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[poppabk]

Yard work is awesome. Anything outside is awesome. Wtf is wrong with you people?

I work during the day to earn money so that I can do things more interesting than blowing leaves for the millionth time, or moving several tons of tree trunk from the forest to the ditch. You can still be outside without doing the same old bullshit yardwork you did last week and the week before that and the year before that and the year before that etc etc.

 

[Rockondevil]

I enjoy mowing and occasionally weeding (until it gets overwhelming).

You on the other hand had an adventure OP.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I work during the day to earn money so that I can do things more interesting than blowing leaves for the millionth time, or moving several tons of tree trunk from the forest to the ditch. You can still be outside without doing the same old bullshit yardwork you did last week and the week before that and the year before that and the year before that etc etc.

I guess you can look at it that way. I push pay paper and have meetings all day so yard work to me isn’t a “chore” at all.

Although I’m a hypocrite as I hate weeding…

 

[poppabk]

I guess you can look at it that way. I push pay paper and have meetings all day so yard work to me isn’t a “chore” at all.

Although I’m a hypocrite as I hate weeding…

It might also be the scale, I have about 1 acre of cleared land, mainly lawn and the house/driveway then another 3 acres of dense woods with 100 ft+ trees. Even though the woods are mainly left to fend for themselves they still dump tons of leaves from October all the way through till March. Then you have to deal with getting lawn to grow in shitty VA red clay - lime, seeding, fertilizing, pesticides, herbicides, aerating, mowing, patch repair. Then you have the maintenance of your chainsaw, your mower, your blowers, your weedwacker, your pole chainsaw. Then you have falling branches, fallen trees, acorns (fuck acorns, seriously). Then there is the pruning, the mulching, the weeding. And that is before you even take into account outside upkeep, the painting, the staining, replacing boards, wasp nests, carpenter bees. It's just no fun dealing with that much shit for 20 years.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I dont mind yard work either. Even shoveling the snow isnt so bad unless it's giant heavy snow. As for yard work, I don't mind mowing. Only crappy chore is if you end up raking/bagging leaves in sloppy wet weather where you cant wait anymore and got burned with shit weather doing it.

I like washing my car in my driveway too in the summer. I shouldnt do it in the afternoon sun, but too lazy to do it in the morning when it's cooler. So despite blazing sun, I like it. Its great too since in the summer the neighbours are out and you can chit chat.

 

[6502]

Sorry to hear you are stumped.

 

[8bitpill]

Bought a house just shy of two years ago now. I actually enjoy yard work but get where something like handling the removal of a tree can be rough. Honestly any work along the lines of something as big as a tree I will just call a company and have them handle it.

Other things like building a fence or handling pavers, I'm all about. You just have to space it out and not try to tackle it all at once (in a day or two).

Last summer I laid pavers for a shed we bought and it was all handled within about three and a half weeks here and there. I own and run a print shop plus like to make sure I'm making time for my wife and daughter as well.

After it I said I wasn't a fan but honestly I'm going to go back at it this summer with laying pavers under our porch for a walk way.

As for mowing, we have a big yard and the first summer I had a push mower and released I just need to by a riding on mower and it made a world of different and cut it down from a hour plus of mowing to about twenty minutes.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

Yeah trees are a bitch. There is a science to falling a tree, when you do your cut out (like a piece of pie) that’s the direction the tree is going to fall, always do the cut out in the direction you want the tree to fall. You can make them actually fall uphill with that technique.
But on the subject of yard work I LOVE IT, I have 3 acres I have to take care of. I just get baked all day while tending my land.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Cutting down trees is awesome. You then get to burn the mother fucker.

 

[Darth_Ghandi]

grew up in a big house with a huge garden.
Nothing can make me want to buy a house.
I unwind with a spliff and some Kirby.

 

[n0razi]

You should buy a home. The equity is worth it.

Nah, I tried it for 8 years and hated it... Although I did flip it for a cool 100% profit

 

[Halo is Back]

fall season is precisely the reason why I don't want a bunch of fucking trees in my yard.

 

[Halo is Back]

Yard work is awesome. Anything outside is awesome. Wtf is wrong with you people?

I've never known a man who legitimately likes doing yard maintenance

 

[AJUMP23]

Nah, I tried it for 8 years and hated it... Although I did flip it for a cool 100% profit

Take that profit, buy another house. Flip it again.

 

[n0razi]

Take that profit, buy another house. Flip it again.

Nah, I'm good... there's much easier/faster ways to make money

 

[AJUMP23]

Nah, I'm good... there's much easier/faster ways to make money

Don’t trade options.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Best part of mowing and trimming the lawn is when you're done at the end of a hot summer day...

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Best part of mowing and trimming the lawn is when you're done at the end of a hot summer day...

