Mowing the lawn!!

When we moved here I had two 18" mowers. It soon became obvious that with a block of all but 2000 square metres such a small cut would be a veritable PITA.

Ana wanted me to buy a ride on but I objected on two counts: cost and the need for me to exercise.

I bought a Toro 4 stroke with a 22"cut and it is more or less self propelled. The mower does a good job.

I only have two complaints about the mowing exercise: The heat and humidity causes rapid growth which requires more frequent mowing and I get bloody hot walking/pushing that machine!!

How are others getting on this summer???

No problem here.:2tsup:

Hot as hell, No rain, No humidity=NO GRASS.:U

Rob

I mowed on Saturday, I will have to mow again this week, nope!!! I will just let I grow a little bit just to upset the bottom neighbour. who will mow a least 3 times this week

It's a bit the same here, I let mine grow long so I get a big pile of cuttings to make a compost pile, the neighbors on the other hand find it to be a job that has to be done at greater frequency, along with that comes the whipper snipper, hedge trimmer, leaf blower and then a whole bunch of swearing :(




Pete

It's raining here at the moment ... so I can't :D

I gave up mowing the lawn and installed synthetic. Now I have two lawn chores.
1 - Use the shop vac to pick up the leaves after we have the 'Santa Ana' winds. Probably twice a year.
2 - I have to apply weed killer at the edges of the grass once a year.
In all, maybe 5 hours a year.

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Originally Posted by rrich

I gave up mowing the lawn and installed synthetic. Now I have two lawn chores.
1 - Use the shop vac to pick up the leaves after we have the 'Santa Ana' winds. Probably twice a year.
2 - I have to apply weed killer at the edges of the grass once a year.
In all, maybe 5 hours a year.

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A true Philistine!!!:q

I mow once a fortnight. Even though sometimes it needs mowing 2 days after the last mow. I love winter, when I can get away with mowing once per month.

I also have about 2000m2 and have tried a number of technologies including horse agistment.
In recent years i have paid the sons of neighbours to cut it.
In what I thought was a very clever business model, next door's son broke the starter on MY mower and continued to mow with his father's thus leaving me without an alternative :no:.
Last Saturday after 4 weeks of no mowing, he appeared before me tell me that he was SO sorry :; but his father's mower was now broken too and he still couldn't mow my place!
He seemed so disappointed :no: at not being able to mow that i drove straight to Bunnings and bought a new Victa for $380.
The look on his face when I pointed to the new mower, in the middle of the paddock, running, was priceless!

The gin and tonic I drank while watching him mow was the sweetest I have ever had!

fletty

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Originally Posted by fletty

I also have about 2000m2 and have tried a number of technologies including horse agistment.
In recent years i have paid the sons of neighbours to cut it.
In what I thought was a very clever business model, next door's son broke the starter on MY mower and continued to mow with his father's thus leaving me without an alternative :no:.
Last Saturday after 4 weeks of no mowing, he appeared before me tell me that he was SO sorry :; but his father's mower was now broken too and he still couldn't mow my place!
He seemed so disappointed :no: at not being able to mow that i drove straight to Bunnings and bought a new Victa for $380.
The look on his face when I pointed to the new mower, in the middle of the paddock, running, was priceless!

The gin and tonic I drank while watching him mow was the sweetest I have ever had!

fletty

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What a mongrel act!!!!:D:D:D

I have 100,000m2:D (25 acres) and mow 2-3 times a year using my 1350mm wide slasher.:;

Takes me about 3 days.

Now the kids are old enough, I pay them to mow the lawn. We have not had rain since before Christmas so its not growing much at present.

We have a greenfield 32" ride on, an 18Hp 4wd Kubota with a 54" deck under it & a good old push mower that has had a stuffed pull start for about 4 years now. :D

If you are going to give in & get a ride on, go & sit on it in the shop for about a half hour & then stand up & try walking.

I hate the bloody Greenfield 'cos I come off it like a cripple.
I can ride the Kubota for 6 hours without a problem.

Thanks for tip Cliff!

As for BamBam paying the kids we had to do the job as kids and no bloody power mower!!.

I remember coming back from A couple of weeks away at Nambucca and running in to see the state of the yard.
My heart sank to somewhere below ground level. The grass was damned near as tall as I was! Good old dad!!
He saw my distress, laughed and got stuck into the job!!

We always joked that when we owned a house we would have green concrete! \Well a fellow over Manly way
concreted his ablock and painted it green. Looks bloody terrible!!

The local primary school got sick of trying to grow grass out the front - nobody walked on the path etc
so they gave up and the P&C got some sort of artificial turf in - looks like grass to me

I have an electric mower. It starts first time every time for my wife.

I've got a Toro ride on, still get plenty of exercise going round the fence line with the whipper snipper. There's also a couple of areas that the ride on isn't suitable for (under low trees) that I do with the lawnmower.

My partner decided that the electric mower was too noisy and she didn't like it, so she went and bought a push mower to get the exercise. Guess who the silly mug is that now has to mow the lawn:doh:. Fortunately it doesn't grow that well, and only needs mowing 3-4 times a year.
Kryn

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Originally Posted by KBs PensNmore

My partner decided that the electric mower was too noisy and she didn't like it, so she went and bought a push mower to get the exercise. Guess who the silly mug is that now has to mow the lawn:doh:.
Kryn

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Too noisy - electric............:o

Put on some music and turn up the volume :;

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Originally Posted by Bob38S

Too noisy - electric............:o

Put on some music and turn up the volume :;

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She complains about the electric blower vac and my country music from the shed, it's not loud. I've given her a new nickname, Never, as her surname is Goodenough.:rolleyes:

sounds like my neighbour

I know when she's got a hangover as she complains that the music from the shed is too loud - and this is in the middle of the day
so I turn it down and slowly increase the volume over the next week

I think I might start complaining about her smoking

Oh to live on about 50 - 100 acres

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Originally Posted by Sawdust Maker

sounds like my neighbour

I know when she's got a hangover as she complains that the music from the shed is too loud - and this is in the middle of the day
so I turn it down and slowly increase the volume over the next week

I think I might start complaining about her smoking

Oh to live on about 50 - 100 acres

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Amen to that!

I live on 80 acres. The idiot tenant across the road decided to sight in his rifle. The bullet missed the target and whistled past my ear while I was servicing my car about 200m away, in the middle of my own property! I like guns, but not in the hands of idiots.
Life on acreage is not always a bed of roses.:no: