Any color you want your car (Tuesday, 15 August 2006)
By BetaWolfinVA
(as long as its green)
being that i am finally getting an office job soon enough (9/3/2006), i
and finally doing this labor job the way i've wanted all along, and it
is getting noticed... (i pity the guys that stay here after i leave though,
because they will be stuck taking up the slack... but ... it ... is ...
part ... of ... our ... job)
the grass has been left to grow tall around the edges of the curbs, and
the grass only gets cut inside the curb, what this does is leave many areas
in which you don't see the curb, only the grass on either side of the curb,
heck, in some locations the grass outside the curb is taller than the grass
inside the curb.... and its driving me nutz
well, when i get dispatched to a location what i have been doing lately
is buzzing (or "burning") the grass down to the concrete and knocking the
detritus of years out away from the curb so i could effectively attack
it with a blower...
while most people appreciate it (to the point of moving their cars to facilitate
the endeavor), some others complain when rocks fall half the way to their
cars... as if the federal government doesn't have a policy about paying
for any damage that a vehicle suffers as the result of a federal government
employee or contractors performance of his duties...
and the crass comment of "there is a lot of money out here" makes me want
to respond... "yeah, too bad you wasted all that money on Cars"
every one, if you see someone cutting grass, be it government employee,
state employee, contractor, or even a home owner... give them the space
necessary to cut grass, and remember the safety zone of 50 feet for weed
eaters and 150 feet for tractors with metal blades... and most important...
if you know that an area is going to be cut, Park as far away from the
grass in your parking space as possible... better yet, don't park next
to grass at all...
and, remember if the Grass cutter is going to feel bad about damaging vehicles
and property...
understand that the grass cutter with feel even worse if you get hit by
something...
While the experienced grass cutter will be able to cut so most grass and
debris goes in a certain direction, there will always be grass and rocks
that fly elsewhere... including straight up...
if a grass cutter is cutting next to a side walk... go around the grass
cutter on the RIGHT had side, with as much clearance as you can manage...
especially if you are approaching from opposite the direction that the
grass cutter can see.,..
generally, the safe side is towards the Right hand side of the weed eater...
this is because the cutting head rotates in a counter clockwise motion...
generally you will see a grass cutter using the weed eater at a bit of
an angle when cutting the grass overhang on a sidewalk... what this does
is allow the grass to be cut down to the level of the side walk and the
grass beside the sidewalk to have enough height to blend into the grass
cut by the tractors... this also has the advantage of shooting the debris
out to the left... often "at speed"