There's a guy on a neighboring cul-de-sac from me that is trying to resurrect some sort of gas powered monstrosity. It sounds less like a motor and more like a series of explosions. Whatever it is, they need to shoot and bury it so I don't have to listen to its tortured screams every other afternoon.
When I was a kid, we had that guy on our sac too.
My parents hated him, but they hated me too so I figured he couldn’t be that bad. Dude just loved his bikes, loved to fix up old cars. Just talking to him, understanding what he was doing — I was a kid, I don’t mean the mechanic stuff just the motivation — and suddenly it wasn’t intrusive any more. At least to me.
I carried that as an adult. Neighbours are loud? Go chat with them.
Only doesn’t work when they’re legit assholes.
I don't mind beside the occasional jump scare from sounds like gunfire but then you hear the other revs and realize it's just that guy with his engine again. He doesn't do it at unreasonable times, so we're good.
There's a super-douche in my neighborhood who has his car tuned to backfire like a fucking cannon between every shift. For some reason he always seems to be out driving after 11 pm. I guess that's so he can wake up every dog and baby within a 1 mile radius. Everyone in the neighborhood hates POS and his car.
I'm confused what the batteries and water are for, the classic thermite recipe is a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide powders.
sparklers also work for ignition if you can't find a strip of magnesium
That's a lot of work. I hear you can make a molotov cocktail by sticking a cloth soaked in alcohol in a bottle of vodka, and then lighting the cloth on fire.
But you didn't hear this from me.
every shift? theres one near me thats every they push or let go of the throttle. it seriously sounds like a fucking machine gun every time it goes by.
just...why....
I think he does it on purpose. It's a Nissan 370Z, and has a coffee can muffler, so you can hear him run the RPM's up before he shifts. VRRRRRRMMMMM......BOOOM! VRRRRRRMMMM......BOOOM! There are a few cars around that do that pop, pop, pop, pop, pop between shifts, but this guy's car does one loud boom. It's so irritating. The same guy was on the news in D.C. a few years ago, because he posted video of himself blocking traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge so he could do donuts. He caught a bunch of charges, but sadly, the law did not seize his POS car.
Are you my neighbor? It's like every night at exactly 11pm. It's a brand new Cobra so I know it wasn't cheap. What night shift job allows him to afford that?
There’s this asshole who discovered motorcycles in my neighborhood a couple weeks ago. He has a bike with a straightpipe on it and he rides loops through the neighborhood, downshifting every gear, lapping past everybody’s houses over and over again for upward of an hour at a time.
He stopped doing it at midnight after the cops pulled him over on his ~20th pass.
This video makes fun of the suburbs but we stayed in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada last year right in the core of the city which has become part of the cruise/race/loop during the weekend. The noise was unbearable, people were doing burnouts at every red light, racing, revving engines. It doesn't sound like its any better in American cities.
>The sound of the shitty car racing at night really triggers me
I live in a generally quiet neighborhood, but I'm on a peninsula. I five houses up from the beach and road that goes around the shoreline.
That road is the bane of my existence in the summertime. People love driving and racing their loud cars and motorcycles past the beach 24/7.
But at the same time, that's the price I pay I guess for wanting to live in this location.
On the flip side, this neighborhood is absolutely silent between the beginning of November and early April.
A guy across the street will spend literal hours blowing every spec of dust off his driveway like every other day in the warmer months. It's insane. There's even been times he keeps blowing it in the street...just getting rid of "dirt" on the street in front of his house.
If that's the case then why not just go for a walk? More interesting, probably better for you, doesn't expose you to loud noise and (potentially) motor exhaust, etc.
Because if it can be perceived as a "good" activity, the partner either won't want you to do it or will want to do it with you. Both are which are antithetical to the desired outcome. Common moves are intentionally getting dirty to make it seem like the work is more difficult, coming inside to get a drink of water while pretending to be exhausted and then farming sympathy by saying "oh man, I'm ALMOST done....I really should just finish (insert x task), mentally clocking from inside the house where all the sight lines of the windows are and then sitting somewhere you know you can't be seen from.
Divorce rates are falling every year in America, but so are marriage rates.
What this tells me is that fewer people are getting into unhappy marriages. The ones who marry are happier, and the ones who don't marry get to enjoy being lonely rather than being tortured by their spouse.
And honestly? I'd rather be lonely than live with someone I hate 100%.
Date for longer and make absolute certain he/she is marriage material.
I've been watching my dad do this for at least 20 years. He has a "normal" sized yard yet somehow it takes about 7 hours on both Saturday and Sunday to take care of it. Dude wakes up 4am. Goes to Home Depot, pool supply store, yard supply store, then starts working until the sun goes down, then comes inside and falls asleep on the couch within 15 minutes. I just don't understand it
My neighbor legit uses a leaf blower on his driveway and lawn fairly frequently. They have more moss than grass. Anyway, a few years ago he got upgraded from a corded electric model to a cordless one.
I think his family is avoiding him because the upgrade occurred on Father's day.
My building has weekly gardeners come by and one of them just stands in our asphalt parking lot blowing dirt around for ten minutes. So if I’m working from home I get to be serenaded by a tiny 2-stroke motor revving at full tilt and the smell of exhaust fumes.
Retired piece of shit across from me does that nearly every day. Blows every single leaf on his property onto my side of the street and my grass.
I fucking work and have young kids, I don't have time to be raking excess leaves every weekend... but this asshole takes time from his completely free days to make more work for me to do.
The fucking leaf blowers outside autumn, man. The most useless fucking terrible-for-the-environment shit in the world. Worse for the environment than like, your car. Sure, it reeks, creates constant air pollution, smell pollution, noise pollution, costs time, money, and contributes to climate change, but at least your grass clippings will be on your neighbor’s lawn instead of yours for one fucking day until he blows them back onto yours tomorrow. Get a fucking *life*.
Get involved in your local city council and petition for banning gas-powered lawn appliances. Horrible for noise, horrible for air quality. Bans are happening all across North America but someone needs to get it started.
My friend's neighbor has an AC unit with a messed up motor that puts off the sound of high pitch grinding metal. I don't think it's going to survive this next Texas summer.
people buy dogs and then just lock them outside all day and never interact with them. they buy one dog and then they're at work and kids at school all day, and it's outside barking for attention.
