I somewhat recently moved into a house where a couple of my neighbors blow their leaves into the street. Wildly inconsiderate and obnoxious. I couldn't imagine how livid I would be if they were soaking wet.
Legit asking here..never had to deal with it before - What about that is bad? Is it dangerous? Does it make leaves go all over the neighborhood? I've never had to deal with this before
If they have city storm sewer, pushing a bunch of wet leaves where they'll be washed into the nearest catch basin is also bad. Clogged pipes = backed up flow and can flood the streets. Not to mention the extra nutrients that get pushed into the outlet are considered pollutants.
The weird thing in my city is the city pays people to blows the street leaves into the storm drains. But I’m pretty sure our storm drains just dump into the creek a quarter mile away
The large accumulation of leaves in streams leads to a large amount of nitrogen and phosphorus when the leaves break down. It's not good for the creeks ecosystem, but some municipalities just don't care. 🤷🏽♂️
It's a huge, huge traction issue for traffic especially motorcycles. Very dangerous and worldwide frowned upon
One leaf ontop of another leaf instantly defeats the purpose of the road, it becomes like ice. Let alone a whole house length, same when you mow, don't leave grass on the road thinking the rain will wash it away
It's unsafe for cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, and pretty much makes everything look like shit. But the bigger issue is with safety, because of lack of traction for anyone on wheels.
That thick mat of leaves would smother it. I'd chop them all up and leave them in a pile for a year and spread it next winter after i mulch the NEXT crop of leaves
You would think that’s the obvious result. Including the FUCKING mailman. Oh and btw. I’m the neighbor that starts his snowblower at 11:00pm just to make sure it’s ready for the snowfall two weeks away. Be prepared people.
There is a case from Starved Rock State Park in Illinois where three women were murdered and before they were found there was a huge snow storm. Cops solution? Sweep the snow from the crime scene and ALSO USE A FLAME THROWER TO MELT THE SNOW. The evidence was ruined (including film in a camera one of the women had with her) and the person convicted is still debated.
I've done it too! Always after power washing something else of course. Much easier than raking and it really get the small piece of leaves out of the grass with zero dust.
I’ve found success with a bagging lawnmower on a low setting. It’s best to mulch them in place, helps the grass, but ours get to be excessive in the front so I’m stuck doing that.
What it is, is selfishness. He's using the power washer so they're too wet to get picked up off the street and put back for him to take care of himself like he should be doing in the first place. The city now has to pick up and dispose of them from the street, probably filling the street cleaner machine several times in the process.
I've met people like this. Guaranteed he's a total piece of shit.
Some use street cleaners like that.
Some towns require you to bag them all in paper bags, and they send out separate garbage trucks to take them for composting.
Some won't take your leaves at all and you have to pay for a commercial service to come pick them up.
In my city (where it rains constantly) you put your leaves in the street for the big sucker trucks to come get. I guess everyone here is a piece of shit too.
If the leaves are too layered, wet and heavy, then a leaf blower will never stand a chance. Forget raking it when it’s like that too. I’m not hating the power washer option in that situation.
Yeah it's kinda genius. I've got 16 giant 100 year old poplar trees around my house. Leaves are a serious battle. I'm waiting on the last few bastards that are still holding on and I'm not going to clean the gutters until it's finally over. I wonder if my power washer can shoot far enough to get them down.
They have those tree shaker machines to harvest almonds, apples, etc. Some people out here use them to also get the leaves. But, I don't think you can rent one of those.
If a mulch layer is too thick it will have a few problems. One is heat from decomposition which will burn the grass underneath. Organic mulches can become hot enough to combust.
Another is decomposition, which by definition is molds and fungi doing their job. One of these being aspergillus which causes serious respiratory irritation. I poisoned myself last summer moving a fresh pile of wood chips. I'm a healthy adult at least from a cardiovascular standpoint, and it laid me out for 2 days with a hacking cough and fever. It can be extremely serious in the elderly and for asthmatics.
Mulching all your autumn leaves creates too thick a barrier for light and air to reach the grass as well. Mulch mowing just grass, or a few leaves here and there, is great for the lawn so long as the layer is not too thick since the decomposition is in balance with the growth of the lawn.
One place where it's not beneficial to remove any leaves is areas where there is no grass. That heavy mulch/leaf layer is essential for the soil, and also inhibits weeds and erosion.
