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Post by godotwaits on Oct 23, 2014 9:00:52 GMT -5
If this guy is a player, I hop he's got a version of "see that my grave is kept clean."
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Post by godotwaits on Oct 23, 2014 9:02:01 GMT -5
Well, I'll be damned! Never seen one of them gadgets before. So it wasn't the drugs after all.
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Post by epaul on Oct 23, 2014 9:29:12 GMT -5
Wonderful fall so far. Hope it lasts through Thanksgiving.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 10:12:35 GMT -5
18 trillion leaves came down overnight. Ugh. Looks like a nice day shaping up other than that. Enjoy. I'm looking at a yard totally covered in leaves with most of them still on the trees and I'm remembering the best leaf removal system I ever saw. My friend, Dave, has a very strange, very niche business. He cuts dates in gravestones on site. You know how couples buy stones and then one goes on before and there's another date yet to be put on the stone? That's what Dave does. It's not possible to move a 2 ton stone back to the monument company to have the final date sand blasted on it, so Dave takes the sand blaster to the cemetery. And that's how I saw this awesome way of clearing leaves. Dave's sand blaster is powered by a compressor that is in turn powered by a V8 engine, all on a trailer Dave tows behind his truck. One Autumn morning Dave pulled into my drive and said, "Wanna see something cool?" So I followed Dave out into my leaf-covered front yard. Dave fired up the V8 engine and uncoiled about 75 feet of flexible high pressure hose to which he'd attached a five foot wand he'd fashioned out of metal tubing -- bent with sort of a light angle in the middle and flattened on the end. He also made sure to attach some good grips on the thing because it actually takes some effort to hold the thing in place. But once the air is moving through that system, there isn't a leaf within 25 feet that can stay stuck to the ground. As fast as he cleared my front yard, I'm guessing it would take about fifteen minutes per acre to entirely clear a yard. Even 3-4 foot piles moved easily under that much air pressure. Guess he just found himself a seasonal business. Now if he can invert that airstream to suck up leaves into bags he could make maybe $100 per 1/2 acre yard. Doing 5-6 yards a day would make a tidy sum for a short time every Fall.
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Post by Russell Letson on Oct 23, 2014 10:51:54 GMT -5
A couple years ago when my back and knees said "No!" to clearing our nine-oaksworth of leaves, I called a yard service. They didn't have a V-8 powered wind generator--just two guys with the usual backpack leaf-blowers, plus a truck-mounted suction unit. It took them less than an hour to clear our half lot, even with some rake work to tidy up the corners. It usually takes us several sessions across two or three days to rake and bag (the city then carts the yard waste to its composting site.) But then, two old people with rakes and plastic bags can hardly compete with a truck-size vacuum cleaner. Cost us not quite $100 and they were off to the next job. We're ankle deep in leaves now, and even though the weather has been lovely, a brief consultation with my back suggests a call to the yard guys.
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Post by Hobson on Oct 23, 2014 10:54:04 GMT -5
Trip to Tucson today. Taking Mr. H to a medical appointment. Totally unrelated to his visit to the retinal specialist yesterday at which he got an injection in his eye. His vision is still a bit fuzzy from that, so I get to drive.
Leaves? They're just starting to fall off the mesquite trees. With two acres and no real lawn, we ignore them.
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Post by dickt on Oct 23, 2014 12:12:12 GMT -5
Eating lunch in Chillicothe after leaving C'ville at 7 ayem. Chicago for dinner
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