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Gardening Safely

  • 12-01-2015 12:45am
    #1
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭


    What steps do you take to ensure you work safely outside when using electric lawnmowers? Is there an extension lead you can buy that is safe to use outside?


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  • #2
    monkeynuz
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    myshirt wrote: »
    What steps do you take to ensure you work safely outside when using electric lawnmowers? Is there an extension lead you can buy that is safe to use outside?

    Buy a circuit breaker and don't mow over the cable, you may find throwing the lead over a shoulder helps to keep it out of the way.


  • #3
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    Can you plug the circuit breaker into the wall; your extension lead into the circuit breaker; and your lawnmower into the extension lead?

    Is that safe?

    Good idea with throwing lead over shoulder, I'll use that.


  • #4
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,719 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    Mind the lead on the mower. I start in the corner nearest the plug and work away so i never have to go back over where hte lead might be.
    I run an extension lead out the window, its plug is fused and the sockets on a circuitbreaker anyway. Don't use it in the rain.


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