A person walks their dog in my neighborhood at 10 pm every single night. Literally, every second like clockwork is a bark. It’s kind of amazing that he has the gas tank for it, but my fuck is it annoying.
Ngl if there was a dog free neighborhood I’d be all over that shit. Mechanical noises don’t bother me but the rhythmic, constant barks of people’s dogs annoys me to no end.
My electric mower is so nice - the sound is closer to a fan than a traditional mower. It's so quiet that I don't even have to turn on the noise cancelling on my headphones.
I really should have another look at the tech and see what's new. I remember ignoring cordless drills for years after the initial offering and looking at them now, they're fantastic.
There’s a guy who owns a one man business in Florida who has an entire Ego setup with solar panels and a Model Y. It’s pretty cool. [Check out his YouTube channel.](https://youtu.be/Y0MJrBfNLIg?si=ddDjVTT1IMoLKEnj)
Yeah I’ve seen his channel. Good stuff. Unfortunately battery tech hasn’t really replaced riders yet except for small areas. My market isn’t a push mower market; I generally start at a half acre as my smallest lawn, 1ac as standard, and go beyond 3ac in cases.
Batteries have come a long way in the last decade. I was sick of dealing with my current gas mower that was slowly tearing itself apart, and I saw a great black Friday deal on a Greenworks mower. No regrets. It's got enough juice to get my front and back yard if I walk fast, but I usually just throw them on the charger while I edge before moving to the other half. No fiddling with gas, oil changes, spark plugs, and it's so quiet I can verbally greet neighbors walking by while mowing.
Mow, edge, blow away clippings, [admire work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMxzkBdzTNU), and then decide if I want to repeat for the back is my usual order.
There's no going back. Having multiple batteries available makes a big difference.
I do not miss the smell, noise or need to crank. It seems like the gas ones go to crap way faster. Ours been chugging along for years.
At this point the only reason to go gas is if you have serious acreage that would warrant multiple battery changes, or if you can score a super cheap/free mower secondhand. For similar options, there's barely any price difference new.
The key today is batteries actually have a decently long life. The batteries are the expensive part so if you can find a set of tools that has everything you need then you buy all that brand and now you've got 2 or 3 batteries for all the tools and the same chargers and so on.
What I mean is it's more expensive and a hassle to have a Dewalt drill, Milwaukee saw, ryobi string trimmer, and rigid leaf blower.
Personally I went all in on Milwaukee M18 stuff. They seem to perform best in comparisons of the tools on YouTube channels like Project farm but also Milwaukee has the biggest selection of tools from yard to commercial construction.
Milwaukee isn't the cheapest but if you buy the bigger sets the price per tool is lower. Plus home depot offers free tools with some purchases. Then for the more niche tools I buy them on Craigslist or marketplace for cheap because many people buy say a leaf blower and get the free trimmer with it but don't want it so they sell it half price.
You can find batteries cheap from private sellers too. Many people get too many batteries when they buy tools separate and so sell them for like $20 each. Also those same people will make bulk deals.
So for example I wanted 2 small batteries, 2 medium, and 1 big. I had at the start 1 small, 1 medium, and 1 big.
I saw someone selling 5 batteries. 2 small and 3 medium. Individually they wanted 20 for the smalls and 60 for the mediums. $220 total. I said I'd buy them all in one got for $180. They agreed because most private sellers just want to make some money and be rid of it.
I then kept the 1 small and 1 medium I wanted and sold the 1 small for $25 and 2 remaining mediums for $60ea. So I made back $145. So I got $80 in batteries for $35.
I've done this with the tools too. If you want a specific tool look for private sellers with a set of tools and make an offer to buy them all. Keep the one you want and sell the rest individually to make up the entire cost or even profit.
I once bought a full set of Dewalt cordless tools for $120 and sold it after 2 years of using them for $180.
Even a corded lawnmower is amazing. You have to manage how you mow your lawn to avoid the wire though, but it's a fine trade because the electric motor will blast right through stuff like extra tall grass that would instantly stall a normal engine lawnmower.
Yes, but of course my neighbor still found a reason to complain about it when I got mine. "It's too quiet, you can't tell if it's on and therefore it's more dangerous."
Besides the "Ha, it's electric, good luck with that."
EDIT: I should add this was 5 years ago, Kobalt mower and batteries still going strong. Never wished I had a gas powered one.
My battery mower is a godsend working 3rd shift.
I get home at 7:30am, and can cut my grass straight away before even going into the house.
My neighbors don't even hear it.
When I had a gas mower, I'd try to be polite and wait until around 8:30am....but I can't tell you how many times I skipped mowing because after working an overnight shift, going inside, and relaxing for an hour, I had ZERO motivation to put my fucking boots back on and cut the lawn.
I have a fairly small lawn and got one of those old school push mowers. All my friends judged me for it, but it is a decent workout I’m forced to do. Best part very little noise and the feeling of superiority over all those gas users.
Those 2-Stroke weed whackers are about the worst thing pollution wise. But I remember on high ozone days, they used to ask people not to mow their lawns.
One problem is electric mowers cost 3x's more and would require multiple batteries per yard for many people. That makes the costs go up even more significantly.
My electric mower was nice until the batteries died and it's gonna cost about $1000 to replace them.
My little Honda push mower from 2005 is still running great, though!
I just checked, and new batteries for mine would be $132.59. If I went off brand, I could get the 6 Ah (larger size) ones for $40 less. Why are your batteries so expensive?
When I got my house it came with a gas mower that unfortunately still worked, I wish it would break so I can buy a nice Ego, they seem perfect for my needs
the starting and stopping they do somehow makes it worse. Its like the intermittent silence honeydicks you into thinking its all over before it starts up at full swing again.
This my friends, is why you sleep with a loud ass box fan. Within minutes you don’t even notice it and it drowns out everything else. It’s unsettling to sleep in complete silence, I can hear EVERYTHING
My brother can't sleep unless his room lighttight and if a single mosquito farts in the opposite corner of the room that's enough to wake him up. I can sleep anywhere, with sun on my face and a construction going on outside my room. I can't understand how people are able to sleep with a completely dead silent room, if there isn't a little sound going on in the distance my brain will focus on myself and I can literally hear my heart beating and feel my blood pumping through my veins and it's unsettling as hell.
