I live in a residential area here in PA with what we call “twin” homes (duplex) and single homes all pretty close together on a block. We happen to have an open lot between our home and the next one and the woman who rents that half of the twin has a lawn service to come and cut the grass. She hired a new company this year and he was here at 6:40 AM this morning on a Sunday running his zero turn, commercial blower and commercial weedwacker. Woke us all up with the racket and half the block I’d imagine.

This seems WAAAAY too early for a Sunday in a neighborhood like this. I’m going to contact our borough on Tuesday, but I’m pretty certain I saw somewhere that it’s 7 AM during the week and 8 AM on the weekends where you can’t run equipment like mowers, snowblowers, chainsaws, etc.

Just seems really, really ignorant to do that at that time on a Sunday morning.

I’d be curious to see what people who have done this for a living think? What was your policy Mark123??

I have elderly neighbors and won’t even run my push mower before 0800. I’ll start the lawn at the farm on my Turf Tiger when the sun comes up, but that’s just going to wake up my mother-in-law and she’s already awake by then anyway.

Yeah - 0640 is a bit early in a residential neighborhood IMO. I do think 7/8 week/weekend sounds reasonable.

-Rob

Most towns would have an ordinance relating to time of such work. But even if it was 7am weekday and 8am weekend I’d prefer to not be an ass to my neighbors, Especially on a conjoined unit. Even though where I live it can already be pushing 80s temp that early in the AM and only getting worse during the day

I'd think 7 during the week, 8 during the weekend, that would be the courtesy I'd extend my neighbors. Realistically, I'm not sure you'd see ME doing yard work before 8 no matter what.

I like to do it early because the dew keeps the dust/debris cloud down.

Why wait to call the borough? I just did a search and found the times for lawn equipment use for my city are between 8am and 8pm seven days a week.

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Why wait to call the borough? I just did a search and found the times for lawn equipment use for my city are between 8am and 8pm seven days a week.

Who else am I going to call? No one will be there until Tuesday. I’m sure.

I did text the woman who hired them, I do keep in contact with her and she said she was shocked too, and would call the company and deal with it.

Is it a regular thing or have you had a lot of rain and maybe they’re trying to catchup?

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Originally posted by Paten:
Why wait to call the borough? I just did a search and found the times for lawn equipment use for my city are between 8am and 8pm seven days a week.

Who else am I going to call? No one will be there until Tuesday. I’m sure.

I did text the woman who hired them, I do keep in contact with her and she said she was shocked too, and would call the company and deal with it.

Good, let her talk to the landscaper, maybe she can make it go away without the involvement of the county or whatever you guys call it up there.

My town and most near me have quiet time at 7 AM to 9 PM. No noise ordinance between those hours. I wait until 7 AM at the earliest to start my lawn equipment. If I have other yard work that doesn't need power equipment I do that first (electric string trimmer is first for me most mornings).

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Originally posted by Paten:
Why wait to call the borough? I just did a search and found the times for lawn equipment use for my city are between 8am and 8pm seven days a week.

Who else am I going to call? No one will be there until Tuesday. I’m sure.

I did text the woman who hired them, I do keep in contact with her and she said she was shocked too, and would call the company and deal with it.

Oh. I thought you would be calling for the times of the noise ordnance. You want to call to complain.

There have been times when I’ve mowed earlier due to being backed up but never that early. I’m pretty sure there’s a city ordinance that says 8:30 am but I’ve gone as early as 8:00 to catch up. I never mow on weekends. Before 7:00 am is ridiculous.

I hate to mow at any time on a Sunday but today I had to as it was the only time I had.

I waited to 9:30am to start and I still felt like a heathen. I did hear another mower in the distance though.

In my opinion, none of that crap should be going on before 9am on a Sunday.

I just wish I could get my neighbor to mow his lawn. Anytime would be fine with me. I try to shame him by weedwhacking his driveway that abuts my side lawn, but nope, I think his mantra is 'once a month whether it needs it or not'.

Here, inside the DC beltway, firing up gas-powered equipment before 9:00AM is sure to generate a flurry of indignant phone calls, enough to get a patrol car to "investigate." Hell, in some anti-fossil fuel neighborhoods, it can happen any time of day.

I have not noticed professionals moving over to battery-operated equipment yet, but it seems inevitable. OTOH, I suspect it has lengthened
the average crew travel time and distance to the first job site of the day.

My personal rule for me is 9:00 AM and never on a Sunday. While I am aware modern employment schedules often necessitate performing one's yard work on a Sunday, 6:40 AM is simply inconsiderate.

That's too early! I'd never subject my neighbors to anything before 9, and commercial equipment is louder, quite annoying.

Here the county rule is 700am. No lawn company wants to be hassled. Go talk to them unless they look Bandido bikers.

I saw a commercial lawn guy mowing in my neighborhood around 600am. His mower had lights on it. I thought it was kinda rude but I gave him a pass. In the summer here in Florida it can rain every day and the commercial lawn guys get behind. They can’t cut wet grass or it will ruin the grass. They have to cut when they can.