs to be dry. So the best time would be late morning on a clear day, giving the dew a chance to clear and giving the grass the bulk of the day to dry off. Also, you don't want to mow wet ground because the soil will become compacted, so water the day before, or if the weather is rainy, mow a day after it has stopped raining. The other things which one should keep in mind when mowing to reduce lawn stress are keep the blade sharp, which makes a clean, small wound to the blade (a dull blade will make a jagged rip) and to mow frequently enough so that no more than 1/3 of the blade is removed (sometimes this means mowing more than once a week, sometimes it means you can wait 2 weeks).

The same logic, BTW, applies to watering. You want to keep the grass wet for as short as possible becase fungus likes water. So water deeply (most people don't) and only when necessary, and do it in the morning (like 9-10 AM) on a clear day giving the grass the day to dry out (some people water early AM to avoid competition for water pressure or due to local ordinance but this leaves the grass wet longer). Sometimes I will water during a light rain or heavy dew since the grass is already wet. If the weather is extremely hot it is ok to water the lawn at midday to cool it off (11-12AM, usually against local ordinance) and doing this prevents some kinds of fungus.

[msublett]

I never have understood why they say not to water at night. It does rain overnight and I don't have a fungus problem.

[Scuba Steve]

In central TX they bust people for watering during the day. It's a different mindset here - gotta conserve water and it won't evaporate as fast overnight.

Never knew anybody who had fungus in their grass FWIW.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Scuba Steve

In central TX they bust people for watering during the day. It's a different mindset here - gotta conserve water and it won't evaporate as fast overnight.

Never knew anybody who had fungus in their grass FWIW.

We get a fungus down here, later in the summer. It leads to round brown patches.

[nynor]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

no, but 9AM would be better.

+1 and i like to sleep in. but, 8AM, the sun is up, have at it.

[Scuba Steve]

Originally Posted by red-beard

We get a fungus down here, later in the summer. It leads to round brown patches.

Must be too dry in SA for any of that! Seems like it's always a drought in that part of the world.

[notfarnow]

My next door neighbor mows my lawn. I wouldn'd dare complain if he did THAT at 8am. Heck, I'd love to be cozy in bed and hear him out there. The sound of someone else working is a great sleep inducer

[Rick Lee]

I'm brand new to my neighborhood and the lady across the street fired up her leaf blower at 5:30am today and kept it going for no less than 45 min. It's starting to get hot here, but not that hot and I haven't even turned on the a/c yet, which means my windows are open. 5:30 is ridiculous. I will have a chat with her. I don't want to make enemies of my neighbors, but I'd rather have some sleep than someone who waves at me once in a while when I pull into the driveway.

[The Gaijin]

They are early risers out west. But 5:30 for a leaf blower?

Ha, I think she knows exactly what she is doing.

[nostatic]

I'd be doing some 2am Van Halen riffs in that case. 5:30am is downright rude, and certainly not legal in my neighborhood.

[stomachmonkey]

Was sitting around one night, it's after 10 pm. Hear this strange sound, thought it was the central AC unit acting up. Head to back of house to check on it. See thru the windows that the neighbor behind us has his yard lit up like a landing strip.

Step outside and he's got the weed whacker going, WTF?

Hear his wife yelling at him, he's yelling back.

Now this was the 1st time he'd ever done something like this.

Figured let me give it 10 minutes and see where it goes.

He was done in 5.