Just discovered the amazing work the plow guy did to my yard. I’m beyond pissed… I just fully renovated this yard and it was looking so good. Anyone else experience something like this? Should I reach out to the city or just deal with it myself?
by Der_Bazzle
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Put some grade stakes up…
Happened to me last year, still devastated from it. I bought snow sticks for the property edge because of it. I dont think the town will do anything but you can try. I think the best thing to do is accept it and just know you can fix it. Might be worth reaching out anyway though, thats pretty far up on the curb haha
Put up some sticks or big rocks… or a spike strip. Do not call the town unless you want some K31 in there. Not worth the hassle.
You gotta put up the big orange sticks on the edge of your lawn
Reach out and see if they will reimburse you, tell them you want to fix it yourself but see if they will at least pay for some seed/dirt. It’s a stretch but they may work with you.
Amazon did something similar to my yard this year. I was absolutely furious. The most they’d offer me over the phone was $100 unless I agreed to hiring a landscaping company and they’d “reimburse” me. Not a chance I am allowing a landscape crew near my yard. Having to explain countless times how $100 would not cover a fraction of the costs involved (seed, soil, equipment being used, time etc) I just gave up and took their shitty gift card.
I’d contact your town (presuming it was street ploughing) and discuss further. Show pictures prior to what it looked like, a rough estimate of seed and soil costs + how long it’ll take to repair their fuck up. You may actually get someone more than what I got from those Amazon cunts. Definitely put sticks up though, as this will continue to happen.
Next year you’ll put some yard markers. They’re like $10.
I don’t miss this! 😭
Driveway markers are cheap at the hardware store. Can probably rake out the lawn damage on a mild day.
Depending on your township their right of way probably extends at a minimum several feet onto your lawn area. Id be careful putting any obstacles or delineation (rocks or markers) that close to the edge of road because although you maintain it it may be in the towns right of way. My town has strict guidelines that prohibits placement of large boulders or delineators within the ROW to deter this from happening.
Happens every year to my lawn. I put up the fiberglass orange poles, has helped. But I’ll take the damage, rather deal with a little damage come summer than have them do it out of spite by complaining.
“Let me take care of that edging for you…”. Plow Guy probably.
Ibwas out snowblowing my driveway Sunday and watched the plow guy do this to the folks across the street from me (who happens to be the most lawn-obsessed guy on the block), except it was prolly 30 feet long and 10-12 feet into the yard. Plow guy got out and was trying to roll back the sod!
Looks like your yard is at a corner or turn of some sorts. You might benefit from putting those wood stakes or those yellow poles every 4 feet or so.. shallow curbs don’t help as well
Did you mark the edge of the grass/street so he could see where it was? Or was he supposed to have a mental map of exactly down to the foot where the edge is of every street?
City (or at least mine) did not care in the slightest last year. Ripped up a good 40 ft of yd and about 1-2 feet in.
Which reminds me, I need to put up reflector poles marking the edge of the street. Snowed yesterday, hoping they didn’t tear it up again.
This happened all the time in my childhood house.
My dad went to the landscape yard, bought a big old rock and plopped it down on the edge of the property line. He made sure it was big enough to poke through the snow so people can’t claim they were not aware of the rock.
We lived at the bottom of a hill and every winter there would be cars that were going to fast down the hill and take out the mailbox and yard. That rock was a major deterrent and for the rest of the time we lived there, only 2 cars ever ran into it.
We had a lazy ass salter pull into our culdesac and just chill for 40min. Then dump a yard if salt and fuck odd. Then the next day the plow came by and pushed it into my side yard!!!!
This salt then burned the shit out of a 4’x6′ patch. I dug out some and added fertilizer. I can’t even get clover to grow there.
Across the street neabours has a property up in the woods somewhere so he took all the salt. Because honestly I have no idea what i would do with it. Guess in the spring I’ll have to dig down deeper and replace as much soil as I can and sod it.
Like you. I’m left thinking. Fantastic. Now what.
Edit: worse yet. Our town has a plow watch. You can see where they all are and what they are doing.
https://citizeninsights.geotab.com/#/mississauga
That’s nothing. Last year the city plow came down our street and smashed off the end of anyone’s retaining wall that went down to the street.
You sound like all my whiny-ass neighbors. The portion of your beautiful lawn is part of the right of way for the road. Don’t like it, move somewhere where there’s no snow.
That’s the gift that keeps on giving Clark.
In some cities you can file a complaint or service request in the spring and they will come plant new sod.
There’s little or no chance that the city or township will do anything about it, I’m sure they have far greater things to be concerned with, in the big picture it’s only grass, ” oh look at their lawn, they must be really good people” lol 😂
You will look like an absolute crazy person, but next thaw pick through those plowings and try to re-lay the sod as best you can. It will be better than nothing and will help a little bit to hold things in place for the spring.
While you wait for that thaw, shovel your portion of the sidewalk be the example that caring for public property is a shared responsibility that goes both ways.
Find the biggest but shortest rock you can and cover the bald spot…you’ll get em back next year
You need golf swing alignment sticks around your yard
I used to plow for the county. Sometimes when we got a lot of snow it was almost impossible to see the edge of the road. You try to clear as much to the edge as you can because if not, people complain.
That’s easily repairable. You can call them and ask for them to come clean it up but they’re throwing whatever seed they have and straw on top after trying to smooth the area out the best they can.
Our road department was a joke to work at. Gravy 8 hour shifts Monday-Friday not in a hurry to get anything done. Everyone just milked the clock and had too much free time on their hands so everyone just complained. Worst work environment I had ever been a part of. Everyone that worked there had the job because of somebody they knew.
Took away the pension and made it a normal 401k and got rid of free insurance after retirement. I was the first hired in under these new set of rules. Got out as quick as I could. Sorry had to rant.
Big fucking boulders man
Big ass rocks man. Only solution
To all those that commented to put the orange sticks, it doesn’t matter. I use the ones with reflectors and they still tore it up. It’s a yearly battle for me.
No problem, might go deeper next time
Love how you complain about the plow but you haven’t bothered to shovel the sidewalk yet.
Mine hits my mailbox every year. I don’t know why I try anymore.
this is always why I shovel the edge of the curb to give them an idea of what they’re working with
You need the snow stakes to be in place.
Hardware stores sometimes have cheap metal decorative fences you could stake them into the perimeter before snowfall. My neighbour does the cul-de-sac sidewalk with a quad with a plow and scraped my lawn once. Put up the decorative fence, problem solved
Doesn’t always work but some townships you can call and they will come out in the spring and repair.
Then if we didnt have snow plows we would all complain about that..
Just happened to me yet and we haven’t even had any snow, just rain. And not a plow, just a random a-hole in a car who decided they wanted to swerve into the yard. The orange sticks I was waiting for this week to install. Dang.