Thread: What machine is that

Had a visit from my new neighbour this morning. He was out using a router on his veranda and noticed the wife had hung out some washing on the line close to the fence line. He was concerned that dust from the routing would get on the washing and had come over to let us know of his concerns.

Being a good neighbour ain't that hard.....wonder why so many people find it hard?

Originally Posted by kiwigeo

Had a visit from my new neighbour this morning. He was out using a router on his veranda and noticed the wife had hung out some washing on the line close to the fence line. He was concerned that dust from the routing would get on the washing and had come over to let us know of his concerns.

Being a good neighbour ain't that hard.....wonder why so many people find it hard?

In todays world it seems most people are only in it for themselfs and don't care about everyone else they step on. Just go out and drive on the roads and you can see what i mean, well at least in perth and sydney it's that way.

Originally Posted by kiwigeo

Had a visit from my new neighbour this morning. He was out using a router on his veranda and noticed the wife had hung out some washing on the line close to the fence line. He was concerned that dust from the routing would get on the washing and had come over to let us know of his concerns.

Being a good neighbour ain't that hard.....wonder why so many people find it hard?

That's the way I operate, kiwigeo and It brightens my day to hear that others do it as well.

I made sure that my neighbour wasn't unhappy about smoke from my pizza oven the first couple of burns after I built it and I put a lot of effort into setting a fire with the least amount of smoke possible. I've had another neighbour who was a nice bloke, but just didn't think about the split system aircon box he stuck on his wall aiming straight at our bedroom windows, or the use of power saws and hammers at 11:00pm when he was renovating once.

Some people get it, but plenty don't unfortunately.

Even though I'm allowed to make noise from powered equipment from 7am, If I have a days work outside, I still arrange my activities so that I'm doing quiet stuff for the first part of the day to give the neighbours a bit of a sleep in. Easy to do, (almost always) makes no difference to what I'm trying to achieve and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling for being a nice bloke, even though those benefiting from it don't know about it.

Have a good one.

Just a guess that the machine that's causing annoyance is probably a jointer or thicknesser, they seem to be the noisiest in the workshop.

As Kiwi & mikm have said, it's much easier if you stay on good terms right from the start. One neighbour & I both use ww machines, but we've asked the other neighbours to let us know if there's ever a problem. We don't use noisy machines at unreasonable hours, try to avoid using them at weekends, and the neighbours know that if they ever need anything made, it'll be done free. Only bloke who ever came & saw me was a shift worker - fair enough. He wasn't a close neighour, but I'm glad he came to me rather than complained to the council.