I used to do this shit professionally. Takes me about 25 mins to do 3 lawns on our property and another 15 to sculpt, I mean, edge the remainder.
Shit looks so ca$h(lols) I am always proud of my work.

Have to clear out a plot within the next month or so, cause I want to get it rich in nutrients and throw down some hearty vegetables and some top shelf.

 

[p_xavier]

I've never known a man who legitimately likes doing yard maintenance

I like it. Makes me forget about my existential dread. Next week I took time off work just for Spring yard work and I'm excited about it.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Soon to come, washing my car on the driveway. Not yet. Still a little cool and rainy.

Spending half hour or so washing the car (inside and out), blasting some music with cold drinks is hard to beat in good weather.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

I used to do this shit professionally. Takes me about 25 mins to do 3 lawns on our property and another 15 to sculpt, I mean, edge the remainder.
Shit looks so ca$h(lols) I am always proud of my work.

Have to clear out a plot within the next month or so, cause I want to get it rich in nutrients and throw down some hearty vegetables and some top shelf.

Nice, having all the right gear and experience makes such a difference. I built a garden shed and slowly been stocking it for a few years with the right tools. I'm real sick of cheap shit tools and building a decent set for our new setup. I'm getting a greener thumb as we go, misses is basically allergic to yard work and kills it inside for house stuff so it's on me. I know the basics of looking after the equipment and getting my specific yard (front and back) done in about 1-1.5 hours, that's just the lawns, edging and sweeping clean up. It's fairly uneven at the moment so it's a bit of a pain and my son and I have to move the trampoline around so I can mow under it. I agree with the look and feel of a solid days work in the yard. You get to enjoy it for a week or two as do my kids/friends. You reminded me I have to move or remove two raised veggie garden beds too, easy enough but want to keep them. There is nothing like grabbing food from your own backyard.

Between now and end of year I've got to demo and rebuild about 22m of boundary fencing; going for 7-8 foot high fences. Also need to add some retaining walls and more drainage for the front and back yard, about 4m out front and 13m out back. While also doing a trial build for a pizza oven next year. Front yard needs a water feature e.g. KOI pond with waterfall. Also need to do a levelling and basic paving for the new spot for our trampoline. Backyard will have full landscaping next year after pool and decking by professionals but I'm already potting and growing a bunch of plants from our design so they're more mature when I put them in the ground. Things like clumping bamboo, elephant palms, dwarf date palm, wine palm, bungalow palm etc. Sort of a Balinese/Japanese styling so it has that sort of resort feel for our new backyard.

The best thing is sometime when all said and done next year I should have far more time to enjoy and take pride in over the maintenance work as the areas will mostly be covered with pool paving, decking, water feature etc. So as long as we execute it pretty well then I'll be happy with less to do. I already have all the plumbing, electrical and gas lines for things needed e.g. lighting and outdoors speakers etc. Just have to get into whether I do a sprinkler system as well, obviously far easier up front while it all gets excavated before the build work. I was thinking of having the pool guys/pool equipment run all the sprinklers as well. Got a nice spot down the back near the garden shed to have all that equipment tucked away from view and centralised.

 

[SirTerry-T]

Man oh man has my day sucked. I had the task to remove a tree from the yard... I figured what the hell, I will just buy a saw and do it myself. How hard can it be?


Hard. Harder than everything I think I have ever done. First of all, I now understand why Tree surgeons exist and why they are fucking expensive. It took me damn near 14 hours before I gave in to defeat and downed (broken) tools.

When I finally got the motherfucker to fall, it fell the wrong damn way and nearly killed my stupid ass. Next, I realized the roots wouldn't come up when the tree fell, so I now have a horrible stump sticking up out of the ground and cant dig far down enough to get to the damn roots without destroying my spade. Not only that, the tree itself is heavy as fuck and now all my tools are blunted, I need to figure out how I break it up without burning another day. Burning, now that's an idea.

I should have just paid the £750 to have it done for me and not been a stubborn motherfucker. Pretty sure I have fractured my index finger as well trying to catch and push the falling tree the way I wanted it to fall.

Troll me gaf. I deserve it today.

Your using pounds ..it's "arse" son.
I was expecting a "Y'all“ half way through.

 

[Mattyp]

I've never known a man who legitimately likes doing yard maintenance

Come to Australia. Or meet some real men I guess.

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[DeepBreath87]

Yard work isn’t so bad if the weather isn’t bad and I have the right mindset. I push-mow my yard, which is fairly large, but I like the exercise when it isn’t 95 degrees with humidity (I’m in the Northeast US). I like messing with my flower beds and mulching on nice days.

The big thing is not feeling rushed and not feeling like there are other things you need to be doing. If you can take your time and enjoy being outside, yard work isn’t too bad.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Nice, having all the right gear and experience makes such a difference. I built a garden shed and slowly been stocking it for a few years with the right tools. I'm real sick of cheap shit tools and building a decent set for our new setup. I'm getting a greener thumb as we go, misses is basically allergic to yard work and kills it inside for house stuff so it's on me. I know the basics of looking after the equipment and getting my specific yard (front and back) done in about 1-1.5 hours, that's just the lawns, edging and sweeping clean up. It's fairly uneven at the moment so it's a bit of a pain and my son and I have to move the trampoline around so I can mow under it. I agree with the look and feel of a solid days work in the yard. You get to enjoy it for a week or two as do my kids/friends. You reminded me I have to move or remove two raised veggie garden beds too, easy enough but want to keep them. There is nothing like grabbing food from your own backyard.

Between now and end of year I've got to demo and rebuild about 22m of boundary fencing; going for 7-8 foot high fences. Also need to add some retaining walls and more drainage for the front and back yard, about 4m out front and 13m out back. While also doing a trial build for a pizza oven next year. Front yard needs a water feature e.g. KOI pond with waterfall. Also need to do a levelling and basic paving for the new spot for our trampoline. Backyard will have full landscaping next year after pool and decking by professionals but I'm already potting and growing a bunch of plants from our design so they're more mature when I put them in the ground. Things like clumping bamboo, elephant palms, dwarf date palm, wine palm, bungalow palm etc. Sort of a Balinese/Japanese styling so it has that sort of resort feel for our new backyard.

The best thing is sometime when all said and done next year I should have far more time to enjoy and take pride in over the maintenance work as the areas will mostly be covered with pool paving, decking, water feature etc. So as long as we execute it pretty well then I'll be happy with less to do. I already have all the plumbing, electrical and gas lines for things needed e.g. lighting and outdoors speakers etc. Just have to get into whether I do a sprinkler system as well, obviously far easier up front while it all gets excavated before the build work. I was thinking of having the pool guys/pool equipment run all the sprinklers as well. Got a nice spot down the back near the garden shed to have all that equipment tucked away from view and centralised.

That's quite the project, but you sound ready and willing to get the job done. When you have that paired with focus, the results will speak for themselves.
There is nothing like standing in front of your work, satisfied. Everything is as you envisioned and looks clean. I love that feeling. My folks always praising me, too. So, that is also a motivator. I'll try to get pictures on here, later on, when things have progressed, but I do get busy and may even forget.

 

[Sakura]

How big was the tree and what tools were you using? It couldn't have been that big if you tried to catch it when it was falling. 14 hours seems crazy to me, but what do I know.

 

[AJUMP23]

If you need some good power tools for yard work, I like this brand.

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I have the weed eater, Trimmer, Blower and the Chain Saw....yes a battery powered chain saw that does great work.

 

[RoadHazard]

Solution: Don't have a yard. Works great for me!

 

[DGrayson]

Someone told me about a method to kill stumps. Drill holes in them and fill them with salt. I guess it takes a while but works. I would say google for specifics.

 

[Fools idol]

my wife announced today that she has put deposit down on an veggie patch at our local allotment, £100 for the year. Something tells me I'm going to be roped in to help with a bunch more of this shit over coming months.

welp.

 

[Amory]

I kind of enjoy basic yardwork. Mowing the lawn, weeding, etc. It's time to myself, I'm outside, that's already pretty good.

That said, I wouldn't try to remove a tree on my own lol

 

[TylerD]

I don't really like it mainly because of how much I sweat while doing it most of the year but I enjoy the satisfaction of looking at my yard after I mow, edge, and weed and the role I play in making my little plot of land look pretty damn nice. I haven't had to mow a lot this year, rain has been sparse and if mother nature doesn't want my yard to be green, it won't be. I do water my plants to keep them vibrant though.

 

[WhatDidHeSay?]

I have this massive tree right up against my house that drops crap all over my car that i really want of get rid of. Dreading paying the money or trying to remove it without damaging the roof.

Yeah that shit stains badly. I think it's the sap but it's an horrible mess

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Yard work is for peasants.

CONDO LIFE.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Just mowed the lawn earlier this week when it was hot. Didnt mind it at all..... although my backyard gets damn weedy. That Weed B Gon shit does nothing. Weeds come back weeks later.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Garden. It's called a bloody garden. A yard is a unit of measurement!

lol okay there mate

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

Yeah, that’s why I don’t do it anymore. We pay some landscapers to take care of it. Money is tight, but that shit sucks.

 

[jshackles]

I live in a part of the country where it's more or less constantly raining, which, in the spring, means that the grass grows so much that you need to mow it ever 3-5 days to keep it from looking like a jungle. But we also go weeks sometimes without a dry day.

So springs / summers like this one, it usually means cutting wet grass in the rain. Lots of people in my office take off work if there are ever a few hours of dry weather, so they can mow their lawns.