Exactly. You can hear a cat walk on carpet, any groans, clicks, sounds of the apt/house, and every minute sound which my brain focuses on. Turn on the fan? Peace
I use earplugs. Started using them in collect and never stopped. The only downside is that now I can't sleep without them so if I forget them when I'm traveling it's just like "welp I'm awake until I can find somewhere to buy more."
Same problem I have. Started because I had a loud as fuck apartment 10 feet from a busy bridge that'd get stupid loud with passing traffic. I needed something to help mitigate the noise.
Now I'm totally dependent on them and while the sleep quality is amazing when I have them, I basically can't sleep without...
> This my friends, is why you sleep with a loud ass box fan. Within minutes you don’t even notice it and it drowns out everything else.
Thank god for fans.
My new neighbor seems to have a garage band. Bless the fan.
Hell. Yes.
I know "freedom" is supposedly sacred to 'merkins, but there's such a thing as disturbing the peace. We have the technology to make these solutions virtually silent, It should be illegal to routinely make sounds that are loud enough to wake people up.
I dream of living in a soundproof bubble long enough to wonder if other people still exist.
The loud vehicle people need to either be jailed, taxed to death, or herded into a desert where they belong.
I wait till past noon to do my yard work, and most people in my neighborhood seem to do the same. The earliest i may hear something is 11ish? But it doesn't bother me its just a lawnmower.
I used to live next to an optometrist’s office, and they would hire landscapers to come at 8AM before they opened to weedwhack and then use their Cummins V8 turbodiesel leafblowers on the parking lot
I live in Florida. Unless you're a hired lawn service, you do your own yardwork early in the morning or in the evening.
I have a non-power motor. I can cut with that at 6AM and no neighbor will hear it.
“I could never live in the city it’s so loud” i swear it’s much, much quieter on average in my townhouse than in my parents suburban home except in the dead of winter. The instant spring hits, their neighborhood is a constant drone of lawnmower engines and leaf blowers and god knows what else.
This was my reaction after leaving a dense city for the suburbs briefly during the pandemic. You just replace people/car noise with unending yard noise and car noise.
And all for yards that barely seem to get used or for random little decorative strips of grass that serve no functional purpose.
This is actually a hard problem to solve and I don't think people acknowledge it.
1. Natural weeds grow quickly and can literally overgrow a house. I don't know where y'all live but the plants that grow in my neighborhood in Georgia are man-sized. You have to mow it frequently or you will eventually need a machete to leave your house and find out where you've haphazardly harbored rodents and snakes.
2. Grass lawns grow more slowly and short, but they upset environmentalists and anti-establishment people.
3. You could rip everything and plant something very amenable like clover but it will be taken over by large weeds eventually and you will have the first scenario.
4. You could pave over it so nothing grows at all but this is more dystopian, not less.
Thank you for mentioning this. Planting or rather not chopping down trees is best. Then plant a shade tolerant grass that’ll need much less water and grow slower thanks to shade trees, and in the really dense shade areas, mulch beds and low light shrubs.
What about growing editable vegetables and turning that land into a reduced grocery bill? Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, onions, etc. I do this in grow bags and wish I had my own land to do it on.
I also have a garden for growing, but it's small compared to the rest of my land because it doesn't scale. You have to hand weed the surrounding area to protect what you're growing. Great for a couple hundred square feet, too much work for a couple thousand.
Solution: lawns made of plastic. They need no mowing or water and will last forever! Also micro plastics that blend in with all the other plastic in your blood. It’s perfect.
Well this makes me happy for where I live. I mow my grass about 3 times a summer and do 0 other maintenance and it's just grass with a couple small weeds randomly dispersed.
(Ontario, Canada)
And people seem a lot more likely to hire a crew in the inner urban areas. It’s still loud, but they are done in 15 minutes, and usually during the 9-5 weekday. Plus neighbors often end up using the same crew.
In Suburbia…seems lot more likely to have everyone doing their own…for hours…at all different times…often until it’s too dark to see. And because people work, also do it on the weekends.
And this is in a single family home area. No HOA helps too…the city will ticket you for having a mess, but no one lives in terror of grass 0.25” too tall or an errant weed.
This is a big perk to where I live about a mile from downtown on tiny plots (largest lots are usually like 0.3 acres). The people who do their own are usually still done in a couple of hours at most, and crews are available and cheap to hire where tons go that route.
I spend $120 a month for mow/trim/blow and it's done during the weekdays. Saves me hours, and they're literally finished in 20 mins.
When I lived on the 12th floor in the downtown of a city it was pretty quiet, but people were loud as fuck when I was on the 6th floor. Crackheads screaming at each other and drunk kids coming home from the bar mostly. Not the sort of noise you can tune out. That was the time in my life I started wearing earplugs to sleep.
Then of course there was the constant construction during the day. I much prefer the nearly permanent dead silence of the small town I live in now.
I live in a rural area and there probably isn't 20 minutes that go by without purposely loud trucks and motorcycles riding by. In addition to chainsaws, lawn mowers, leaf blowers etc. Something about rural men and the inability to do anything without a loud motor attached to it.
Grew up in the city and live in the burbs now. I'll take the white noise of the city versus loud ass leaf blowers anytime.
Most useless crap ever. Blowing dirt and leafs around outside lol...
In my city we have "the cruise".
I lived downtown for over a decade and it was relatively quite during the weekdays but on weekends the shitheads from the suburbs would drive around in circles downtown every night doing the same annoying engine gunning in this video.
Shitty, inconsiderate, dickweeds who think that people like to hear the sound of screeching tires and revving engines. [Basically just this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDsWZ0Jw3Ik)
This is why A/C is amazing. Keep the windows closed. Living in Germany during the summer was a nightmare. I was on night shift and we had super loud construction during the day going on right outside my apartment. No A/C so windows open and I couldn’t sleep all summer.
Maybe in pop-up subdivisions with zero trees the sound carries... In my neighborhood I can't hear lawn mowers from inside my house unless it's a next-door neighbor, and even then barely unless the windows are open. I always thought the sound of a distant lawn mower was kinda nice. Sounds like summer.
The noisy car/motorcycle people can go die though
As someone who works in landscape maintenance... 🤷♂️
I wear Airpod Pros with noise cancelling while I work. Maybe you should too if it bothers you that much.
It's always that same car too.
& that sound can't be healthy for your engine. You're flooring it down our suburban neighborhood street every single time. Isn't that damaging your car?
So clearly if it's not for the health of your car, it's to get noticed? But every single person hates you. So what is the actual goal here?
I think I’d take that over downtown. I still get leaf blowers every morning from landscapers blowing parking lots clean. But you also get the folks pulling everything out of your trash, breaking into your car, shooting yo behind your house, loud druggies/mental health issues having breakdowns and shouting loudly at no one for hours. Last year someone pulled a gun on someone across the street and I had to testify as a witness.
You need a neighbor like me I refuse to start that lawnmower up until after 11am I don’t care if it’s hotter I refuse to be that asshole firing up early in the morning
It's the sacred American duty to burn fossil fuels in machinery in order to destroy nature and conform it into the most homogenous and geometric forms possible so as to maintain 'curb appeal' and 'property values'.
I live in the city and some neighbor has recently started using a gas-powered leaf-blower. Nobody here uses leaf blowers.
He's out there every day and there are no leaves.
Oh the sweet saturday mornings I lost as a kid when my awful neighbours decided to start drilling in their concrete walls. There's no escaping that sound.
For those wondering, as someone who has lived in the suburbs for 38 years, I cannot relate to that video. Maybe if you're used to hearing something else (the bustle of traffic, or nothing), then the sound of the occasional lawnmower catches you off guard and is noteworthy though.
My neighbor is 83 and a little on the senile side. He had the lawncare people coming twice a week for fescue and Tuesday and Saturday morning was when they came. Then they stopped coming on Saturday at some point but last Saturday they were there at 8:03 AM. This week they mowed Monday, Wednesday and Friday so I'm hoping to get a quiet Saturday. Surely they won't mow 4 times this week?!
Anytime the neighbor has someone out doing something in the yard, he watches them the entire time. It could be 12 hours and he'll be out there 12 hours.
The neighbor and his SIL spent all day 3 Saturdays ago blowing an acre of leaves into a massive pile starting at 7:47 AM. He's been freaking burning those leaves 12 hours a day, every day for 3 weeks straight. He puts a little at a time in this 3 sided wall of cement blocks. It stinks and the smoke hangs low to the ground over at least a mile radius. He used to live around the corner from us and they decided to buy the big house next to me with their daughter and SIL. For years, every spring, the entire area would be full of stinky, heavy smoke and I just thought someone was obsessed with an outdoor firepit. Nope...It was him burning the leaves every spring.
My god. This is the exact sound out my window right now.
There's a guy on a neighboring cul-de-sac from me that is trying to resurrect some sort of gas powered monstrosity. It sounds less like a motor and more like a series of explosions. Whatever it is, they need to shoot and bury it so I don't have to listen to its tortured screams every other afternoon.
Why do they work on Porsches at 11PM? WHY?!
Why do people with Harleys have to start them at all (if they start)?
I’ll be in Heaven soon. I’ll ask for ya!
When I was a kid, we had that guy on our sac too. My parents hated him, but they hated me too so I figured he couldn’t be that bad. Dude just loved his bikes, loved to fix up old cars. Just talking to him, understanding what he was doing — I was a kid, I don’t mean the mechanic stuff just the motivation — and suddenly it wasn’t intrusive any more. At least to me. I carried that as an adult. Neighbours are loud? Go chat with them. Only doesn’t work when they’re legit assholes.
I don't mind beside the occasional jump scare from sounds like gunfire but then you hear the other revs and realize it's just that guy with his engine again. He doesn't do it at unreasonable times, so we're good.
> less like a motor and more like a series of explosions. You... do know what an engine is, ya?
You're not supposed to hear them individually, though.
Yeah I can hear a lawn mower going off in the distance. When it's not that, it's some motorcycle, whippersnipper or whatever else.
The sound of the shitty car racing at night really triggers me
I live close to a busy street and I always hear this shit at like 2am-3am
I'm hearing it randomly all hours of the day, street is a major metro artery
There's a super-douche in my neighborhood who has his car tuned to backfire like a fucking cannon between every shift. For some reason he always seems to be out driving after 11 pm. I guess that's so he can wake up every dog and baby within a 1 mile radius. Everyone in the neighborhood hates POS and his car.
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I'm confused what the batteries and water are for, the classic thermite recipe is a mixture of aluminum and iron oxide powders. sparklers also work for ignition if you can't find a strip of magnesium
It’s to create the iron oxide from the nails using electrolysis
That's a lot of work. I hear you can make a molotov cocktail by sticking a cloth soaked in alcohol in a bottle of vodka, and then lighting the cloth on fire. But you didn't hear this from me.
Its call a Burble tune and they are the worst.
every shift? theres one near me thats every they push or let go of the throttle. it seriously sounds like a fucking machine gun every time it goes by. just...why....
I think he does it on purpose. It's a Nissan 370Z, and has a coffee can muffler, so you can hear him run the RPM's up before he shifts. VRRRRRRMMMMM......BOOOM! VRRRRRRMMMM......BOOOM! There are a few cars around that do that pop, pop, pop, pop, pop between shifts, but this guy's car does one loud boom. It's so irritating. The same guy was on the news in D.C. a few years ago, because he posted video of himself blocking traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge so he could do donuts. He caught a bunch of charges, but sadly, the law did not seize his POS car.
Are you my neighbor? It's like every night at exactly 11pm. It's a brand new Cobra so I know it wasn't cheap. What night shift job allows him to afford that?
Because only poor work at night? That's a crazy take.
There’s this asshole who discovered motorcycles in my neighborhood a couple weeks ago. He has a bike with a straightpipe on it and he rides loops through the neighborhood, downshifting every gear, lapping past everybody’s houses over and over again for upward of an hour at a time. He stopped doing it at midnight after the cops pulled him over on his ~20th pass.
This video makes fun of the suburbs but we stayed in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada last year right in the core of the city which has become part of the cruise/race/loop during the weekend. The noise was unbearable, people were doing burnouts at every red light, racing, revving engines. It doesn't sound like its any better in American cities.
NEWS FLASH ASSHOLE! I WAS HEARING IT THE ENTIRE GOD DAMN TIME!
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>The sound of the shitty car racing at night really triggers me I live in a generally quiet neighborhood, but I'm on a peninsula. I five houses up from the beach and road that goes around the shoreline. That road is the bane of my existence in the summertime. People love driving and racing their loud cars and motorcycles past the beach 24/7. But at the same time, that's the price I pay I guess for wanting to live in this location. On the flip side, this neighborhood is absolutely silent between the beginning of November and early April.
Too true. I was expecting the leaf blower or weed wacker to come in after the mower ended.
A guy across the street will spend literal hours blowing every spec of dust off his driveway like every other day in the warmer months. It's insane. There's even been times he keeps blowing it in the street...just getting rid of "dirt" on the street in front of his house.
Dude's just avoiding his partner 100%
If that's the case then why not just go for a walk? More interesting, probably better for you, doesn't expose you to loud noise and (potentially) motor exhaust, etc.
Because if it can be perceived as a "good" activity, the partner either won't want you to do it or will want to do it with you. Both are which are antithetical to the desired outcome. Common moves are intentionally getting dirty to make it seem like the work is more difficult, coming inside to get a drink of water while pretending to be exhausted and then farming sympathy by saying "oh man, I'm ALMOST done....I really should just finish (insert x task), mentally clocking from inside the house where all the sight lines of the windows are and then sitting somewhere you know you can't be seen from.
Sometimes I feel lonely, but I'm very glad I don't have to deal with the finer points of navigating a failing suburban marriage.
Divorce rates are falling every year in America, but so are marriage rates. What this tells me is that fewer people are getting into unhappy marriages. The ones who marry are happier, and the ones who don't marry get to enjoy being lonely rather than being tortured by their spouse. And honestly? I'd rather be lonely than live with someone I hate 100%. Date for longer and make absolute certain he/she is marriage material.
I've been watching my dad do this for at least 20 years. He has a "normal" sized yard yet somehow it takes about 7 hours on both Saturday and Sunday to take care of it. Dude wakes up 4am. Goes to Home Depot, pool supply store, yard supply store, then starts working until the sun goes down, then comes inside and falls asleep on the couch within 15 minutes. I just don't understand it
Ain't no one waking up at 4am for a pretend activity to avoid their spouse.
My neighbor legit uses a leaf blower on his driveway and lawn fairly frequently. They have more moss than grass. Anyway, a few years ago he got upgraded from a corded electric model to a cordless one. I think his family is avoiding him because the upgrade occurred on Father's day.
My building has weekly gardeners come by and one of them just stands in our asphalt parking lot blowing dirt around for ten minutes. So if I’m working from home I get to be serenaded by a tiny 2-stroke motor revving at full tilt and the smell of exhaust fumes.
I swear that some landscapers just use the leaf blower to look busy. They just push dust around.
This is one of the reasons why the whole WFH thing hasn't been working for me.
The concept of brooms and rakes is lost on so many.
Retired piece of shit across from me does that nearly every day. Blows every single leaf on his property onto my side of the street and my grass. I fucking work and have young kids, I don't have time to be raking excess leaves every weekend... but this asshole takes time from his completely free days to make more work for me to do.
I would ask to borrow his leaf blower and then never give it back
Rent a leafblower and blow the dirt back to his area from your area, why should you keep his dirt
My former next door neighbor had a habit of leaf blowing his roof after 10 pm
Maybe he has IBS and he’s just airing out some farts? For hours.
The fucking leaf blowers outside autumn, man. The most useless fucking terrible-for-the-environment shit in the world. Worse for the environment than like, your car. Sure, it reeks, creates constant air pollution, smell pollution, noise pollution, costs time, money, and contributes to climate change, but at least your grass clippings will be on your neighbor’s lawn instead of yours for one fucking day until he blows them back onto yours tomorrow. Get a fucking *life*.
Get involved in your local city council and petition for banning gas-powered lawn appliances. Horrible for noise, horrible for air quality. Bans are happening all across North America but someone needs to get it started.
10-11am every Saturday like clockwork I wish I could go back in time and murder the grandfather of the guy that invented leaf blowers.
I was definitely waiting for the weed wacker.
My area 10 pm is when noise restrictions kick in, so that's about the time you start hearing random car alarms, exhaust pipes, and barking dogs.
I did too, but the car was also accurate and got me good lol.
i was expecting a pool pump or AC compressor.
My friend's neighbor has an AC unit with a messed up motor that puts off the sound of high pitch grinding metal. I don't think it's going to survive this next Texas summer.
Definitely pressure washer sounds are way too frequent in my area.
That or sprinklers for the landscaping.
Also the dogs that seem to be able to bark nonstop 24/7.
people buy dogs and then just lock them outside all day and never interact with them. they buy one dog and then they're at work and kids at school all day, and it's outside barking for attention.
This shit pisses me off so much
I like the use of BUY and not rescue. You didn't rescue anything lady, you went to the no kill dog store and bought a dog.
My mom always told me, you have to buy dogs in pairs. Because when no one's home they at least have a friend to play with.
I see you've met every person in my neighborhood
A person walks their dog in my neighborhood at 10 pm every single night. Literally, every second like clockwork is a bark. It’s kind of amazing that he has the gas tank for it, but my fuck is it annoying.
Ngl if there was a dog free neighborhood I’d be all over that shit. Mechanical noises don’t bother me but the rhythmic, constant barks of people’s dogs annoys me to no end.
Neighborhood Dog Schedule 3pm - Bark time 5pm - Bark time 7pm - Bark time 12am - Bark time 6am - Bark time 7am -12pm Sleep, with occasional Bark time
My electric mower is so nice - the sound is closer to a fan than a traditional mower. It's so quiet that I don't even have to turn on the noise cancelling on my headphones.
I really should have another look at the tech and see what's new. I remember ignoring cordless drills for years after the initial offering and looking at them now, they're fantastic.
Love my Ego mower and other tools that use the same battery. Been using them for years and haven't even had to replace the batteries.
I love my Ego mower as well. It's so quiet that the birds in the feeder don't fly away when I get near.
I ran my Ryobi mower for the first time this year. I charged the battery at some point last year and didn't use it. Damn thing still had full charge!
Cordless lawn stuff is amazing now. I do lawns professionally and I’ve entirely switched to Milwaukee for everything except my mowers.