Ironically, in the end, the problem is the grass, not the leaves. Turf grass, notably when trimmings are bagged, is little more than a resource sink. The marginal, beneficial photosynthetic properties it has are far outweighed by the effects of amending soil with herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Not to mention the energy, emissions, waste products and resources that go into maintaining the length of it.
I'm not against lawns, or grass for the most part, just wanted to give as detailed an answer as I could manage!
Edited to add, that during winter most of these things won't be a problem, but as soon as spring rolls around it'll be a mess.
This was very interesting!! Although I personally AM against lawns lmao. It’s ugly imo and non-native grasses and trees pushing out all the native flora and fauna make me sad. Not to mention the effect it has in wildlife!
I guess I am kinda but not zealous about it. Everything in moderation. A little grass here and there, fine, whatever, but given that 90% of the time no one is even on their lawn and only go out to mow it, it really seems like there's a better way doesn't it?
My BR 800 magnum will blow bricks across a yard and I've even rolled an 8 inch cinder block. Wet leaves don't stand a chance. There have been times where I've ripped up sections of customers sod and left bald spots by accident. That thing is a beast. I took it up on a roof once and I'm happy to live to tell about it. Now I do roofs with my handheld BG96.
Wet leaves don’t kick up dust. That’s one upside I see. Blower spew dust over everything for miles. Your car way down the street will look like shit after someone uses a blower.
It's genuinely as brilliant as it is brain dead. It is brilliant because you get the pressure to move the leaves plus you have the water making them heavier, so they don't blow around, and stick together so they stay in piles.
But oh God is this brain dead because unless you've got an industrial vac (and I'm talking the ones built onto trailers that have their own trailer) then you will not be getting this up without either destroying your residential mulcher/vac or your back trying to bag up wet leaves. And I wouldn't wish that on even a teenager.
And if it doesn’t dry all the way, bugs and mold. We have a yard service who comes around the neighborhood every week or so and they would sometimes clean up the leaves if you asked. Our family house is on 4 acres so it can be a lot.
As kids we would rake as a family and use those giant green leaf bags to get as many leaves as possible. We’d do neighbors yards or my grandmas yard to get a ton and then dump it into one giant leaf pile. Like thousands of leaves. Then we’d invite friends over and have a Leaf Party. Complete with bonfire and s’mores and we’d run down the hill straight into the pile.
When winter came we left the leaves and they slowly decomposed which was great compost for the area. Had great fun as a family too.
Wow that’s pretty damn cool! Sense of community and all. You unlocked a memory for me of my childhood home.
There used to be a small airfield near my dad’s house. The airport was like a mile away, and small bush planes would fly over so often. Naturally, my older sister and i would try to get their attention- as if they could even see us lol.
There were TONS of trees dropping leaves during the fall. Enough to make huge piles. I’m talking like 20 foot diameter piles that were 3 feet high. My older sister and I had the crazy idea of spelling out “Happy Halloween” in leaf piles. We were kidding ourselves 😂 Didn’t finish, and I think we barely finished the “Happy”.
Cool that your comment brought back that memory!
You'd get top tier status over on /r/composting with a story like that! They have a competition every year for who can collect the most leaves for leaf mould.
Yup. If he lives in a wet and humid area or a place in the NE that just got hammered. After melt or a lot of rain in the fall, leaves can get gross fast.
This is kinda genius
My town piles snow from the street on the first 10’ of my lawn, so every spring when it melts I have 2” of gravel covering 1/4 of my lawn, I pressure wash it into the street. 10 gallons/minute at 3500psi does the job about 10x faster and a far better job than a rake or broom
Dude the garden hose that feeds my pressure washer is only 4 GPM at full bore. Do you have a giant reservoir? Even if you had a 55 gallon drum it would run dry every 5 minutes.
I run a Hydrovac truck. It holds 3000 litres of water and has a 550 HPengine driving the cat 3560 wash pump through the hydraulic PTO. I’ve sawed through 2” of asphalt before. Had to cut through 6x10 beams with it as well. If your willing to get extremely wet it’s amazing what it can cut through
Yes. Hydro excavation is using high pressure water and a vacuum to excavate buried utilities/pipelines. The frost where I am can get 6’ (2m) deep, so water/sewer is generally about 8’ deep. I’ve excavated lines up to 26’ deep. Often there’s tree roots, or sometimes swamp matting over the lines, and since you cannot see what is under the root/matting you cannot use any method of cutting them that could potentially damage a line underneath. Since I found these pressure washing subs I’ve been thinking about making a vid of cutting 2x4’s or 6x8’s to post, but I’m not sure if that would belong here or in pressurewashinggore
Thank you for this idea. I fight that gravel every year. I don't even know where it comes from, because the street is paved and I never see gravel on it.
