1. Adam Bolander

    Adam Bolander Senior Member

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    Public lawn mowers?

    Discussion in 'Research' started by Adam Bolander, Jan 25, 2021.

    Weird question, but I can't find the answer anywhere. What do you call the people who cut the grass in public, city-owned places? Like, along the roads and places like that?
     
  2. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Landscapers.
     
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    This might depend on location and whether it's a private company or a government-employed company. I've heard 'right-of-way mowing' and 'grounds maintenance' on different occasions.
     
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    big soft moose An Admoostrator Admin Staff Supporter Contributor Community Volunteer

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    groundsmen or grounds operatives (The latter being the more PC)
     
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    Xoic Prognosticator of Arcana Ridiculosum Contributor Blogerator

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    Groundskeepers, though that usually refers to private property, not public, at least in the US. Lawn maintenance contractors maybe.
     
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    I call them 'the mower guys' or 'the state mower guys' if they're mowing the side of the highway. If they're cutting my lawn, then they're 'my mower guys'.
     
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    Xoic Prognosticator of Arcana Ridiculosum Contributor Blogerator

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    Here's a few answers from Yahoo! Answers:

    Most major highways are the responsibility of the State Highway Department. It could also be the City or County, for local highways.

    The city takes care of the highway grass usually with work release inmates from the local prison

    The state highway department.But with all the cutbacks I have noticed that in my state it has been subbed out to private lawn maintenance companies.This may not be the case in your area.

    These answers are from like a decade ago. I usually see what I take to be large scale contractors who I think do a lot of work besides mowing, like pick up trash etc.
     
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    Seven Crowns Moderator Staff Supporter Contributor Contest Winner 2022

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    I like the ones who are on those giant Segway mowers, swishing left, right, doing figure eights. It's like they're ice skating down the roadside.
     
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    Friedrich Kugelschreiber marshmallow Contributor

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    I wouldn't call them landscapers because that denotes the moving of earth and the installation of flagstone paths and koi ponds. I would call them "the guys mowing the cemetery" or the "park lawn mower guys." The actual job title is probably municipal groundskeeper or something like that.
     
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    Xoic Prognosticator of Arcana Ridiculosum Contributor Blogerator

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    last year I saw one driving a Bobcat pushing a huge industrial mower deck, double-wide. He cut through a field of head-high weeds like nothing.

    Like this:
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    (But with much taller weeds)
     

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