# Latest time of day you'd run a lawnmower? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 16, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687 "2006-07-16T02:21:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/41 "2006-07-18T03:49:09Z")
I say 10-6 because those are hours of normal business operation and that is time in which people expect noise and such around their home. I understand it is hot, and if you are polite enough to check in with or at least warn your neighbors it shouldn’t be a problem with anyone if you want to mow before or after that. I try very hard to make sure that I am not disturbing my neighbors and try to give a heads up if I am going to have a loud party or be moving furniture or doing something that could be disturbing when people are waking up or winding down for the day and I expect the same from my neighbors. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/42 "2006-07-18T06:05:58Z")
I try to be done before 9:00 p.m. or dark (but will go late if the alternative is to wait through an upcoming weather front and not be able to finish for another week and another 4" of bluegrass). I have no near neighbors with small children or odd working hours. (Deb has the odd working hours–overnight on-call–and I will put off starting the job until she is up or called out for a visit rather than starting earlier and waking her after a night with four calls or something.) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/43 "2006-07-18T11:40:54Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I say 10-6 because those are hours of normal business operation and that is time in which people expect noise and such around their home. I understand it is hot, and if you are polite enough to check in with or at least warn your neighbors it shouldn’t be a problem with anyone if you want to mow before or after that. I try very hard to make sure that I am not disturbing my neighbors and try to give a heads up if I am going to have a loud party or be moving furniture or doing something that could be disturbing when people are waking up or winding down for the day and I expect the same from my neighbors. When it comes to business hours, I say if the garbage truck can lumber through the neighborhood at 7:00 am, I can run a lawn mower. I also think it’s a reasonable expectation that the neighbors are awake at 8:00 pm. I mean, how long does it take to cut the grass? People are way too sensitive. We just had a story on the news yesterday. A church bell has been sounding on the quarter hour until 7:00 pm since 1898, and two neighbors pitched a bitch about it, so the church is now stopping at 6:00. WTF! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/44 "2006-07-18T12:01:17Z")
For me, lawnmowing is fair game between 8 AM and sundown. Since I’m moving to a hobby farm this weekend in the middle of nowhere and my mower has headlights, I could even mow into the half hour of twilight, too. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/45 "2006-07-18T12:06:51Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > For me, lawnmowing is fair game between 8 AM and sundown. Since I’m moving to a hobby farm this weekend in the middle of nowhere and my mower has headlights, I could even mow into the half hour of twilight, too. Been there. Done that. Drunk. At midnight. Do not try this at home. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/46 "2006-07-18T12:21:19Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Been there. Done that. Drunk. At midnight. Do not try this at home. Midnight, maybe. Drunk, no. I don’t drink for medical reasons other than addiction. By definition, I’d have to do it at home… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687/47 "2006-07-18T12:25:34Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Right now my hometown is under a government **Knowzone Alert** because we are in the downwind Indianapolis metropolitan area. Whenever possible, we are to mow our lawns and fill our gas tanks **after 7:00 pm.** Last summer, it was 6:00 pm, but this year we are on the newfangled DST. When I was there, Knowzones annoyed me so much that I went out of my way to violate them, and give them the proverbial finger. Now that I’m in East Jesus NC, they don’t matter… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-time-of-day-youd-run-a-lawnmower/364687.md?page=2)