Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

[toast21602]

JFBB the weekend before Thanksgiving. Heard it here first. 

[indiggio]

14 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

Rain today.  Rain tomorrow.  Rain friday.  Cant get enough of it!!!  i thought it might never rain!!!

good news is, i have been reading about temperatures really cooling off.  Next week for the Poconos below.  Heading in the right direction.  I still need to manage my leaves though.  I hate wet leaves.  

Spent about 8 hours total this past weekend getting the matted leaves up out of the lawn.

[JFskiDan]

14 minutes ago, toast21602 said:

JFBB the weekend before Thanksgiving. Heard it here first. 

I will take that bet.  I think that will be tough to pull off.  i like betting.  

[JFskiDan]

12 minutes ago, indiggio said:

Spent about 8 hours total this past weekend getting the matted leaves up out of the lawn.

I blow them kind of into a pile in different areas of the lawn, then take my neighbors mulching mower and mulch the piss out of them.  This works really well when they are dry.  This works like ass when they are wet.  I have a feeling they will be wet this weekend.  i really hate having un-managed leaves around before it snows.  

[toast21602]

12 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

I will take that bet.  I think that will be tough to pull off.  i like betting.  

I bet you one enthusiastic, forceful high-five. 

[indiggio]

2 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

I blow them kind of into a pile in different areas of the lawn, then take my neighbors mulching mower and mulch the piss out of them.  This works really well when they are dry.  This works like ass when they are wet.  I have a feeling they will be wet this weekend.  i really hate having un-managed leaves around before it snows.  

We're lucky in that we're surrounded by woods, so I can just blow them to the edge of the woods depending on which direction the wind is blowing.

We're unlucky in that we're surrounded by woods because every fall I have a ton of leaves to blow from the yard.

Regardless, I kinda enjoy blowing leaves, except for the time it takes me to do it and the pain in my arm from doing it. 
By the end of 4 hours of the same back/forth movement of my right arm, it's quite painful to do any different moves.
Otherwise it's just put on the headphones and get outside so I get used to being out in the cold and wind again.

[JFskiDan]

Just now, toast21602 said:

I bet you one enthusiastic, forceful high-five. 

Cheap ass.  

[JFskiDan]

1 minute ago, indiggio said:

We're lucky in that we're surrounded by woods, so I can just blow them to the edge of the woods depending on which direction the wind is blowing.

We're unlucky in that we're surrounded by woods because every fall I have a ton of leaves to blow from the yard.

Regardless, I kinda enjoy blowing leaves, except for the time it takes me to do it and the pain in my arm from doing it. 
By the end of 4 hours of the same back/forth movement of my right arm, it's quite painful to do any different moves.
Otherwise it's just put on the headphones and get outside so I get used to being out in the cold and wind again.

i am surrounded by trees as well in the poconos, but its a chore to blow them all to the back yard, to get them into the woods.  plus i hate having the huge pile of leaves to look at.  

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

If you don’t rake and just leave the leaves it just ruins the grass right??  I had to rake as a kid.  I can’t believe I never thought to buy a leaf blower. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

41 minutes ago, toast21602 said:

JFBB the weekend before Thanksgiving. Heard it here first. 

OK. And Blue the weekend before Xmas. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

14 minutes ago, indiggio said:

We're lucky in that we're surrounded by woods, so I can just blow them to the edge of the woods depending on which direction the wind is blowing.

We're unlucky in that we're surrounded by woods because every fall I have a ton of leaves to blow from the yard.

Regardless, I kinda enjoy blowing leaves, except for the time it takes me to do it and the pain in my arm from doing it. 
By the end of 4 hours of the same back/forth movement of my right arm, it's quite painful to do any different moves.
Otherwise it's just put on the headphones and get outside so I get used to being out in the cold and wind again.

How big is your yard?  

[indiggio]

4 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

If you don’t rake and just leave the leaves it just ruins the grass right??  I had to rake as a kid.  I can’t believe I never thought to buy a leaf blower. 