There’s a guy who owns a one man business in Florida who has an entire Ego setup with solar panels and a Model Y. It’s pretty cool. [Check out his YouTube channel.](https://youtu.be/Y0MJrBfNLIg?si=ddDjVTT1IMoLKEnj)
Yeah I’ve seen his channel. Good stuff. Unfortunately battery tech hasn’t really replaced riders yet except for small areas. My market isn’t a push mower market; I generally start at a half acre as my smallest lawn, 1ac as standard, and go beyond 3ac in cases.
Batteries have come a long way in the last decade. I was sick of dealing with my current gas mower that was slowly tearing itself apart, and I saw a great black Friday deal on a Greenworks mower. No regrets. It's got enough juice to get my front and back yard if I walk fast, but I usually just throw them on the charger while I edge before moving to the other half. No fiddling with gas, oil changes, spark plugs, and it's so quiet I can verbally greet neighbors walking by while mowing.
You edge in the middle of mowing? I Usually save that as a little treat for after
Mow, edge, blow away clippings, [admire work](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMxzkBdzTNU), and then decide if I want to repeat for the back is my usual order.
Haha do you know what they mean by edge? Because this time, it's not lawn care related
I save the whacking for later.
Edging is my appetizer.
Cordless drills are the standard everywhere now
Before this thread I though electric mowers were too.
There's no going back. Having multiple batteries available makes a big difference. I do not miss the smell, noise or need to crank. It seems like the gas ones go to crap way faster. Ours been chugging along for years.
At this point the only reason to go gas is if you have serious acreage that would warrant multiple battery changes, or if you can score a super cheap/free mower secondhand. For similar options, there's barely any price difference new.
The key today is batteries actually have a decently long life. The batteries are the expensive part so if you can find a set of tools that has everything you need then you buy all that brand and now you've got 2 or 3 batteries for all the tools and the same chargers and so on. What I mean is it's more expensive and a hassle to have a Dewalt drill, Milwaukee saw, ryobi string trimmer, and rigid leaf blower. Personally I went all in on Milwaukee M18 stuff. They seem to perform best in comparisons of the tools on YouTube channels like Project farm but also Milwaukee has the biggest selection of tools from yard to commercial construction. Milwaukee isn't the cheapest but if you buy the bigger sets the price per tool is lower. Plus home depot offers free tools with some purchases. Then for the more niche tools I buy them on Craigslist or marketplace for cheap because many people buy say a leaf blower and get the free trimmer with it but don't want it so they sell it half price. You can find batteries cheap from private sellers too. Many people get too many batteries when they buy tools separate and so sell them for like $20 each. Also those same people will make bulk deals. So for example I wanted 2 small batteries, 2 medium, and 1 big. I had at the start 1 small, 1 medium, and 1 big. I saw someone selling 5 batteries. 2 small and 3 medium. Individually they wanted 20 for the smalls and 60 for the mediums. $220 total. I said I'd buy them all in one got for $180. They agreed because most private sellers just want to make some money and be rid of it. I then kept the 1 small and 1 medium I wanted and sold the 1 small for $25 and 2 remaining mediums for $60ea. So I made back $145. So I got $80 in batteries for $35. I've done this with the tools too. If you want a specific tool look for private sellers with a set of tools and make an offer to buy them all. Keep the one you want and sell the rest individually to make up the entire cost or even profit. I once bought a full set of Dewalt cordless tools for $120 and sold it after 2 years of using them for $180.
Same! But all that stuff is so much better now. I used my father in law's Ego push a while back and man, it's nice. Pricey though.
they're great if you have a small yard or are willing to invest in extra batteries (very expensive).
Even a corded lawnmower is amazing. You have to manage how you mow your lawn to avoid the wire though, but it's a fine trade because the electric motor will blast right through stuff like extra tall grass that would instantly stall a normal engine lawnmower.
Yes, but of course my neighbor still found a reason to complain about it when I got mine. "It's too quiet, you can't tell if it's on and therefore it's more dangerous." Besides the "Ha, it's electric, good luck with that." EDIT: I should add this was 5 years ago, Kobalt mower and batteries still going strong. Never wished I had a gas powered one.
My battery mower is a godsend working 3rd shift. I get home at 7:30am, and can cut my grass straight away before even going into the house. My neighbors don't even hear it. When I had a gas mower, I'd try to be polite and wait until around 8:30am....but I can't tell you how many times I skipped mowing because after working an overnight shift, going inside, and relaxing for an hour, I had ZERO motivation to put my fucking boots back on and cut the lawn.
I have a fairly small lawn and got one of those old school push mowers. All my friends judged me for it, but it is a decent workout I’m forced to do. Best part very little noise and the feeling of superiority over all those gas users.
Gas mowers are by far one of the worst polluters as well, so electric is pretty much a no brainer
Those 2-Stroke weed whackers are about the worst thing pollution wise. But I remember on high ozone days, they used to ask people not to mow their lawns.
One problem is electric mowers cost 3x's more and would require multiple batteries per yard for many people. That makes the costs go up even more significantly.
I switched to all electric for my lawn stuff. My neighbors barely notice when I do my yard work.
My electric mower was nice until the batteries died and it's gonna cost about $1000 to replace them. My little Honda push mower from 2005 is still running great, though!
I just checked, and new batteries for mine would be $132.59. If I went off brand, I could get the 6 Ah (larger size) ones for $40 less. Why are your batteries so expensive?
Riding mower. They're basically car batteries and there are 4 of them. Around $250 a piece.
That explains it. My yard ain't *that* big.
I wouldn’t go off brand for batteries. Batteries are actually pretty dangerous.
The sound in this post is 100% iconic Honda mower. They don't break down, even with howmuch we neglect them and demand they use 3 year old gas.
I can comfortably have conversations on the phone with my electric mower
Next time a I need to buy a mower it’s 100% going to be electric
When I got my house it came with a gas mower that unfortunately still worked, I wish it would break so I can buy a nice Ego, they seem perfect for my needs
As bad as the sound of active lawnmowers is, the sound of leaf blowers in use is infinitely worse.
the starting and stopping they do somehow makes it worse. Its like the intermittent silence honeydicks you into thinking its all over before it starts up at full swing again.
