Shooting grass clippings into the road from your yard? I think it’s jank.
What’s the pack’s thoughts on
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I’m old so I don’t know what jank means but I don’t throw my clippings in the road if I can help it.
I have a nearby neighbor that does it weekly. I don't like it,
But, I will not say a word.
In many cases a mulching mower will limit the need.
But, I will not say a word.
In many cases a mulching mower will limit the need.
If I do it, I make a pass down the street to blow clippings back into my yard.
Can’t stand it, especially if I’m driving by and they continue to shoot it in the street. Other than that, really if they clean it up I’m ok with it, just don’t leave it out there, and don’t hit my car or truck with a rock.
Damn, I kinda like the OP on this. I'm a man made climate denier but think keeping streets and their drainage sytems full of clippings is not a very good idea.
i dont see any problem with it - mostly dirt anyway
My wife is very level headed and low key, but that sets her off. Therefore, I’m against it.
Same people that do that also drive in the left lane.
I figure y’all are running low on things to b itch about, so I’m just trying to keep your mind occupied. You’re welcome
If that is your biggest problem then you have it made in the shade. Getting worked up about all the little stuff will push you into an early grave. It might not be the best way to be a good neighbor, but it could be worse, much worse. Breath deep and just enjoy life.
Mulch your grass. It’s better for your yard anyway.
I don’t do it, and it doesn’t make me angry when others do, but I judge people and think less of them when they do it. Same as not putting one’s buggy in the little buggy “corral”. Grass clippings are good for your yard and bad for your neighborhood drainage systems, so the choice seems obvious to me.
All or practically all clippings should stay on your property. The "rule" is you should make 3 passes around your property boundary blowing grass inward before blowing clippings outward.
Doesn’t bother me. They’ll blow away pretty quickly.
I don’t have much along the street to cut so it’s not really an issue either way.
I don’t have much along the street to cut so it’s not really an issue either way.
Lord talk about first world problems. It depends nice curb and gutter neighborhood , no. You out on county road 12 BFE cutting 3 acres let it fly
People who do this probably don’t return their shopping carts to the store/bin either.
No neighbors so I do whatever the fuckk I want and I can do it naked if I want
Even in the country, ole Miss Peabody will call the sheriff's office and give them an ear full about the disgusting pervert down yonder running around nekkkit.
not in my case - always return the cart but dgaf about grass on a road
It's dangerous to motorcycles and bicycles, and just plain lazy.
Just mulch it.
Just mulch it.
**** this is probably opposite of what it should be for safety reasons. Not going to have any motorcycle with speed in a curb and gutter neighborhood.
It doesn't bother me either way, but it's so easy to just do a few rows near the street where the clipping blow into the yard. Why would people not just do that?
Studies have not shown, but fools like to argue that grass clippings shot onto streets help to curb global warming even if it doesn't help the neighbor's curb appeal. Grass clippings shot onto the hot pavement, concrete, etc lowers the temp of the road and the heat coming up off of it. If everybody did this, global warming would plummet by less than 0.0000000000000000034% for the time that the clippings remain in the road.
There is a law in the Mississippi Code that prohibits throwing “any solid waste” or “litter” on a roadway or thoroughfare, but this law is seldomly enforced for those who litter out of moving vehicles, and practically never cited against residents that blow their grass clippings into the roadway.
Forget all that, if everybody did it, the gutter system would be clogged up. And that would be immediately bad.
So it’s more effective than adding ethanol to the gas?
When I lived in the city I never blew the grass clippings into the street. Now that I live 8 miles out of town on a country road, I blow them wherever I want to. That 60” cut Scag mower I use doesn’t care about the clippings.
I try not to shoot clippings in the road, but it it happens I ain't doing chit. It dries, gets blown away by passing cars/washed down the gutters in a day or so... I hate two aspects of yard-care; weed-eating and blowing. I do all I can to avoid both.
At best it's trashy and worst it can cause an accident. Clippings can cause a motorcycle to loose control.
I never paid attention to it until I got a roadster a few years ago and came around a curve and clippings were everywhere. My front tire slipped and I was lucky that no car was in the oncoming traffic or I may not have survived it. As it was, I was able to get control back. Now, I dead set against it nd people that think it's a joke, either don't know the dangers it can present or don't care about others.
I never paid attention to it until I got a roadster a few years ago and came around a curve and clippings were everywhere. My front tire slipped and I was lucky that no car was in the oncoming traffic or I may not have survived it. As it was, I was able to get control back. Now, I dead set against it nd people that think it's a joke, either don't know the dangers it can present or don't care about others.
I don’t have a tree in my yard, neighbors about this time every year blow their leaves over on my yard. I just crank up the mower & blow them right back on over.
I have a small ditch and embankment in my front yard at the road so I cut my small front yard forwards & back a strip at a time blowing all my clippings to the ditch and and back out in the yard in front of the house. No grass in the road, on the sidewalks, or against the house that way. A little more time consuming to cut that way but small yard, gets all the missed shards left standing missed on original pass, and leaves all the clippings where they should be anyway, in the yard.
I have a small ditch and embankment in my front yard at the road so I cut my small front yard forwards & back a strip at a time blowing all my clippings to the ditch and and back out in the yard in front of the house. No grass in the road, on the sidewalks, or against the house that way. A little more time consuming to cut that way but small yard, gets all the missed shards left standing missed on original pass, and leaves all the clippings where they should be anyway, in the yard.
TIL that grass clippings on the road can result in tire friction issues, but yeah, I have always blown them back in the yard just for aesthetic reasons I guess.
Lived in a no curb neighborhood where my neighbor would blow his lawn clippings in the street. Guy across from him bitched about it nonstop because the clippings would end up in his yard. We had śhit drainage in the neighborhood and once or twice a year it would get pretty floody. They guy across the street had actually put in some surface drains that helped everyone, but during a particularly heavy downpour, the grass clippings clogged those drains.
The neighbor who never picked up his clippings took the bulk over the flooding over his septic system. The septic backed up and flooded his house. When the guy across the street found out about he had a smile on his face for a year.
The neighbor who never picked up his clippings took the bulk over the flooding over his septic system. The septic backed up and flooded his house. When the guy across the street found out about he had a smile on his face for a year.