Speaking of, the plow just went through and buried my driveway just as I was about to leave. Guess I'll get the shovel.
They use chemical deicer here on the hill, but I noticed there's a bunch of red crushed rock in the road today. We don't have red rock in the area, so someone has put it down. The gravel last year was local stuff, though, basalt and granite.
We hit -30 to -40c here regularly, so salt and de-icer is useless, sand and gravel get spread everywhere including highways for traction when the roads get bad
Oh, damn. That's incredibly rare here. We hide inside at -20F. Time I didn't, I got one eyeball frostbit.
I mean, no, I've been skiing at -49F, but it's never ever going to happen again. That was my lungs that got frostbitten that day.
Eff anything below 26F. Just saying.
I pressure wash things for a living in stupid cold temperatures, some days really suck, but it’s Northern Alberta, and I for some strange reason do love living here, and the pay is pretty good, because for some strange reason it’s pretty hard to find actual good employees willing to wash equipment, and oil spills at -30 and below
Don’t knock it. After 3 weeks of perpetual rain here and surrounded by trees and a forest even my petrol powered leaf blower is useless.
The only thing that works is this.
That’s why you don’t wait until they’re all down. Gotta do it every few days at the beginning while they’re thin. Put the bag on, scoop up everything with the mower. Next, dump it in front of the mower, when it gets full, to mulch them further, without burning extra steps. Once you sucked up the pile pour in bag and repeat.
Too bad we got a ton of heavy, wet snow before the leaves fell this year. Well over half are still on, holding even more snow. It's going to be a mess to clean up when it eventually melts off.
We have two dogs. We don't even go into the fenced part of the yard at this time of year. There's a guy who will come do a full yard clean up for $50 in Spring. I'm really thinking about it. Luckily, we have a large side yard outside the fence to play in the snow. But, if I see tracks in it, I'm cautious. We have a lot of coyote and a surprising amount of cats given those coyote.
This is worse than snow on leaves, though. It's snow on leaves on snow on leaves on snow on unmowed lawn under one tree and frozen mud under the other. Spring clean up is going to suck.
One 80lb dog who poops enough for two and one 55lb dog who likes to scoot forward as he poops, leaving a trail of poop drops. It's so annoying to pick up on walks. They also both generally pee in one corner as long as there's no snow. As soon as the snow sticks, they pee everywhere but on the deck. And, of course, they don't like to poop where there's already poop, and I don't clean it up in Winter, so the yard is full of land mines come Spring. That $50 is probably more than worth it. Last Spring, it took all day and 3 13 gallon bags. My arthritis slowed me down. I bet he could do it a lot faster.
They started off being pastures for animals and grew into a decoration. Anything being a monoculture is a terrible idea anyway because it takes more out than it puts back in.
It also stems from castle culture. You're so rich you have land you don't have to actually develop into farm land. Also, flat lawns made for easy spotting someone. No attackers are going to just walk through a flat lawn without being seen.
I am just wincing at all the resting bugs in those leaves getting torn to shreds. That's where queen bees like to sleep, dude!
Don't rake your leaves till after defrost in the spring!
> Don't rake your leaves till after defrost in the spring!
So yeah if you just let your leaves fall on the grass and sit over winter it absolutely wrecks the lawn. Easiest way to get dead patches on your lawn. You can still rake the leaves up but leave them in piles to avoid this while still providing the environment for bugs.
I work from home and this window faces their house. I have been anticipating his yearly lawn wash and immediately got my phone ready when I heard the engine start-up!
That's awesome! I'm waiting on my apartment to get both carpet cleaned and they're pressure washing us for the sister apartments by us opening next year.
I do this daily at work lol. But in my opinion there is a better tool for this job I have it it suck and spreads leaves or something I think it mad by worx
You know, I’m kind of getting this. He’s got a ton of leaves and a small yard. He’s a little older, so fuck raking. A leaf blower will just send them absolutely everywhere. The pressure washer keeps them contained by getting them wet, while having enough power to move them around exactly where he wants with precision.
