Is 8am too early to start mowing?
 

I have my plan and prepped the yard last night(picked up sticks, rocks, etc.).

It was getting dark so I planned to do the yard this morning so that it will look good for the long weekend.

We live in a small town, several blocks in from the main road.

Would it be rude to start the power tools up at 8am on a Saturday?

no, but 9AM would be better.

Our deed restrictions say 9am, but if I hear someone else mowing, then I'm out there too.

If you were my neighbor, I'd shoot your lawnmower... :D

9:00 makes you a good nieghbour

I think 8 is fine. No earlier though.

Is the grass dry? If so - fire it up!
Anybody needing that much sleep shouldnt be bothered by a mower.

Some of us feel that 8am is too early for just about anything.

Not if you're drinking a beer! :eek:

I wouldn't mow before noon.


But that's just cuz I don't like getting out of bed before noon...


But if my neighbor started mowing at 7 or 8 and woke me up. Well his mower might just have a new drain in the crankcase...

I agree 8am is marginal. I rarely get to sleep that late (LOL) anymore but when I do, it's usually Saturday and I'm dead-a$$ tired and mowers and blowers are not my preferred method of being awakened.

I've been trying to figure-out how the trash trucks get away with coming at 6-6:30am these days, waking up the whole friggen neighborhood.

I'd wait until 9. For the record, I always mow on Thursday evenings; that way I always can enjoy my yard on the weekends.

I'm always up by 5, usually earlier.
but I understand that others are not.
Some folks like to sleep in a little on weekends.
You could mow at 8:00am, but it would probably result in someone thinking that you are a horse's rear. I wouldn't mow that early.

Unless you live in a very hot area, 10am is plenty early for power tools.

8am is way too early IMO.

They fired up a concrete saw to cut our driveways this morning at 9 AM in the continuing road/curb/sidewalk work. That was early enough.

Ian

I had a neighbor who used to party late into the night. It was LOUD. Every time he did that I would fire up my motorcycle the next morning at 0600. Right outside his bedroom window. It had straight pipes. He would stick his head out the window, curse like hell, then laugh. It became a joke.

Bob: "I'm having another party tonight!"

Me: "OK. I'll gas up the bike."

Bob: (laughing) "F-you!"

Me: "See you in the morning."

I started mowing at 8 and thought, is this too early? Then I come in for a break and see this.

I'm surprised to read so many responses that agree with my own sensibilities. I think 8am is fine, and I'm NOT a "morning person." I just expected most people to say that 8am would be more than late enough to start. Maybe I need to move west.

Here in the midwest, well, St. Louis is an EARLY, EARLY town. If it were not so frowned upon, there would be people mowing at 6am all the time, and not just because of the summer heat.

It's much better for the grass to cut it late in the day and let dew coat the fresh cuts than to have them burn in the sun. FWIW.

I usually do this as well but we had stuff going on that night so I couldn't.

BTW-I flipped the tv on at 8 and found BBQ University had 2 episodes back to back so I didn't get to the yard until after 9.:D

I did the full boogie treatment today so it will look tidy for several days. I even re-hung my swingin' chair in the big oak tree.

Plus, I decided that the mailbox needed re-freshing so I primered that for paint later.

If I do mow on Sundays I always wait until at least 10 am.

That's a good tip, Denis. I've never heard that before except for when to water.

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.

Right next to the Gardner's building there's a tennis court. Some summer nights people like to play till 11 ! The lights do turn off at 11 so most people leave.

I've have to call the cops once or twice a month for people playing in the dark @ 2 am!

I get woken up several times a week at 6:30 by tennis players or Gardner's.

I will relish the day that I sell my house.

HOOT! Spoken like a true Californian. Up here, we mow when we get a dryish day. I plan on mowing later today...probably start around 1 or 2, end around 5 or 6.

Yeah...8 is too soon.

In San Antinio it gets nasty hot in the summer. 8am doesn't sound unreasonable, but 8pm would probably be better. You really have two choices - in the morning at 75-80 degrees / 100% humidity or when it's dusk at 95 degrees and a lower humidity. Neither are any fun.

I have a gardner, he mows the lawn sometime on Wednesday afternoons.

8AM is too early for mowing, but not for sawing logs :)

If you live in the south, you mow around 7:00am, or 7:00pm. By 9:00am it's way to friggin' hot.

8AM = too early, especially on the weekend.
Better to do it the night before, @ 7pm-ish then relax with a scotch and cigar admiring your work and the sunset. :D

8 AM is ok for weekdays, 9.00 AM for weekends.

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.

It can easily be ~100 around here by 10AM during the Summer. I try to wait until I hear at least one other person mowing, but I tend to mow whenever I feel I have less of a chance of stroking out in the yard from the heat. It has been raining in the afternoon here for the last three days. I can hear my grass growing right now :)

Ah - low, sustained, booming noises. Nine, nine-fifteen.

+1

Why ask here? Why not ask the neighbors that you are concerned about offending?

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I would never mow before 10 AM. Lots of folks work late and sleep in. If my neighbor was out mowing at 8 AM...I would probably mow mine about 2 AM and see if he likes it.

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

It was more of a general question anyway.

Sure ya can mow at 8am, as long as you don't mind me playing my guitar at 3am

What St. Louis do YOU live in?

On the weekdays you have to get up for work anyway so if you sleep till 8am you need to get up anyway. On the weekends I need quite till at least 9am. Like yesterday for instance, I tied one on Friday night and some idiot thought 8am was fine to mow. It was like a jackhammer in the middle of my head. Too early! Shhhhhh quiet.