Pluggers by Rick McKee for April 23, 2023

In reality the needed electricity is 50 feet away from the plugger’s house. New (non-pluggers) houses are so close now that you know if the neighbor has farted before he does.

Most of my equipment is battery powered so I don’t have to worry about that pesky cord ! But one must remember to charge the batteries ;-)

“been there, done that”

Every one should cut that cable……….

I have yet to meet someone with hedge trimmers where the corresponding extension cord isn’t repaired in at least a couple of .places.

Haha, that was me with my electric snowblower, 2 1/2 days into using it, jammed, ruined new cable. I learned to be mindful of where the cable is at all times and to turn machine off when turning it around or backing it up.

In the words of Homer Jay Simpson: “D’oh!”

Fortunately I don’t need a hedge trimmer.

I now have no hedges or bushes to trim. I do minor hand loping (neighbor’s tree) and pruning (wife’s rose bushes) as needed, which isn’t very often. My mower, snow blower, and pressure washer are all gas powered.

I am definitely a Plugger (81) and when I cut the cable, it was for the TV and am quite happy without it. 5 years now. As for lawn and yard equipment some is gas powered (snow blower) and the rest is either battery powered or with power cords. I am always mindful about where that cord is, so none of them ever get cut.

Anybody else paying double since everyone decided cable was too expensive?

I’ve done that with lawnmower power cords.

Memories of son cutting the lawn for the first time. :)

If you live far enough out in the country, they never ran the cable to you. If you live within about 50 miles of the stations, you can get everything by antenna, using a Tablo box to record, and rent whatever aps you want for as long as you want to watch what’s on them. The internet costs $45 a month and the aps are about $15, so you can get more than you could ever watch, and you get to choose exactly what you get, for $60 a month. Or, you could go crazy and get everything for less than the $280 I was paying for Directv.

I would expect that to stay in business, Directv and Dish are going to have to start charging more and more for the people who can’t find anything better.

I did that the first time I used my handheld rotary saw.

Repairs are a pain (at about 10 min) and you lose 2-3’ of cord each time.

why is born again good and woke bad???

Raminds me of the time I ran over the cord to my mom’s snowblower. Mangled up the works beyond repair.

Dad bought a Sunbeam electric lawnmower around 1960. We learned to work away from where the cord was plugged in, to avoid running over it. One had to plan ahead when cutting around trees though, or the cord got short really fast. Never had an “Opps!”

Today’s “Next Door Neighbors Classic” also addresses the theme of power tool misadventures in the outdoors.

I would rather NOT discuss it ! ! !

Years ago I hired a guy who was down on his luck, looking for handyman jobs, to trim the bushes around my business. He nicked the copper line that ran from the A/C unit into the building and all the coolant gas escaped. Replacing the copper line was no big deal, but it cost me over $500 to get it all fixed, as it took 4-5 cans of coolant, which are super costly. When the guy came around again a couple years later looking for odd jobs, I declined.

My wife has done that a couple times. I’m more careful around the extension cords. (I’m the one who pays for them.)