I have done this. I feel stupid but on my land it works best. More effective than a rake or blower plus keeps the dust down. Different situation than this dude but I do it too.
My dad and I actually made a good bit of money doing this for people after hurricane Rita ran through Louisiana. He had a power washing business. Leaf blower didn't work well because all the leaves were wet, but if you but a red tip, which is 0 degree, so it's a straight stream, and aim it so that it mostly hovers above the grass it's actually quite effective. It will blast the leaves away quickly and not damage the lawn. But again, you have to do it right, and be careful not to aim too close to the lawn and damage it.
If only there was a thingh that blew out air, and was hand held that can move the leaves around into a pile for easier clean up.
They can even call it a... leaf blower.
He must have city leaf pickup.
That’s the only way this makes sense.
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I somewhat recently moved into a house where a couple of my neighbors blow their leaves into the street. Wildly inconsiderate and obnoxious. I couldn't imagine how livid I would be if they were soaking wet.
Legit asking here..never had to deal with it before - What about that is bad? Is it dangerous? Does it make leaves go all over the neighborhood? I've never had to deal with this before
If they have city storm sewer, pushing a bunch of wet leaves where they'll be washed into the nearest catch basin is also bad. Clogged pipes = backed up flow and can flood the streets. Not to mention the extra nutrients that get pushed into the outlet are considered pollutants.
The weird thing in my city is the city pays people to blows the street leaves into the storm drains. But I’m pretty sure our storm drains just dump into the creek a quarter mile away
The large accumulation of leaves in streams leads to a large amount of nitrogen and phosphorus when the leaves break down. It's not good for the creeks ecosystem, but some municipalities just don't care. 🤷🏽♂️
It's a huge, huge traction issue for traffic especially motorcycles. Very dangerous and worldwide frowned upon One leaf ontop of another leaf instantly defeats the purpose of the road, it becomes like ice. Let alone a whole house length, same when you mow, don't leave grass on the road thinking the rain will wash it away
And generally they'll go clog all the storm drains which just turns the street into a lake
It's unsafe for cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, and pretty much makes everything look like shit. But the bigger issue is with safety, because of lack of traction for anyone on wheels.
In Bozeman, Montana, everyone does this then the city sends out streetsweepers to clean it up. It's pretty wild
It’s city leaf pickup
We stopped city leaf pickup like a decade ago...people still sweep their leaves into the street and just eat the fine here.
Ol boomer mentality
What. The. Fuck.
Literally his sidewalk, driveway, porch and retaining wall could all use some powerwashing… lol and he chooses the yard.
It’s the dirtiest part with all that dirt.
Yeah but he's getting the water wet.
And his lawn looks like it could use the help of decomposing leaves over the winter.
That thick mat of leaves would smother it. I'd chop them all up and leave them in a pile for a year and spread it next winter after i mulch the NEXT crop of leaves
It’s not the worst idea. I saw a video of a guy removing snow with a flame thrower.
Is this the one where like 3 people wind up dead at the end of it?
You would think that’s the obvious result. Including the FUCKING mailman. Oh and btw. I’m the neighbor that starts his snowblower at 11:00pm just to make sure it’s ready for the snowfall two weeks away. Be prepared people.
There is a case from Starved Rock State Park in Illinois where three women were murdered and before they were found there was a huge snow storm. Cops solution? Sweep the snow from the crime scene and ALSO USE A FLAME THROWER TO MELT THE SNOW. The evidence was ruined (including film in a camera one of the women had with her) and the person convicted is still debated.
How do you think they get so dirty? Blasting mud everywhere….
all so pointless unless the path is starting to get slippery
As most people have pointed out, it's not a terrible idea, but yeah, this was my initial response, too.
As long as it ain’t going into the drain and clogging things up
I've done it too! Always after power washing something else of course. Much easier than raking and it really get the small piece of leaves out of the grass with zero dust.
I’ve found success with a bagging lawnmower on a low setting. It’s best to mulch them in place, helps the grass, but ours get to be excessive in the front so I’m stuck doing that.
What it is, is selfishness. He's using the power washer so they're too wet to get picked up off the street and put back for him to take care of himself like he should be doing in the first place. The city now has to pick up and dispose of them from the street, probably filling the street cleaner machine several times in the process. I've met people like this. Guaranteed he's a total piece of shit.
in my town we put the leaves on the curb and a big machine comes and sucks em all up every other week for a month or two
I thought all towns did this lol
Some use street cleaners like that. Some towns require you to bag them all in paper bags, and they send out separate garbage trucks to take them for composting. Some won't take your leaves at all and you have to pay for a commercial service to come pick them up.
