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"

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Copyright Tuesday, 15 August 2006 HHMCameron
Published on Sunday, December 28, 2014.     Filed under: "Reflective" and "Poetry"
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