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I detached the bottom J piece and mucked it out with a screwdriver. It was packed solid with rotting pine needles, but had several fat earthworms in it too. Score.
Then I poured some water from the hose in the top of the spout and proceeded to scrape at the jam with fingers. Messy, smelly work.
At a certain point in the process I heard a great sucking sound, and a solid, rectangular column of decomposing pine duff extruded from the opening like Silly Putty before a drain pipe's worth of water came gushing out at me. It surprised me such that I leapt straight up and backwards from the surge, a feat somewhat impressive at my age.

I detached the bottom J piece and mucked it out with a screwdriver. It was packed solid with rotting pine needles, but had several fat earthworms in it too. Score. Then I poured some water from the hose in the top of the spout and proceeded to scrape at the jam with fingers. Messy, smelly work. At a certain point in the process I heard a great sucking sound, and a solid, rectangular column of decomposing pine duff extruded from the opening like Silly Putty before a drain pipe's worth of water came gushing out at me. It surprised me such that I leapt straight up and backwards from the surge, a feat somewhat impressive at my age.

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Stupid pine trees! I love to cut em down! The boys hate to clean it up! Lol

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lots of ticks and chiggers too, i bet.

i tip my hat to ye

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TIL chiggers are not what I thought they were.

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where i live, they are horrible. a bleach bath is the only way to make sure they are gone.

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fuckin pine cones

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Might want to clean the actual gutters too

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I did but that part is easy. The bottom of the spout is level with the ground so it builds up faster.

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They should make gutter drain spouts with grinders in them like a kitchen sink.

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At a certain point in the process I heard a great sucking sound

Incredibly satisfying when a blockage suddenly gives away!

I had a blocked kitchen sink once, and none of the usual tactics would clear it, so I ran the garden hose into the kitchen, detached the plastic pipe from under the sink, put the hose in and sealed with blu-tack. Turned on the hose full, and shortly afterwards, was rewarded by the slobbering, sucking, noise of the blockage suddenly coming loose.

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can work for toilets too...wrap tape around the hose end so it doesn't leave black marks on the porcelain, and stuff a towel tightly into the bowl. Feed the hose in as far as possible, and blast that sucker.

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Hell, yes! Only problem is the back-blast of sewer-gas. The wife may complain, but to me, it is the sweet smell of suck-cess!

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Pack the towel in tightly, and turn on the fart fan, King.

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a feat somewhat impressive at my age

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