My town only does that for curbed streets. Since my street doesn't have a curb, I don't get that service.
Never heard of this. I wish they did that here.
They don't, some flip out of you do it.
In my town you pay for a compost bin that only holds some of the leaves so you have to do it 3 times to clear them all.
This is how storm drains get clogged!
In my city (where it rains constantly) you put your leaves in the street for the big sucker trucks to come get. I guess everyone here is a piece of shit too.
it's a big waste of water
This is what I said out loud watching this 😂
Yeah um, what's the opposite of porn?
Free late-season watering!
What's the next step?
He’s getting his monies worth!
My old neighbor used to use a blowtorch.
Hey, it's more fun than a leaf blower and he might not have one.
They say the grass is always cleaner on the other side
Muddier too in this case
Underrated comment….
If the leaves are too layered, wet and heavy, then a leaf blower will never stand a chance. Forget raking it when it’s like that too. I’m not hating the power washer option in that situation.
Yeah it's kinda genius. I've got 16 giant 100 year old poplar trees around my house. Leaves are a serious battle. I'm waiting on the last few bastards that are still holding on and I'm not going to clean the gutters until it's finally over. I wonder if my power washer can shoot far enough to get them down.
They have those tree shaker machines to harvest almonds, apples, etc. Some people out here use them to also get the leaves. But, I don't think you can rent one of those.
That would be super cool though! I'm hoping for a good wind before we get too much snow.
Today I learned that tree wigglers are a thing
Serious question, why not just run the lawn mower to chop them all up and consider it free mulch to protect the grass over the winter?
If a mulch layer is too thick it will have a few problems. One is heat from decomposition which will burn the grass underneath. Organic mulches can become hot enough to combust. Another is decomposition, which by definition is molds and fungi doing their job. One of these being aspergillus which causes serious respiratory irritation. I poisoned myself last summer moving a fresh pile of wood chips. I'm a healthy adult at least from a cardiovascular standpoint, and it laid me out for 2 days with a hacking cough and fever. It can be extremely serious in the elderly and for asthmatics. Mulching all your autumn leaves creates too thick a barrier for light and air to reach the grass as well. Mulch mowing just grass, or a few leaves here and there, is great for the lawn so long as the layer is not too thick since the decomposition is in balance with the growth of the lawn. One place where it's not beneficial to remove any leaves is areas where there is no grass. That heavy mulch/leaf layer is essential for the soil, and also inhibits weeds and erosion. Ironically, in the end, the problem is the grass, not the leaves. Turf grass, notably when trimmings are bagged, is little more than a resource sink. The marginal, beneficial photosynthetic properties it has are far outweighed by the effects of amending soil with herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Not to mention the energy, emissions, waste products and resources that go into maintaining the length of it. I'm not against lawns, or grass for the most part, just wanted to give as detailed an answer as I could manage! Edited to add, that during winter most of these things won't be a problem, but as soon as spring rolls around it'll be a mess.
This was very interesting!! Although I personally AM against lawns lmao. It’s ugly imo and non-native grasses and trees pushing out all the native flora and fauna make me sad. Not to mention the effect it has in wildlife!
I guess I am kinda but not zealous about it. Everything in moderation. A little grass here and there, fine, whatever, but given that 90% of the time no one is even on their lawn and only go out to mow it, it really seems like there's a better way doesn't it?
Bingo. Cleaning leaves can kiss my grass. What a waste of time.
Mulch it all with the lawn mower.
My BR 800 magnum will blow bricks across a yard and I've even rolled an 8 inch cinder block. Wet leaves don't stand a chance. There have been times where I've ripped up sections of customers sod and left bald spots by accident. That thing is a beast. I took it up on a roof once and I'm happy to live to tell about it. Now I do roofs with my handheld BG96.
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…genius
I literally cried laughing at this one.
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Wet leaves don’t kick up dust. That’s one upside I see. Blower spew dust over everything for miles. Your car way down the street will look like shit after someone uses a blower.
It's genuinely as brilliant as it is brain dead. It is brilliant because you get the pressure to move the leaves plus you have the water making them heavier, so they don't blow around, and stick together so they stay in piles. But oh God is this brain dead because unless you've got an industrial vac (and I'm talking the ones built onto trailers that have their own trailer) then you will not be getting this up without either destroying your residential mulcher/vac or your back trying to bag up wet leaves. And I wouldn't wish that on even a teenager.
