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Bartimus
Posted on Friday, June 23, 2017 - 03:21 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Im cheap, and lazy, so I have an economical riding lawn mower

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Rick_a
Posted on Friday, June 23, 2017 - 04:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Nothing special. It works.



On such occasions the wife restrains my yearning for more power.


It does handily beat the old mower. (Not ours but the same model)
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Strokizator
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 10:04 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Just picked this up yesterday.
I blame you guys.
Mower
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Ourdee
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 01:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You are welcome. You will enjoy it. 2 or 3 passes at trimming with the discharge facing away from buildings. Then back and forth working on smooth turn arounds, and accelerating out of the corners. No knee dragging. I always wanted a mirror to see if a kid was sneaking up on the back of me. Biggest chewing out my youngest ever got!
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Hootowl
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 02:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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Bartimus
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 02:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I see nothing to mow in that yard
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Hootowl
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 03:11 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yeah, it works really well. : )

That's the empty lot next to me. I bought it about a year ago and have been rounduping the crap out of it. This winter, the sod goes in. The koi pond and deck are behind the camera.
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Fast1075
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 04:54 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

If I'm home, I sit by the pool and watch the lawn guy torture the lawn with various implements of destruction. Unless it's hot. Then I stay inside. I don't get along well at all with grass clippings on a hot day. My strategy to not get an asthma attach is to stay away.

(Message edited by fast1075 on June 24, 2017)
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Ourdee
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 06:15 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Pine trees will make a mess in the koi pond.
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Hootowl
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 06:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

They're far enough away. I get a few when it's windy, but the skimmer takes care of them. I also have inoculated the pond with a bacteria blend that eats dead leaves etc. Bottom of the pond is spotless.
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1313
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 07:59 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Just sayin'...

Carpet mower

It popped up in my Facebook memories, or WTF they call it, today. I thought it appropriate for this discussion.

Me, I use a black V-Twin! It's a 27 hp Kohler V-Twin, 54" cut Craftsman Yard Tractor. I think I got it in 2011, shortly after I bought my house. I came into some money and didn't want to pay my neighbor $60 each time to mow my lawn, so I figured why not. I may have overbought a bit, but that just means it will last me longer. No regrets, it has treated me well.

Oh yeah, and a Stihl weed whacker, too!

It think it's fitting to end this post with a quote that was (possibly over-)used at this years Homecoming:

GET OFF MY LAWN!
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Buellish
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 08:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I have a Craftsman 22" cut self propelled with a 6.5 hp Briggs that I bought in '98 when I moved to Woodstock,it still runs great.I had a Craftsman 50" cut zero turn with a 22 hp Briggs that I sold in '09 to make a couple of mortgage payments.
When I was living in a rental and looking for land in the mountains,my friend Jim offered me a free Craftsman rider with a 46" deck and a 16 hp Kohler.His neighbor who is a member of the more money than brains club,called him and offered him this mower that he "had to replace because it died",Jim was driving it back and forth in front of the guys house 30 minutes later after swapping the battery from his rider.I have tuned it,replaced the blades and a wheel bearing and have under $50 in it.
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Hootowl
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 09:17 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


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Buellish
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 10:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Now that looks peaceful.
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Etennuly
Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 11:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I would put some fighting bass in that pond!
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Pwnzor
Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 03:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

TroyBilt from Lowes... was cheap and reliable.



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Brother_in_buells
Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 04:51 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

http://petdiys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DIY- Rabbit-Lawnmower-Cage.jpg
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 05:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I like the tonka truck wheels and special calibrated brick on the top.
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Hootowl
Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 05:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Very effective, if you remember to move it periodically.

Honey, what are you doing?

Mowing the lawn.

Huh. Because it looks like you're sitting on ass drinking a beer.

Yep.
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Zac4mac
Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 11:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I got a Ryobi 16" Li-Ion 40v and got the wife to run it.
Never knew mowing the lawn could be a spectator sport.
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Rick_a
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 10:39 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)


quote:

I got a Ryobi 16" Li-Ion 40v and got the wife to run it.
Never knew mowing the lawn could be a spectator sport.



Your skills are extra-ordinary.

The wife will do the front lawn if she feels it's gotten too long for her tastes. It takes all of several minutes. She looks to me proudly and says that she's mowed the lawn...only the vast majority of the lawn is in the back. That's a couple hours...if you're running with the mower.
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Etennuly
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 11:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My wife pulls that game too. If she mows part of the lawn for twenty minutes she tells people she mows as if she does all of it, all year! Not to complain but she always mows with the little tractor doing the stuff that the big tractor does in a couple of minutes. She manages to leave dead grass furrows and lumps, and goes fast enough that it skips wire like grasses. She won't mow where the little mower needs to, like trimming or under trees etc., then when I get to it to do that stuff it is always setting somewhere out in the yard out of gas! Yep. I hate it when she helps mow. No help is better than bad help! 30 years of trying, she is untrainable and I hate it when she shuts the engine off when it is at full throttle.

Me thinks she has an underlying plan to keep me from asking her to mow.
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Rick_a
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 12:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That's hilarious
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 12:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

>>>I hate it when she shuts the engine off when it is at full throttle.

It it's anything like my John Deere . . . it's akin to cycling the key on and off on an old Sportster . . . KAPOW !
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Hootowl
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 03:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"Me thinks she has an underlying plan to keep me from asking her to mow."

This was likely derived from your plan to have her never ask you to do the dishes. : )
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Ourdee
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 03:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I love my wife and she knows that I will cut the lawn and there is to be no help offered. I was out of state and she decided to help. She backed into my push mower with the car while it was up against the wall, dropped it onto a cinder block while it was running, put twice the oil capacity into it, and could not figure out why it quit running. The rider is parked where the car can't get to it, and the keys are hid.
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Etennuly
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 05:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I will do dishes if I set the table. I use the good plastic silverware and quality paper plates. My plan works even better when ordering food in!
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Court
Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 06:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

>>>>My plan works even better when ordering food in!

I tried matches.

Worked great for the intended purpose . . .but had nasty side effects.


fired



fired
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Rick_a
Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 01:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Have you been on fire? It's not fun.
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Loose1
Posted on Monday, August 07, 2017 - 09:06 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My brother mows our yard with a 1954 moz-all. It's actually a rider but he doesn't have the trailer.
1954 moz-all
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