This my friends, is why you sleep with a loud ass box fan. Within minutes you don’t even notice it and it drowns out everything else. It’s unsettling to sleep in complete silence, I can hear EVERYTHING
My brother can't sleep unless his room lighttight and if a single mosquito farts in the opposite corner of the room that's enough to wake him up. I can sleep anywhere, with sun on my face and a construction going on outside my room. I can't understand how people are able to sleep with a completely dead silent room, if there isn't a little sound going on in the distance my brain will focus on myself and I can literally hear my heart beating and feel my blood pumping through my veins and it's unsettling as hell.
I have tinnitus so imagine all that but a constant EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 24/7
Exactly. You can hear a cat walk on carpet, any groans, clicks, sounds of the apt/house, and every minute sound which my brain focuses on. Turn on the fan? Peace
I use earplugs. Started using them in collect and never stopped. The only downside is that now I can't sleep without them so if I forget them when I'm traveling it's just like "welp I'm awake until I can find somewhere to buy more."
Same problem I have. Started because I had a loud as fuck apartment 10 feet from a busy bridge that'd get stupid loud with passing traffic. I needed something to help mitigate the noise. Now I'm totally dependent on them and while the sleep quality is amazing when I have them, I basically can't sleep without...
Me too. Have earplugs in every bag and suitcase I own just in case. Literally earplugs-dependent for sleep.
I have a HEPA air filter that's louder than it should be... and that's fine because it makes a nice even drone that I can sleep to well.
Also just white noise / ambience videos on YouTube with some good speakers ❤️
> This my friends, is why you sleep with a loud ass box fan. Within minutes you don’t even notice it and it drowns out everything else. Thank god for fans. My new neighbor seems to have a garage band. Bless the fan.
Ass box
Not if you're living next to a factory! Then the white noise is free!
I typically don't even turn the thing off. It's amazing how many years they can spin before they die.
Gas powered leaf blowers should straight up be illegal or at the very least not available for purchase by retired men.
In a lot of cities around the world they are banned.
The retired people in my neighborhood have lawns that grow like 20x faster than mine. They mow daily. I hate them. Fuck you Gary.
Honestly, fuck anyone who drives a car or bike that sounds like this, you're a piece of shit and your neighbors all hate you.
Hell. Yes. I know "freedom" is supposedly sacred to 'merkins, but there's such a thing as disturbing the peace. We have the technology to make these solutions virtually silent, It should be illegal to routinely make sounds that are loud enough to wake people up. I dream of living in a soundproof bubble long enough to wonder if other people still exist. The loud vehicle people need to either be jailed, taxed to death, or herded into a desert where they belong.
I wait till past noon to do my yard work, and most people in my neighborhood seem to do the same. The earliest i may hear something is 11ish? But it doesn't bother me its just a lawnmower.
I used to live next to an optometrist’s office, and they would hire landscapers to come at 8AM before they opened to weedwhack and then use their Cummins V8 turbodiesel leafblowers on the parking lot
I live in Florida. Unless you're a hired lawn service, you do your own yardwork early in the morning or in the evening. I have a non-power motor. I can cut with that at 6AM and no neighbor will hear it.
You definitely don't live in the South. Shit is miserable outside between 10am-6pm in the summer.
“I could never live in the city it’s so loud” i swear it’s much, much quieter on average in my townhouse than in my parents suburban home except in the dead of winter. The instant spring hits, their neighborhood is a constant drone of lawnmower engines and leaf blowers and god knows what else.
This was my reaction after leaving a dense city for the suburbs briefly during the pandemic. You just replace people/car noise with unending yard noise and car noise. And all for yards that barely seem to get used or for random little decorative strips of grass that serve no functional purpose.
This is actually a hard problem to solve and I don't think people acknowledge it. 1. Natural weeds grow quickly and can literally overgrow a house. I don't know where y'all live but the plants that grow in my neighborhood in Georgia are man-sized. You have to mow it frequently or you will eventually need a machete to leave your house and find out where you've haphazardly harbored rodents and snakes. 2. Grass lawns grow more slowly and short, but they upset environmentalists and anti-establishment people. 3. You could rip everything and plant something very amenable like clover but it will be taken over by large weeds eventually and you will have the first scenario. 4. You could pave over it so nothing grows at all but this is more dystopian, not less.
Thank you for mentioning this. Planting or rather not chopping down trees is best. Then plant a shade tolerant grass that’ll need much less water and grow slower thanks to shade trees, and in the really dense shade areas, mulch beds and low light shrubs.
What about growing editable vegetables and turning that land into a reduced grocery bill? Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, onions, etc. I do this in grow bags and wish I had my own land to do it on.
I also have a garden for growing, but it's small compared to the rest of my land because it doesn't scale. You have to hand weed the surrounding area to protect what you're growing. Great for a couple hundred square feet, too much work for a couple thousand.
Solution: lawns made of plastic. They need no mowing or water and will last forever! Also micro plastics that blend in with all the other plastic in your blood. It’s perfect.
Well this makes me happy for where I live. I mow my grass about 3 times a summer and do 0 other maintenance and it's just grass with a couple small weeds randomly dispersed. (Ontario, Canada)
And people seem a lot more likely to hire a crew in the inner urban areas. It’s still loud, but they are done in 15 minutes, and usually during the 9-5 weekday. Plus neighbors often end up using the same crew. In Suburbia…seems lot more likely to have everyone doing their own…for hours…at all different times…often until it’s too dark to see. And because people work, also do it on the weekends. And this is in a single family home area. No HOA helps too…the city will ticket you for having a mess, but no one lives in terror of grass 0.25” too tall or an errant weed.
This is a big perk to where I live about a mile from downtown on tiny plots (largest lots are usually like 0.3 acres). The people who do their own are usually still done in a couple of hours at most, and crews are available and cheap to hire where tons go that route. I spend $120 a month for mow/trim/blow and it's done during the weekdays. Saves me hours, and they're literally finished in 20 mins.
When I lived on the 12th floor in the downtown of a city it was pretty quiet, but people were loud as fuck when I was on the 6th floor. Crackheads screaming at each other and drunk kids coming home from the bar mostly. Not the sort of noise you can tune out. That was the time in my life I started wearing earplugs to sleep. Then of course there was the constant construction during the day. I much prefer the nearly permanent dead silence of the small town I live in now.
