The @#%$# landscaping service for our apartment complex chopped up the extension cord running to my trailer yesterday!
Gee, it's kinda like BRIGHT YELLOW and there is no way to miss it, so it was probably done on purpose (too lazy to get off the tractor and move it). But of course, if confronted, his excuse would be he "didn't see it".
Does anyone know of any kind of visibility gadget (flags, bright plastic strips, etc) that can be attatched to the cord in order to make the "I didn't see it" excuse absolutely incomprehendable?
Paul (Mouse)
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The only thing that MIGHT make their lazy as#es pay attention is if you drove 5/8" rebar spikes into the ground a few spots along the path of the cord. Paint them flourescent orange and leave them sticking up about two feet. You could attach the extension cord to the top of the rebar. Make them cut around it.
Or better yet--don't paint them at all. Leave them 4 to 5 inches out of the ground. This might permanently stop a mower blade if they run over the cord again. Then play stupid.
I'd contact the lawn service for a refund. Accident or not they are responsible for damaging your property.
Heh, heh, all great ideas (especially the rebar!), but keep in mind that I live in an apartment complex and have to keep the peace with the landlord.
Since it is a public area, the cones would be taken in about five minutes by local kids (er hoodlums) and rebar could cause serious injury (to those same hoodlums). The landlord would get upset if I started digging to bury pipe. I've got to keep it simple.
Just need something highly visible but non-destructive to attach to the cord itself. If it gets cut again, I'll just start taking the landscaper to smalll claims court every week. The county pays me for my court time, he looses money for his court time. I think he'll get the hint real fast.
bright yellow cord laying on green grass, and you want it to be more visible? How about tying some yellow caution tape into bows around it say every 2-3 feet. pretty inexpensive at Home Depot.
robatthelake wrote: ...or remove the Cord on Mowing day!
I think that's the best bet. I changed the program on my sprinkler system after my paper kept getting soaked despite repeatedly asking the delivery service to place it on my porch rather than the sidewalk.
It is nearly an impossible task to find a solution to prevent other people's stupidity. Just as you think you figured it out here comes another moron.
Living in an apartment complex might be a tough one.
Get some steel cable and tape it along the extension cord. I think that 1/4" should stop a mower. It will also make it heavier and may not get caught in the blade at all. It will also make it harder to steal.
I'm ready to k*ll my neighbors landscaping monkeys as they hit my fence and knock it over every freakin time they mow his lawn.
Joe, let me tell you a story my dad told me of the old days in Nebraska
One of his neighbors there used to hire the thrashing done each year when it was time to harvest the wheat You see, they did not have Combines back then (A Combine vehicle combines a cutter with a Thrasher) and Threshing machines are expensive so there were usually only a few and the owners hired 'em out to the farms around.
Well, the machine's owner, would make it into the farmer's wheat field each year no problems.. But on his way out he clipped the gate post and broke it off.. The first year the farmer figured it was an accident and would not happen again.
The second time the farmer was not so sure.. But was willing to give the guy the benefit of the doubt
The third year the farmer was sure it was intentional
The 4 the year when the thresher hit the post... it did not break, instead it put a nice "V" shap in the machine and the thing was out of service for 2 weeks, in the height of the thrashing season costing the owner hundreds of dollars (Back when a dollar was worth a bit more than the 10 cents it's worth today)
The Thresher ask the farmer what he'd done.
"Well... I put in an O'Sage post"
What did you do that for?
"The other ones kept breaking off"
The next year... He missed the post both coming and going.
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business John is Near Kenwood TS-2000 housed in a 2005 Damon Intruder 377
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