I'd ignore it unless it becomes habitual. The way its been raining lately, it gets done when I have time to squeeze it in. Some days it's early, some days it's late, some days it's while I'm getting rained on trying to get it in before it pours.

My neighborhood has people mowing at all hours the last month, because the windows to mow have been short and infrequent.

Most all of my neighbors have landscapers do there yard work.
Its usually a 6 day work week and a start time of 9am.
That does change depending on time of year and weather conditions.

My township noise ordinance ends at 7am Monday thru Saturday, Sunday ends at 8am.

I'd say that any time after 7 a.m. is fair game. Some people are smart enough to mow in the early morning before it gets too hot.

It’s here too. The subdivision is late 70’s through early 80’s so the houses are pretty well spaced, especially compared to these bullshit zero spacing new builds. Sat morning, every got damn week, a commercial guy does the neighbor across the street’s yard at 7am. From there it’s the bane of my existence, all fucking day. One neighbor after the next, mowers, blowers, weed eaters, edgers, running from 7am to 4 or 5pm. ALL FUCKING DAY! I have a pool and God help the people who buy this place from me when I’m ready to sell it. They’ll be thinking Sat pool parties and such, and they are gonna find out the hard way to chalk it. It’s DOA. Unless you want to hear this shit for 9 hours straight. I mow on Sunday evening or Wednesday evening the last 30 minutes of light before dusk. I try to be quick, efficient, and hammer it quickly so I’m not being like everyone else around here.

This is in my top 10 reasons to move to my rural land. I’ve had it.

I have inconveniences living in the boonies, but this isn't one of them. Thank all of you for reminding me of my blessings.

If you need headlights on your mower to see the lawn, it's too early.

Screw all my neighbors except one.I don't mow my lawn early because it's wet.
But every neighbor has a dog, or right behind me 5 dogs. Non stop barking almost all day.
They don't care. When I had my Shelby she would run the fence and bark for two or three minutes then calm down.
LOL, A dog about four houses away will see me and bark,bark,bark, monotonous non stop for hours. I give up.
Live and let live.

In town, that’s just rude. Were I in that situation, I’d want to know what the local rules are, but my preference would be to work it out with the neighbor without involving the whatever the local government is (other than perhaps researching the rules). It sounds like your neighbor is already on top of it.

As I’ve grown older, I’ve learned that (for me at least) taking an approach along the lines of, “I’ve got a problem(/challenge/whatever the heck term you want to use) and I hope that you can help me with it.” seems to work better than some other approaches.

Personally, I think we have way the heck too much government, and that much of that comes from folks wanting “big brother” to fix whatever issue they may have with their neighbor, rather than just trying to talk with the other party and figure it out between the two of them. Maybe that’s just me though…

ETA: Here on the ranch, in a canyon, where no neighbors can hear me and they likely can’t hear me in the house, I’ll mow whatever I need to mow whenever I need to mow it. That’s different those, as it doesn’t affect anybody else.

I called the church here and asked them to wait till after nine a.m. to mow the cemetery next door.

They thought that was reasonable. That was seven years ago.

My neighborhood has a bunch of seasonal people that just come just for the summer or a lot of them just on weekends… they like to party which I’m good with and don’t bitch when they are having fun or music is just a bit loud. I’m an early riser so I say fuck em, if I’m up you’re up. I have no problem pressure washing or mowing at 7 am if they were noisy the night before.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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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.

Your local government, town/city or county, should have an online searchable ordinance unless they're really in the dark ages.

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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.

Interesting enough, battery powered lawn equipment isn't silent, the whirring blades generate quite a bit of sound, neighbor has the Ego Zero Turn, I can hear it running across the street in the house, even with the Ego Push Mower.

I live on Golf course, they are out there at 6 am running equipment to get it ready for the day, part of the deal for living on a course.

I called my borough today and asked and they don't have a specific noise ordinance/quiet hours for this type thing with power equipment. Only for barking dogs.

So unless the woman who hired him told him to knock it off, I guess I'm stuck having this jackwagon show up any time he pleases.

Anything before 8am is way to early.

Time to attend a town meeting and propose one?

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Time to attend a town meeting and propose one?

My thought as well, or contact the city manager and see what channels need to be greased to get it done, perhaps a petition from your neighbors as well if he doesn't stop the early am mowing.

I think we can all agree that 3:45 AM is off the table.

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Originally posted by 6guns:
Time to attend a town meeting and propose one?

Sounds like a plan!