The previous owner of the repair run moved to a costal village near the National Capital.
Just about all of the beach side properties are owned by public servants on healthy salaries and are weekenders .
He noticed every Monday morning, a lot of mowers , trimmers & blowers siting on the curb.
It took a year to work out what was happening.
Most government departments work Flexi-Time and a 9 day fortnight.
Some allow you to bank one day so you can do one 3 day week every 2nd month.
So to suck up to their superiours & intimidate their underlings they hold regular dinner parties.
'Flex off Wed, drive down to the weekender get up Thurs morning, mower won't go order a new one from the shop 20 miles away because they deliver same day.
Toss out all the "bad" stuff Monday before they leave for work .
So none of the locals ever buy any yard equipment, or dishwashers, or fridges, freezers etc, they just pick them off the curb Monday mornings in summer .
He has a brand new 19" Honda SP which he fitted with fitted with Victa 4 blade mulching plate, brand new Honda 35 cc brush cutter , Stihl BR 400 , Shindawa hedge trimmer & blower .
All picked up off the side of the road , around $ 5000 ( Aus) .
The worst one had a blocked air filter, most just had water in the fuel or a fouled spark plug, some just had no fuel or in the case of the Honda mowers, fuel tap turned off ( wonder why it would not start ).
SO now I understand why we get these idiot pollution laws cause there are the type of people who make them .