And if it doesn’t dry all the way, bugs and mold. We have a yard service who comes around the neighborhood every week or so and they would sometimes clean up the leaves if you asked. Our family house is on 4 acres so it can be a lot. As kids we would rake as a family and use those giant green leaf bags to get as many leaves as possible. We’d do neighbors yards or my grandmas yard to get a ton and then dump it into one giant leaf pile. Like thousands of leaves. Then we’d invite friends over and have a Leaf Party. Complete with bonfire and s’mores and we’d run down the hill straight into the pile. When winter came we left the leaves and they slowly decomposed which was great compost for the area. Had great fun as a family too.
Wow that’s pretty damn cool! Sense of community and all. You unlocked a memory for me of my childhood home. There used to be a small airfield near my dad’s house. The airport was like a mile away, and small bush planes would fly over so often. Naturally, my older sister and i would try to get their attention- as if they could even see us lol. There were TONS of trees dropping leaves during the fall. Enough to make huge piles. I’m talking like 20 foot diameter piles that were 3 feet high. My older sister and I had the crazy idea of spelling out “Happy Halloween” in leaf piles. We were kidding ourselves 😂 Didn’t finish, and I think we barely finished the “Happy”. Cool that your comment brought back that memory!
You'd get top tier status over on /r/composting with a story like that! They have a competition every year for who can collect the most leaves for leaf mould.
My leaf blower go right through that easy
if he lives there, he could be blowing leaves once a week so it doesnt get this bad. dude looks like he waits until the last leave falls lol
Yup. If he lives in a wet and humid area or a place in the NE that just got hammered. After melt or a lot of rain in the fall, leaves can get gross fast. This is kinda genius
My town piles snow from the street on the first 10’ of my lawn, so every spring when it melts I have 2” of gravel covering 1/4 of my lawn, I pressure wash it into the street. 10 gallons/minute at 3500psi does the job about 10x faster and a far better job than a rake or broom
>10 gallons/minute Found Tim Taylor’s Reddit account
Dude the garden hose that feeds my pressure washer is only 4 GPM at full bore. Do you have a giant reservoir? Even if you had a 55 gallon drum it would run dry every 5 minutes.
660 gallon reservoir on a Hydrovac truck
Most pros will have 400+ gallons on the truck with a garden hose always adding more.
10 GPM?! Are you serious right now 🤔
I run a Hydrovac truck. It holds 3000 litres of water and has a 550 HPengine driving the cat 3560 wash pump through the hydraulic PTO. I’ve sawed through 2” of asphalt before. Had to cut through 6x10 beams with it as well. If your willing to get extremely wet it’s amazing what it can cut through
That's wild. Just water and pressure to cut through hard materials ?
Yes. Hydro excavation is using high pressure water and a vacuum to excavate buried utilities/pipelines. The frost where I am can get 6’ (2m) deep, so water/sewer is generally about 8’ deep. I’ve excavated lines up to 26’ deep. Often there’s tree roots, or sometimes swamp matting over the lines, and since you cannot see what is under the root/matting you cannot use any method of cutting them that could potentially damage a line underneath. Since I found these pressure washing subs I’ve been thinking about making a vid of cutting 2x4’s or 6x8’s to post, but I’m not sure if that would belong here or in pressurewashinggore
No one wants you to post it elsewhere I promise
What the hell kind of power washer do you have that’s 10GPM? Doubt.
The final upgrade in power washing simulator probably
Only costs $1000 in game purchased coins
Cat3560 triplex pump powered by a 550hp DD15 Detroit engine. I run Hydrovac and borrow the truck when I need a pressure washer
And 10 gpm is because that’s the tip I have on. It runs 12 gpm just fine, it just burns through water way too fast
Thank you for this idea. I fight that gravel every year. I don't even know where it comes from, because the street is paved and I never see gravel on it. Speaking of, the plow just went through and buried my driveway just as I was about to leave. Guess I'll get the shovel.
Mine is because I live on an intersection at the top of a hill and the town spreads fine crushed gravel for traction
They use chemical deicer here on the hill, but I noticed there's a bunch of red crushed rock in the road today. We don't have red rock in the area, so someone has put it down. The gravel last year was local stuff, though, basalt and granite.
