Haven’t used the gas blower yet this year, been using the electric one. This one had been left in the shed and I brought it into the garage to see if it would start up but wasn’t planning on getting to it for a day or two. Someone (not me!) left gas in it.
Well. I’m minding my own business putting up some shelves in the garage and I start hearing a noise. I’ve had issues with wildlife getting trapped in the garage when I close it for the night a couple times recently, so I start moving and tapping on things and muttering to myself about no nature being allowed in the garage without prior permission. Finally I figure out the sound is coming from the leaf blower, and also that it smells a little like mammal excrement.
Set it in the driveway for a little while and lo and behold a lil field mouse popped out of it. Wasn’t fast enough to get a pic of the perpetrator. It has subsequently gone back in when I wasn’t looking!
I’m taking a poll. Do I:
- put it straight back in the shed and ignore it for another year
- post it for free on Craigslist without backstory
- tear it down, clean it up, put it back into service
- just fire it up and let ‘er rip (I wouldn’t)
- leave it in the driveway for a few days and see if the problem conveniently solves itself
My fellow dull dudes, what do?
I live in a city and I’m leaving it in the driveway tonight. If it disappears, I will have a laugh at what’s to come for whoever snags it. I haven’t had issues with porch or driveway piracy but I have had my car rifled through when I forgot to lock it.
This is not a solution I would have thought of.
I left my garage door open by mistake one night, and someone stole a drill press and a miter saw. They weren’t very good ones, but they worked, and I used them. They missed my 20-year-old badass worm drive Skilsaw, though.