Ongoing debate.  I think if you get some leaves and you're not in or surrounded by woods, you probably don't need to rake, unless you got a big, bad tree.
Being surrounded by woods with very large, mature trees, we get so many leaves that cover the lawn like a blanket and would kill the lawn.
The first couple years here I only had a home-gamer electric leaf blower.  There was no way it could keep up and so I left the leaves.  Nearly killed the lawn.
Now I've got a Stihl BR-600 backpack blower that almost blew me backwards down the deck stairs the first time I used it.

We have a 2 acre lot, about 3/4 acre of grass.

[zzslope]

My place is all mature oak trees that I have to clean up after many times every fall. I have two hand held blowers and a 5 horse walk behind blower. I am lucky in that my property slopes to the creek and the prevailing western wind blows toward the creek. Blowers weren't an option when I was young, we used to rake every thing. I still have a home made wooden rake that is 6 feet wide with 12 inch tines and a 7 foot handle that I can move large hip deep piles with. Back then we could burn so we made a long pile in the driveway that circles my house and burned them. Now burning is not allowed. which I am ok with because I burned once or twice as an adult and was in fear of all the glowing embers flying into the air threatening to land on the roof. I have a system of using blue tarps and an ATV with a trailer to put them in the creek for right around my house, takes about 3 hours. On the lower half of the property I can blow all of the leaves directly into the creek which takes another 3 hours. I always end up doing large parts of three neighbors properties because their leaves end up on my place anyway. 

[Ride Delaware ?]

Temps take a drastic turn for the better starting Friday night in New England. Most big resorts without set openings should be open Friday the 16th...

[Mixilplix]

I don't have to clean up leaves...my house is surrounded by conifers....no deciduous trees...

[Ride Delaware ?]

I’ve got one tree, a dwarf maple, and I also don’t care about my lawn...

[indiggio]

8 hours ago, Mixilplix said:

I don't have to clean up leaves...my house is surrounded by conifers....no deciduous trees...

I have a bunch of white pines on a hill.  I have to blow their needles back under them or they will surely kill the grass they bunch up on.

Edited November 6, 2018 by indiggio

[rummy]

20 hours ago, indiggio said:

Ongoing debate.  I think if you get some leaves and you're not in or surrounded by woods, you probably don't need to rake, unless you got a big, bad tree.
Being surrounded by woods with very large, mature trees, we get so many leaves that cover the lawn like a blanket and would kill the lawn.
The first couple years here I only had a home-gamer electric leaf blower.  There was no way it could keep up and so I left the leaves.  Nearly killed the lawn.
Now I've got a Stihl BR-600 backpack blower that almost blew me backwards down the deck stairs the first time I used it.

We have a 2 acre lot, about 3/4 acre of grass.

That Stihl backpack blower is what I use at TLCITW. So powerful it makes cleanup a breeze ;-) 

[indiggio]

1 minute ago, rummy said:

That Stihl backpack blower is what I use at TLCITW. So powerful it makes cleanup a breeze 😉

Yeah, it's like wielding a tornado.

I think Echo makes a slightly more powerful one now though.

[Shadows]

tanaka yo

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

40 minutes ago, Shadows said:

tanaka yo

DuPont window washing company van is parked outside my work. 

Edited November 6, 2018 by GrilledSteezeSandwich

[indiggio]

47 minutes ago, Shadows said:

tanaka yo

I thought they stopped making backpack blowers?

[zzslope]

5 hours ago, indiggio said:

I have a bunch of white pines on a hill.  I have to blow their needles back under them or they will surely kill the grass they bunch up on.

A mature white pine drops a huge amount of needles in the fall. 

[indiggio]

3 minutes ago, zzslope said:

A mature white pine drops a huge amount of needles in the fall. 

I sure know that!

[mbike-ski]

2 hours ago, zzslope said:

A mature white pine drops a huge amount of needles in the fall. 

and cones some years - thats why i use a sweeper behind the tractor