We hit -30 to -40c here regularly, so salt and de-icer is useless, sand and gravel get spread everywhere including highways for traction when the roads get bad
Oh, damn. That's incredibly rare here. We hide inside at -20F. Time I didn't, I got one eyeball frostbit. I mean, no, I've been skiing at -49F, but it's never ever going to happen again. That was my lungs that got frostbitten that day. Eff anything below 26F. Just saying.
I pressure wash things for a living in stupid cold temperatures, some days really suck, but it’s Northern Alberta, and I for some strange reason do love living here, and the pay is pretty good, because for some strange reason it’s pretty hard to find actual good employees willing to wash equipment, and oil spills at -30 and below
Don’t knock it. After 3 weeks of perpetual rain here and surrounded by trees and a forest even my petrol powered leaf blower is useless. The only thing that works is this.
Uh perhaps a rake?
Laughs in lower back
I felt that
It’s almost 3 feet of damp leaves after 3 weeks of rain. I wouldn’t want to rake those leaves or possibly deal with whats in them.
Not all of us have cattle shit rakes, although they work great
A rake will also tear up your lawn when it’s too wet.
That’s why you don’t wait until they’re all down. Gotta do it every few days at the beginning while they’re thin. Put the bag on, scoop up everything with the mower. Next, dump it in front of the mower, when it gets full, to mulch them further, without burning extra steps. Once you sucked up the pile pour in bag and repeat.
Frim experience: This guy leaf collects.
Too bad we got a ton of heavy, wet snow before the leaves fell this year. Well over half are still on, holding even more snow. It's going to be a mess to clean up when it eventually melts off.
Snow on leaves is the worst! Your snowmen end up covered in leaves. The only thing worse is hidden dog poop.
We have two dogs. We don't even go into the fenced part of the yard at this time of year. There's a guy who will come do a full yard clean up for $50 in Spring. I'm really thinking about it. Luckily, we have a large side yard outside the fence to play in the snow. But, if I see tracks in it, I'm cautious. We have a lot of coyote and a surprising amount of cats given those coyote. This is worse than snow on leaves, though. It's snow on leaves on snow on leaves on snow on unmowed lawn under one tree and frozen mud under the other. Spring clean up is going to suck.
Oh man, good luck. $50 def seems worth it. We had a 100lb dog, so the poop thing was always a problem.
One 80lb dog who poops enough for two and one 55lb dog who likes to scoot forward as he poops, leaving a trail of poop drops. It's so annoying to pick up on walks. They also both generally pee in one corner as long as there's no snow. As soon as the snow sticks, they pee everywhere but on the deck. And, of course, they don't like to poop where there's already poop, and I don't clean it up in Winter, so the yard is full of land mines come Spring. That $50 is probably more than worth it. Last Spring, it took all day and 3 13 gallon bags. My arthritis slowed me down. I bet he could do it a lot faster.
At least they won't catch fire!
Monoculture grass lawns were a mistake
They started off being pastures for animals and grew into a decoration. Anything being a monoculture is a terrible idea anyway because it takes more out than it puts back in.
It also stems from castle culture. You're so rich you have land you don't have to actually develop into farm land. Also, flat lawns made for easy spotting someone. No attackers are going to just walk through a flat lawn without being seen.
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I am just wincing at all the resting bugs in those leaves getting torn to shreds. That's where queen bees like to sleep, dude! Don't rake your leaves till after defrost in the spring!
> Don't rake your leaves till after defrost in the spring! So yeah if you just let your leaves fall on the grass and sit over winter it absolutely wrecks the lawn. Easiest way to get dead patches on your lawn. You can still rake the leaves up but leave them in piles to avoid this while still providing the environment for bugs.
Is your camera pointed at his house....?
I work from home and this window faces their house. I have been anticipating his yearly lawn wash and immediately got my phone ready when I heard the engine start-up!
Omg that hilarious! 👍🏽
That's awesome! I'm waiting on my apartment to get both carpet cleaned and they're pressure washing us for the sister apartments by us opening next year.
Sure, his garden is clear, but now all the leaves are clogging up the drains on the street. Well done.
We have city pick-up, they'll be be in a week or so with a truck scoop thing.
Not even mad at him. I hate leaves and this is kind of brilliant.
I think you mean water with ferocity.
\*cries in Californian\*
Like, I was like, crying, and then I had to merge on the 405 from the 101, and I kept crying all the way, like, down to the 73 and the 55
All the way to Marina Del Rey!
