One of my pet peeves in life is mowers with grass collectors and people who throw away grass clippings.

Clippings are natural food for lawns and make it healthy when it regrows. I have 2 mowers and I threw away the trays for each one.

It's fun watching mowers spray the grass clippings across the lawn like a mini fertilizer spreader.

Grass Man wrote:
It's fun watching mowers spray the grass clippings across the lawn like a mini fertilizer spreader.


Not a concept of fun to most of us, who wouldn't know the difference between a mower and a spreader

see hedda's brilliant thread on driveway cleanings.

I think I'm too young for this site!

Had a fantastic time cleaning my kitchen sink today

I used to often go to work with my father when I was little. He was a landscaper/glorified gardener type thing, and the grass clippings were put into big deep containers, and I liked to stand on the wall and jump into them.

Sadly, one turned out to be manure, and they had put a layer of grass on top to stop it drying out.

Honey wrote:


Sadly, one turned out to be manure, and they had put a layer of grass on top to stop it drying out.

Great story Honey; made me smile!

Honey wrote:
I used to often go to work with my father when I was little. He was a landscaper/glorified gardener type thing, and the grass clippings were put into big deep containers, and I liked to stand on the wall and jump into them.

Sadly, one turned out to be manure, and they had put a layer of grass on top to stop it drying out.

It added an extra few inches to your height though Honey.

Honey wrote:
I used to often go to work with my father when I was little. He was a landscaper/glorified gardener type thing, and the grass clippings were put into big deep containers, and I liked to stand on the wall and jump into them.

Sadly, one turned out to be manure, and they had put a layer of grass on top to stop it drying out.

a childhood memory to treasure.

hedda wrote:
Honey wrote:
I used to often go to work with my father when I was little. He was a landscaper/glorified gardener type thing, and the grass clippings were put into big deep containers, and I liked to stand on the wall and jump into them.

Sadly, one turned out to be manure, and they had put a layer of grass on top to stop it drying out.

a childhood memory to treasure.

Beats a better career path as a bullshitter journo.

Every fortnight the council sends a couple of blokes to cut the grass outside our row of houses. Then a spotty little herbert with enormous noise-cancelling headphones turns up with a leaf blower. The racket is almost unbearable, and goes on for about an hour, in true jobsworth fashion, no matter how little work they actually need to do. Afterwards the leaf blower (a really bizarre invention) has helpfully covered everyone's path with grass which will be trodden into carpets for the next few days. Meanwhile, the road by the grass remains covered in potholes which the council seems to be using as 'speed managers'. Or maybe they can't be arsed. One of the two.

Rick wrote:
Every fortnight the council sends a couple of blokes to cut the grass outside our row of houses. Then a spotty little herbert with enormous noise-cancelling headphones turns up with a leaf blower. The racket is almost unbearable, and goes on for about an hour, in true jobsworth fashion, no matter how little work they actually need to do. Afterwards the leaf blower (a really bizarre invention) has helpfully covered everyone's path with grass which will be trodden into carpets for the next few days. Meanwhile, the road by the grass remains covered in potholes which the council seems to be using as 'speed managers'. Or maybe they can't be arsed. One of the two.

I can't believe someone hasn't invented a silent leafblower..a fortune to be made.

hedda wrote:
Rick wrote:
Every fortnight the council sends a couple of blokes to cut the grass outside our row of houses. Then a spotty little herbert with enormous noise-cancelling headphones turns up with a leaf blower. The racket is almost unbearable, and goes on for about an hour, in true jobsworth fashion, no matter how little work they actually need to do. Afterwards the leaf blower (a really bizarre invention) has helpfully covered everyone's path with grass which will be trodden into carpets for the next few days. Meanwhile, the road by the grass remains covered in potholes which the council seems to be using as 'speed managers'. Or maybe they can't be arsed. One of the two.

I can't believe someone hasn't invented a silent leafblower..a fortune to be made.

I don't understand what they are for. I see people using them and it looks like the leaves are blown all over the place and then you have to sweep them up?
You might as well just sweep them in the first place.

I quite like the sound of machinery.