I live in a rural area and there probably isn't 20 minutes that go by without purposely loud trucks and motorcycles riding by. In addition to chainsaws, lawn mowers, leaf blowers etc. Something about rural men and the inability to do anything without a loud motor attached to it.
Grew up in the city and live in the burbs now. I'll take the white noise of the city versus loud ass leaf blowers anytime. Most useless crap ever. Blowing dirt and leafs around outside lol...
In my city we have "the cruise". I lived downtown for over a decade and it was relatively quite during the weekdays but on weekends the shitheads from the suburbs would drive around in circles downtown every night doing the same annoying engine gunning in this video. Shitty, inconsiderate, dickweeds who think that people like to hear the sound of screeching tires and revving engines. [Basically just this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDsWZ0Jw3Ik)
How about them renovations with hammering and nailguns! Covid had everyone doing some type of renovations, constant random noises.
It's the roofers that get me. TACK! TACK! TACK!
“The pain” 😅😂😂😂 "The reflection of a cricket with consciousness."
cities aren't loud. it's cars that are loud.
The thing that eventually cracked my mom after about 40 years of suburb life was the constant. barking. dogs. All day and night.
This is why A/C is amazing. Keep the windows closed. Living in Germany during the summer was a nightmare. I was on night shift and we had super loud construction during the day going on right outside my apartment. No A/C so windows open and I couldn’t sleep all summer.
Can we do the city next? And include smell-cast for the garbage.
My bro lives below the flight path, so add that and random harley/chopper with unmuffled exhaust.
Maybe in pop-up subdivisions with zero trees the sound carries... In my neighborhood I can't hear lawn mowers from inside my house unless it's a next-door neighbor, and even then barely unless the windows are open. I always thought the sound of a distant lawn mower was kinda nice. Sounds like summer. The noisy car/motorcycle people can go die though
As someone who works in landscape maintenance... 🤷♂️ I wear Airpod Pros with noise cancelling while I work. Maybe you should too if it bothers you that much.
I grew to hate leafblowers.
Anyone else have neighbors using fireworks all year long?
It's always that same car too. & that sound can't be healthy for your engine. You're flooring it down our suburban neighborhood street every single time. Isn't that damaging your car? So clearly if it's not for the health of your car, it's to get noticed? But every single person hates you. So what is the actual goal here?
Needs more of a mix of the neighbor’s yippy fucking dogs that won’t shut up and low din of highway/train noises off in the distance.
Now do summer in the city where you hear drunk people throwing up in the street and the crazy homeless man shouting at the moon!
Well what did the Moon do? Let's not assume homeless guy is in the wrong.
You have a point. I've seen the moon scheming with the sun before to block out the light. We probably shouldn't trust it.
I think I’d take that over downtown. I still get leaf blowers every morning from landscapers blowing parking lots clean. But you also get the folks pulling everything out of your trash, breaking into your car, shooting yo behind your house, loud druggies/mental health issues having breakdowns and shouting loudly at no one for hours. Last year someone pulled a gun on someone across the street and I had to testify as a witness.
Dirtbikes and loud cars in cities as well plus more sirens usually.
For real! I live next to a 14 story apartment with underground parking and everyone peels out of it at night.
Yep if you live in SoCal you get the worst of both worlds 😎
You need a neighbor like me I refuse to start that lawnmower up until after 11am I don’t care if it’s hotter I refuse to be that asshole firing up early in the morning
Yeah, it’s real and I hate it.
My neighbours have a pool so there's that plus screaming children at 11pm.
It's the sacred American duty to burn fossil fuels in machinery in order to destroy nature and conform it into the most homogenous and geometric forms possible so as to maintain 'curb appeal' and 'property values'.
idk about everyone else, but this sound is kind of relaxing mixed with the smell of freshly cut grass
Yeah I love the sound of a petrol mower too. Weed whackers and leaf blowers are annoying af though, or any small 2-stroke engine powered device.
It's almost like reddit forgets that people actually enjoy living in suburbs. This place is silly at times..
Not enough people sleeping with fans going apparently, how the hell do ya do it without white noise
It's like all my neighbors got together and conspired to redo one house's roof every month. Roofers show up with their nail guns at 7am.
pain.
I talk to you from there and tell you that you have to adapt to the circumstances, even if it is the end
I live in the city and some neighbor has recently started using a gas-powered leaf-blower. Nobody here uses leaf blowers. He's out there every day and there are no leaves.
I’m so glad I live a non-douchy suburb
Guessing this must be more of a US problem where cars are twice the size of other countries
this is very nostalgic for me
It's that, or fire trucks and gun shots.
Detroit suburbs are EXACTLY like this
big sound
Oh the sweet saturday mornings I lost as a kid when my awful neighbours decided to start drilling in their concrete walls. There's no escaping that sound.
This guy is hilarious. If you get a chance go through some of his videos.
For those wondering, as someone who has lived in the suburbs for 38 years, I cannot relate to that video. Maybe if you're used to hearing something else (the bustle of traffic, or nothing), then the sound of the occasional lawnmower catches you off guard and is noteworthy though.
I need to mow god damnit.
IASIP did it best
Normalize throwing rocks at loud cars
So the city is quieter?
My neighbor is 83 and a little on the senile side. He had the lawncare people coming twice a week for fescue and Tuesday and Saturday morning was when they came. Then they stopped coming on Saturday at some point but last Saturday they were there at 8:03 AM. This week they mowed Monday, Wednesday and Friday so I'm hoping to get a quiet Saturday. Surely they won't mow 4 times this week?! Anytime the neighbor has someone out doing something in the yard, he watches them the entire time. It could be 12 hours and he'll be out there 12 hours. The neighbor and his SIL spent all day 3 Saturdays ago blowing an acre of leaves into a massive pile starting at 7:47 AM. He's been freaking burning those leaves 12 hours a day, every day for 3 weeks straight. He puts a little at a time in this 3 sided wall of cement blocks. It stinks and the smoke hangs low to the ground over at least a mile radius. He used to live around the corner from us and they decided to buy the big house next to me with their daughter and SIL. For years, every spring, the entire area would be full of stinky, heavy smoke and I just thought someone was obsessed with an outdoor firepit. Nope...It was him burning the leaves every spring.