Does anyone else hate the sound of lawnmowers?

I love the sound of lawn mowers, especially when they wake me up early in the morning or when it's really really hot outside. I always feel so lucky that it's not me out there doing the mowing.

I used to love lying on my sun lounger hearing my neighbour the other side of our high hawthorn hedge mowing his lawn with his push-pull mower. The sound of summer for me.

We're about 300m away from nearest neighbour but what annoys me is his use of chainsaw and all the hammering and banging. It really carries.

I'm taking part in No Mow May...mainly for our bees but the birds are enjoying all the daisy and dandelion heads!

No Mow May at the moment. We're sticking to it. We have hedgehogs and numerous birds in our garden.

Might have to get the back garden done though . It's beginning to turn jungle like and we have all the family round at the end of the month so needs must and all that.

I do think it sad that so many front gardens seem to get paved over these days. Young couple moved in further down our road and they're in the process of lifting the block paving in order to turf which is good news.

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I don't mind the sound of lawn mowers although we have decalared our lawn a 'no mow zone', where we walk in it is kept short naturally and I suggested to OH that we leave the rest to create a wild habitat for insects. OH didn't argue on that ?.
However, I find the sound of strimmers really annoying and the noise created by hedge trimmers sets my teeth on edge......I've seen too many casualties from hedge trimmer accidents ?

Not really, because it goes with the lovely smell of newly cut grass.

The sound of the old fashioned lawn mower being pushed was quite restful but the modern hover thingies and strimmers are irritating. Good thing about electric mowers is that it doesn't take long.

polomint, every weekend (highday and holiday too) there's a depressingly predictable cacophony of machine noise.

Lawnmowers, strimmers, hedgetrimmers and powerwashers (next door use all of them) - drown out the gentle click clack of my push mower and snip snap of my shears - along with the bird song.

I sweep the paths and patio with my lightweight corn broom, while, it seems, a power sweeper is required equipment for others. It creates an impressive cloud of dust.

I despair, I really do!

I’m not annoyed Polomint, but then it’s been too darned cold and wet to sit out in the garden so far!
Petrol mowers I agree can be very noisy but most people seem to use electric mowers and it’s soon over.
I recognise that grass needs cutting when we can - and weekends are an obvious time for those who go out to work.
No, just something “up with which I have to put”.

We hardly ever hear a lawnmower but there are mostly bush blocks here. We have a very small bit of a one at the front but it is only about 30'x10' and doesn't get mowed that often. About 6 inches high . I was thinking I hardly ever sit outside except when we are eating in the evening, just got out of the habit and then there's the mossies..

Given the chance I would love to be able to sit or work in the garden, but this bloomin’ year is so cold that I haven’t been able to do either, well certainly not sit, and only gardening on less windy and wet days.

But being retired I have 7 days a week to sit in peace in the garden, so don’t resent my neighbours cutting their lawn on their days off. But must say the contrast between noisy machines and peace and tranquility is huge.

Wish everyone on my estate would get together and decide a time to mow their lawns. That way all the noise would be over at once and we could enjoy the peace and quiet of the garden.

Doesn't bother me, but someone we know who used to join us on camping trips hated it when the site stewards mowed the grass. She use to say "I'm on holiday I don't want to hear the mower" I pointed out that there was always someone on holiday at the site and she'd moan if the grass was long.

I just think - oh good, here comes the lovely man who mows our weeds and strims the edges, making everything look tidy again even if the rest of the garden needs a good weeding.

I've only been bothered by one lawn mower.

My lovely elderly neighbour would be up at 6.30 am, mowing his lawn, every Saturday for months/years.

He's since passed so I manage a lie-in after 25 years of bright and breezy Saturdays!

No I'm clearly quite a tolerant person, nothing much bothers me.

I find the sound quite soothing, bringing as it does, the sound of people outdoors, pottering around the gareden, going in for a cup of tea when finished. All the sounds of a summer day.

Hand mowers aren’t always quiet either. I remember being woken at 7 on a Saturday morning by the sound of Dad mowing the the grass. Idk what the neighbours thought.

Prefer sound made by lawn mowers to other intrusive noises. However, like redhead56 DH, I too am surprised by how long my neighbour takes mowing their patch. I can start after them and always finish before they do, but for me it’s always a job to hurry up and tick off

Do you also hAte being called love or dear by shop assistants ?

I agree about the leaf blowers - ours roars like a lion. Unnecessarily loud - something for manufacturers to get to grips with.

My friend has just bought a cordless mower, he says it’s very quiet.

Give me a lawn mowers any day they are preferable to screaming out of control children.

Kate54

Don’t mind lawnmowers. Strimmers, on the other hand...

and the worst are leaf blowers!