Is it rude of my neighbor to fire up his snowblower at 5:45 am?

canuckster wrote:

I say getting to work trumps your sleep in.

I often leave for work before 6 and don't get home until 10 or 11 pm. I have to shovel my walk and driveway before I go, or the snow will impede pedestrians and my wife's car (I don't drive).

I don't use a snowblower, but I wouldn't be down on someone that did - not everyone is as fit as we are!

Classic. Maybe if you drove you could leave at 8 and get home by 6...

There's plenty of hot chicks in my neighborhood....many of whom are not married. The fact that your wife may be hot is of little import to me. That's not an inducement to have you as a neighbor.

In fact, the only justice in this story is if your neighbor sells his house to a large family...I'm thinking a bunch of hill billies who won the lottery and decided to get out of the trailer park and call your subdivision home. They would park their monster trucks in the driveway, get a bunch of wild, barking dogs, and have their redneck friends and family over on the weekends for big parties in the back yard. They would let the house go to hell, and put a sleeper sofa on the front porch.

Those white pines would go unkempt, and the mushrooms that are such a pain in your ass would spread onto your lawn because Bubba would be too busy watching Maury to chop them up. And all those leaves from the ornamental pear trees....yeah...they're blowing onto your yard to rake and mulch. I'm thinking that after a few years of these clowns, a neighbor clearing the snow early in the morning might be a welcome relief.

Your life must suck.

Short answer: NO. He is getting up early to do this before leaving for work. He is responsible. He is cleaning his driveway like a good neighbor and responsible spouse and father for his family.

He probably takes good care of his lawn and does not have broken-down cars in his yard.

He probably gets laid quite often, and is more than likely hated by wimps that sleep in and can't satisfy their woman.

You should aspire to be more like him.

Francis L wrote:

Classic. Maybe if you drove you could leave at 8 and get home by 6...

Some days it would be nice. But given my hours I usually run in instead - the only time to get some miles.

I think the OP knew this would be a polarizing subject and just keeps giving many of you more information. You then take that information and think your are clevely ticking him off. I believe what you feel are your chains being thoroughly and collectively yanked.

Here is how I see it wrote:

I think the OP knew this would be a polarizing subject and just keeps giving many of you more information. You then take that information and think your are clevely ticking him off. I believe what you feel are your chains being thoroughly and collectively yanked.

Wow...you're a quick one, nothing must get by you.

Here is how I see it wrote:

I think the OP knew this would be a polarizing subject and just keeps giving many of you more information. You then take that information and think your are clevely ticking him off. I believe what you feel are your chains being thoroughly and collectively yanked.

Wow...you're a quick one, nothing must get by you.

What a bunch of insensitive f*** head answers there are on this thread; most communities have a no loud mechanical or construction equipment before 7AM ordinance...if is very standard.

Check your local ordinances.

Uhm, YEAH, your neighbor is a rude tool, like how many people are up before 6AM. Fewer rather than more.

It is not that complicated, people.

I was snowblowing at 7am yesterday morning and it made me think of this thread. It wasn't like I was doing it for the enjoyment, I needed to be able to get out of my driveway. What am I supposed to do, postpone going to work until it's a better time for my neighbors? I often work nights and they don't have any qualms about mowing their lawns while I'm trying to sleep during the day. It's a drawback of having neighbors that you either have to accept, or move to a rural area.

Je ne comprends pas

Après la légion je ne peux jamais dormir devant 6am

I own a snow removal company. No plow, just blowers and shovels. On days I want to start early, I try and start the first house at 7am. There isnt any ordinances, but its an unwritten socially acceptable rule that contractors, (snow/lawn) dont start before 7am. I do think I wake people up, but no one has ever complained.

Plister Mow wrote:

I own a snow removal company. No plow, just blowers and shovels. On days I want to start early, I try and start the first house at 7am. There isnt any ordinances, but its an unwritten socially acceptable rule that contractors, (snow/lawn) dont start before 7am. I do think I wake people up, but no one has ever complained.

Very considerate of you; in some communities it is an ordinance.

Snowblowing at 7AM in order to get to work is understandable... IT does suck for those that sleep later, but it is at least understandable and where it is a law in ordinance...those who sleep late can not like it, but understand it is needed.

please, advertise elsewhere...

this isn't snowblowerspastsevenamRus.com

Tuffy wrote:

Motorcyles are loud too. I suppose you want them banned between 7pm 7am?

YES!!! I hate people who rev their loud (think Harley) motorcycles on residential streets at 2am in the morning... Especially in the summer when most of the neighborhood is sleeping with windows open.

DougC wrote:

Tuffy wrote:

Motorcyles are loud too. I suppose you want them banned between 7pm 7am?

YES!!! I hate people who rev their loud (think Harley) motorcycles on residential streets at 2am in the morning... Especially in the summer when most of the neighborhood is sleeping with windows open.

Doug C, this is for you:

BUMP

Some guy on my block ran his snow blower at 4 AM. I don't really mind since I'm wide awake drinking and playing NES emulators but I was shocked that he would run it that early.

Hey guys,

I'm back and this time my neighbor woke up my hot wife at 5:30AM again. I tried talking with him about this last winter and I honestly thought this was resolved. It had compiled 2" and he was out there cranking his snow blower!

I mean come on. I cut him slack last winter but this is it. I mean at least wait until you get a little more snow so you don't have to constantly re-blow. I mean I'm just about to leave for work and he is out there again blowing 1/8" of snow!

Anyways I'm not too upset but what should I do LR?

Throw the snow back on the driveway.