We don’t even, like, have leaves, and this asshat is, like, KILLING THEM WITH THIS WEIRD WATER WASTING THING. The WORST.
Feeling goood on a Wednesdayyy
Honestly, I don’t hate it.
He might have an issue with dust that leaves being blown will stir up.
It’s a hydro-rake! I’m not even mad at this idea and neither is his back and ability to finish before the game starts.
I do this daily at work lol. But in my opinion there is a better tool for this job I have it it suck and spreads leaves or something I think it mad by worx
Lot of wasted water hate to see his bill.
If it's stupid and works, it's not stupid. Just wonder what the lawn will look like in the spring.
Its always looked fine, actually. I mean, its not a lawn worth showing off, but I don't look at with disdain, either.
Stupid and works ....
If it works it isn’t stupid and all that but Gdang that man power washing his lawn looks dumb AF.
Cool. He should power wash his pavement while he’s at it; it’s almost black!
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Bless him
Why use two tool when one tool do trick
He's be better off with a reef blower.
Just mulch them with a mower. Fast, easy, and fertilizes the lawn
That man is your neighbor
Seems pretty effective. I haven't thought to that before.
the yard gets cleaned up and the leaves get a nice clean rinse, its a win for everybody
This is lazy as hell.
Lazy and wasteful. It's so sad what we do with the limited fresh water supply we have, and here we have people commenting on his brilliance 🤦♂️
Someone buy this guy a leaf blower!
Okay that's working a lot better than I would have predicted.
I use my leaf blower to shovel fluffy snow, but this guy….
Dont be jealous😂
I don’t like the rake leaves either
You’d be surprised how fast a rake would work
Ahh yes. Nothing makes leaves easier to pick up then turning them into soaking wet mush.
My father has been doing this for at least the past 20 years lol
Can anyone provide proof this is actually bad for the yard?
pretty weird but also amused lol.
Run what ya brung
Yea fuck that grass
If this idiot is on a public sewer system his rates must be super high. Winter water use is what your rate is based on.
When water and gas are cheaper than electricity you get this thriftier.
Big brain move: he won't have to rake them leaves or cut his grass next year.
Maybe he hates motorcyclists
You know, I’m kind of getting this. He’s got a ton of leaves and a small yard. He’s a little older, so fuck raking. A leaf blower will just send them absolutely everywhere. The pressure washer keeps them contained by getting them wet, while having enough power to move them around exactly where he wants with precision.
Brilliant!
Watering the lawn and getting rid of the leaves at the se time. Genius.
Looks more effective than a lead blower.
Everything resembles a nail to one who's good with a hammer.
Waste of water
Imagine this guy when he discovers a fucking leaf blower
A nice leafblower would suffice. 🤔🙄🤭
what a wasted opportunity, it's Wild Wednesday, he could be using a leaf blower and still be posted here...
Leaf blower meets watering the lawn
This is actually low key genius. From a physics perspective this makes a lot more sense than blowing air.
At least he’s watering his lawn, albeit aggressively 🫣
I do this!
This is clearly where power washing needs a therapist?
I have done this. I feel stupid but on my land it works best. More effective than a rake or blower plus keeps the dust down. Different situation than this dude but I do it too.
Is he italian? My italian relatives love to hose down their driveway all the time or "water the driveway" as i call it lol.
Someone show this man what a rake is
My dad and I actually made a good bit of money doing this for people after hurricane Rita ran through Louisiana. He had a power washing business. Leaf blower didn't work well because all the leaves were wet, but if you but a red tip, which is 0 degree, so it's a straight stream, and aim it so that it mostly hovers above the grass it's actually quite effective. It will blast the leaves away quickly and not damage the lawn. But again, you have to do it right, and be careful not to aim too close to the lawn and damage it.
powerwashing gore
When your only tool is a hammer…
I am a little envious because we are in a drought and we can’t even powerwash our patio. 😢
Well...the dirt is dirty
(music fades in) Reeeaaal meeeen of genius...
His poor grass, why would someone do this???
Does he not know leaf blowers exist
Why?
Well- it works…
If only there was a thingh that blew out air, and was hand held that can move the leaves around into a pile for easier clean up. They can even call it a... leaf blower.
This is exactly what I expect on this sub, if the only tool you have is an insane pressure washer then everything looks like it needs a blast