All set everybody! Thanks!
 

All set everybody! Thanks!

Do you have any neighbors that do their own lawn work?

Not that i know of.

Yu need to just break down and buy one if you are going to be maintaining your own lawn. You can hire these guys around here for much less than 100 a month. Why bother?

Its only a one time thing. For the leaves. We have a service already but they only do a quick job.

Mower
 

Could buy a rake?

Yes! But im not entirely sure they make special rakes that can pick up these tiny oak leaves they have here! They would probably just sneak through the tines! 😀

Pelonius said it best~
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

Push mower
 

Hello, were you able to get a push mower to use? Not sure where you live in the villages, but we have a push mower with a bag.
My name is Toni D

Try a Shop Vac
 

A push mower only gets about a third of the leaves. A shop vac would get more like 95% and it would also come in handy once a year to suck out your AC drain line.

Push mower to borrow
 

I have one I'd be happy to let you use and a pickup I can bring it over anytime. Call me.
Bill
9892840220

Yes
 

Yes. My husband has everything 🙄

When I received the email this morning with the Talk of The Villages hot topics from yesterday and saw the reference to this post, I thought: what could possibly go wrong with this simple request?

The first and ONLY response that I expected to see from “America’s friendliest hometown“ was for someone to say: “sure, come on over and pick it up. It’s available anytime you want it.“ However, when I clicked on the link to the thread, the responses were pretty much everything except what the poor OP requested.

Responses like: “Buy a rake.” The OP asked to borrow a lawnmower, not a rake. Give the guy a little credit for having some common sense, and knowing what tool he needed (or preferred) to perform the task at hand.

“Don’t any of your neighbors do their own yard work?” Well I guess I’m jumping to a few conclusions here, but if I already knew that I had a neighbor that did their own yard work common sense would dictate that I would’ve asked them to borrow their lawnmower before posting a request here.

Geez! Cut the guy break. Rather than offering to help the guy out, people instead respond with glib or curt remarks. It seems to me that there are a bunch of people on this forum who somehow feel the need to post foolish responses to certain threads despite the fact that their tripe adds nothing beneficial to the conversation, or subject at hand. I don’t know if they’re trying to be funny, or they just get some level of satisfaction from picking apart someone else’s simple request. Maybe it’s just to run up the thread counter so they can reach that next great forum level. Or, perhaps it’s because they’re all a bunch of old people who don’t have much of a life anymore, friends, activities, etc. so they’re relegated to spend their final days, months, years on this planet in front of a computer all day playing “keyboard warrior” posting thousands of useless comments. At the end of the day, I really don’t care what the reason is, I’m just quite surprised that a new Villages posts a rather simple and straightforward request and gets the runaround and added frustration as opposed to a solution.

Okay, haters… my door is open, pile on if you feel the need.

For Mr. Twister, (the OP) welcome to The Villages.

This is a 5-star rated reply and I concur 100%!! I have wanted to say these very things to many posts I see on TOTV, but didn’t want to take the time.
Thank you for saying the truth so perfectly!!

I have a lawnmower with a bag. You’re welcome to use it.

Thank you all for the positive responses!
 

Thank you all! Found one to use! Getting to work now!

Mower
 

The last thing I wanted to do was something I did for 60 years up north, but had no desire in TV where I am too busy.

Problem around TV is most garages are narrow, making it hard to store lawn equipment. Sounds like a good weed eater will do the trick and a rake.

Kind folks here in TV!
 

How kind of you! I have a battery operated mower for our small Villa yard. I love it! If anyone reading this wonders if these mowers work, I’m quite happy with mine; given my small yard. Same for my weed eater and blower. Light weight, self propelled and no gas.

And where was your offer? O you don’t have one, then need go out and buy one so he can borrow it.

A lawn rake works fine. Have been picking them up for over 25 years.

I have one you can borrow

gary 216 702 7897

Lawn mower
 

You said exactly what I was thinking. It seems like SOME of the frequent posters here want to just make a joke of everything.

I can see that some people like to "do it yourself". And some might like the exercise. What I don't understand is the "with a bag" part of the request. To take that to an extreme for clarity sake....... what if I said to someone, " I want to borrow a lawn mower, but it must be electrical, have a bag, and be painted blue". That would NOT make sense.
......Also, I cut my grass without a bag because the grass can feed off of the clippings and they won't run-off into the lakes like over-fertilization with unnatural commercial fertilizers will.

Top, if you bothered to look at the headings on my post you would know that I do not yet live in The Villages. Still residing in TX until April.

And yes, had I already been living there I would gladly share my tools with anyone in need.

Well said.
Fortunately, the smugness encountered on TOTV is not representative of the general attitudes one encounters in The Villages.

The bag was to pick up leaves whilst mowing.
Makes life easier, and saves energy.
Very green!

Ok, But, Do you have a mower he can borrow?

I have a gas powered leaf blower that would work on those tiny leaves. I have been paying a company to do my lawn for many years now. Even so, I still need to redo much of what they do. I am thinking of getting an electric and mowing it myself. I have aerated the lawn, fertilized, water, only for the LS Crew to sweep in and cut the Zoysia too short. It also gives me something to do.

OP, going forward, if you get a leaf blower, get one with the vacuum pickup option and the bag this works very well for picking up small leaves (as you mentioned), and the vacuum pickup should be long enough for you to do this standing up. On ours, the bag and blower are on a should strap, and the setup works very well.