as197 wrote: I think you need to seriously rethink your gripe. Its public property, you DON'T own the lawn area. From my viewpoint, you are darn lucky the landlord has not removed your cord for you, permanently. I think you need to treat it like trash day. Pick it up yourself when its mowing day.
Start a war with the landscapers and the property owners and you WILL lose. You almost lost the right to park your trailer there once, why risk it now over something petty, especially when you have no right to be doing what you are doing with the cord to begin with.
as197 wrote:
gunny357 wrote: Wrap the cord with chain. One encounter with chain and the resultant repair will strongly encourage the mower operator to avoid cords in the future.
1/8" stainless steel aircraft cable attached to your cord would also be something a mower operator would only want to deal with once.
Light nylon rope, a lot of it entangled in a mower deck will also make a point.
You do realize what you suggest is bordering on criminal neglience right????
How does getting evicted after doing the things you suggest do for making a point?
Hmm, interesting contradiction. It's okay for the landscaper to destroy my property with no consequence, but anything I do to that might damage HIS property is criminal negligence?
I also don't own the parking lot, that is also "common area" (the complex is not "public" it is private property). If the landscaper runs his mower into my truck and does damage, is that also my problem and not his responsibility?
I'm sorry, but that cord has been out there for six years, they have always moved it (along with lawn chairs, toys, barbaques, etc). It is an apartment complex, moving stuph is part of completing the contract, period. Tenants ARE allowed to make use of the common areas. It appears they may have hired some bozo employee that just doesn't give a krap.
Also, there is no "lawn day" in a 900 unit complex. They come around pretty much randomly. Even if it's not their job to remove or mow around obstacles, it is still AGAINST THE LAW for them to destroy them. They must set a day and inform tenants that these items must be removed on that day. They are LEGALLY LIABLE for the damage to my property, period the end.
However, in the end you are correct. With the past issues between the landlord and parking my trailer, I just have to bend over and take it like a man.
One of the Home Depot employees suggested taking wire coat hanger, cutting it into "U" shaped pieces and staking the cord to the ground. This would keep it below the blades and prevent it from being sucked up.
The frustrating part is that the cord only crossed about 6 feet of grass area, it's not like it's run across an acre of front lawn. Most of the run is along the bottom of the parking lot curb so people won't trip on it. I have made every effort so that it has minimal impact on anyone. Silly me that I would expect even a trickle of effort in return.
Paul (Mouse)
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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.
John,
I like that. A LOT. I have some stories, good ones. But I won't share them here, for obvious reasons, that's for sure.
Why not just go over head with it? If you are backed in to the spot you could run the power cord up the side of the rear ladder and attach it at the top with a zip tie. Span the distance (unknown). Then at the other end zip tie it to a balcony, drain pipe, etc. and drop it down to the plug in.
Mousefart wrote: 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?
Outside of the shock hazard what did you want him/her to do, un hook it, roll it up and then put it back down. I doubt that is a condition of their landscaping/mowing contract. It wasn't on your property so to speak and therefore unless the apartments allow this maybe he/she thought they could run over it w/o any problems. I've done that to garden hoses with a lawn mower w/o issues so I seem to think what he/she tried to do might have made sense.
It does suck, but I'm not so sure doing what you are asking will prevent future problems and might even make things worse.
Larry
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