Mowing the lawn!!

[artme]

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???

[specialist]

No problem here.

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

Rob

[Opelblues2]

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

[pjt]

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

[Sawdust Maker]

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

[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.

[artme]

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.

A true Philistine!!!

[Pat]

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.

[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 .
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 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

[artme]

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 .
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 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

What a mongrel act!!!!

[Big Shed]

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

Takes me about 3 days.

[BamBam53]

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.

[Cliff Rogers]

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.

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.

[artme]

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!!

[Sawdust Maker]

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