How many mowers for one small park?

*mown* Can’t we deal with our own dirty lawn-dry?

hahaha….

Yep. you too.

Now wait just one mow-ment ….

To the miscreants, Offal Thread. Now.

AngryHenry said :

It’s the Mowernats!

Show us ya clips!

That’s a cut above the rest.

Yes, AngryHenry, not bad at all.

AngryHenry said :

It’s the Mowernats!
Show us ya clips!

Very funny !

that’s the “army of men with lawnmowers, blower things, all manner of machinery to maintain the grass, fountains, gardens and PETUNIAS,” not the trees in the power lines…..

maybe we should ask Qbn if we can borrow some of them – my part of belco needs a makeover

Qbn has an army of men with lawnmowers, blower things, all manner of machinery to maintain the grass, fountains, gardens and PETUNIAS, you name it. Lately they’ve been re-paving the footpaths in the main street, and have carefully planted new trees there too. Although what’s going to happen with the trees grow up and hit the overhead shop awnings, I’m not sure.

It’s the Mowernats!

Show us ya clips!

Many hands makes light work.

One would assume that 5 people doing one job would take 5 times less than one peson doing that same job.

So the overheads are the same, just distributed over 5 people instead of just one.

…Two men went to mow, went to mow a meadow…

Several men mow a lawn. More news at six.

It’s like that Vanilla Ice song … rollin, in a five joint mow.

I must say that I was impressed by the mower driver (rider?) in the week before Chrismas with his Santa suit on. He got quite a few waves of appreciation. I saw him around the Woden cemetery, and it just sort of looked right.

Around inner Belconnen I see them very quickly cover over graffiti whenever it appears (although there are a few spots where they don’t notice / ignore it. Also grass cutting, tree trimming, and street sweeping is pretty damn good & regular.

They were doing the same in O’connor and Turner before Xmas, admittedly on a much larger grass area.

In fact, the guy mowing alongside the bike path was more observant that most pedestrians! Despite a big diesel engine rumbling away, all the inherent noise of a massive mower, and the fact he was concentrating on not running over stuff or driving into the storm water drain, he STILL managed to notice cyclists coming from all directions, moved off the path and throttled down the engine as you went past. The guy deserves a bonus!

I’d imagine that because these mowers generally operate in fleets when mowing large nature.median strips, it was quicker and easier for them to knock over the park on the way to a bigger job?!

what local crews? hard pressed to see local crews – Sapphire Coast seems to have the tree pruning market locked dowm, road repair crews seem contracted from out of state, footpaths are a mess of cracked and distorted sections aching for a personal injury claim or covered in botanical or ‘geological’ debris – we used to have district parks and gardens depots but outsourcing seems to have become the governing mantra and standards are crappy.

The local govt’ services crews are awesome in Canberra. It’s like a ground force decending on an area and thoroughly tidying it all up. Once I saw about 6 guys with leaf blower/vacs operating in the same small part of city walk. Compared to other australian cities where you struggle to see one government maintenance guy, the parks look like shit and highly public grafiti stays around for weeks.

It would look quite graceful I think, really!

: )

Put them in HiVis mankini’s, pink earmuffs and nose plugs and have them mow to some easy listening tunes. I think you’re onto something there granny.

Allow me…

They see me rollin’ they hatin’

Synchronised mowing! Now there’s a potential new Olympic sport for you ….

Maybe they have separation issues and don’t like to be apart. ‘Togetherness’ might be a clause in their certified agreement, combating feelings of isolation and abandonment. They might just need a group hug every now and again.

Or they’re light on for work and want to get to Edgar’s by opening.