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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 3:32:19 GMT
I am curious to know how much time you spend mowing your lawn.
I get off pretty easy, just less than an hour each time we mow, but that includes everything. I've got a super small place.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 3:48:19 GMT
None. I have teenagers for that. We live on a very shaded rock patch. They mow about once a month about an hour at a shot. They have a fairly large riding lawn mower.
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Post by willowgirl on Apr 30, 2015 4:32:41 GMT
It takes me maybe an hour with the push mower. Dysfunction Junction is complicated -- there are trees, shrubs and flowerbeds everywhere! So lots of stuff to go around. I like mowing, though. Numb hates it, so I do most of it.
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Post by mollymckee on Apr 30, 2015 4:44:29 GMT
About 45 minutes with our lawn tractor. We don't have a huge lawn, there are gardens, pasture, and woods. We do mow the orchard, so there ae trees to go around.
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Post by Billie on Apr 30, 2015 4:59:47 GMT
Umm, about 4 to 5 hours. That does not include weed eating or trimming. Only do that every 3 weeks or so.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 6:28:55 GMT
About 2.5hrs with the lawn tractor if i don't mow around fences ,DH weedwacks when he gets around to it. If it was up to me i'd fence the whole place in and let the cows mow ?
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Post by tenbusybees on Apr 30, 2015 10:22:17 GMT
Our teen boys do most of the mowing....about an hour everyday.
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Post by wolfmom on Apr 30, 2015 11:12:52 GMT
Riding mower is in the shop. After an hour of weed wacking, I quit. I have a 14" electric mower for the hillside that's too steep for the riding mower, but that takes so long to mow any sizable area, I'm not going to use it.
Front has a huge ancient elm so there's no sun, consequently little grass - am in the process of turning it into a moss lawn - needs mowing once a year!!
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Post by whisperwindkat on Apr 30, 2015 11:31:50 GMT
Riding mower is in the shop. After an hour of weed wacking, I quit. I have a 14" electric mower for the hillside that's too steep for the riding mower, but that takes so long to mow any sizable area, I'm not going to use it. Front has a huge ancient elm so there's no sun, consequently little grass - am in the process of turning it into a moss lawn - needs mowing once a year!! Tell me more about the moss lawn. Our front lawn is like that because of the oak trees.
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Post by whisperwindkat on Apr 30, 2015 11:33:05 GMT
I spend about an hour mowing. The front and back yards don't have much grass anymore because of large oak trees and the driveway is mowed mostly by the livestock. I just have to tidy it up. Blessings, Kat
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Post by wolfmom on Apr 30, 2015 11:55:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 12:03:14 GMT
None, my husband does it. I am not sure in hours how long it takes. We have a lot of raised beds and trees for him to go around. He uses an electric mower with a bag and empties the bag out for our horses, who nicker when he starts up the mower. Depends on the sun, to how fast he gets it done since the batteries (he has 4) are on the charger charging, and as each one gets charged he changes the one that he just used.
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Post by ceresone on Apr 30, 2015 12:23:14 GMT
About 7--8 hours--and I dont usually get much trimming done. Wish my rider had a trimmer I could just ex tend when I need it
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Post by Jolly on Apr 30, 2015 12:28:42 GMT
About a half-day. I start out with a G Kubota and a 48" deck for around the house and then pick up the string trimmer. When I get that done, I crank up the tractor and bush-hog around the garden and part of my field.
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Post by mzgarden on Apr 30, 2015 12:32:23 GMT
DH and I work together and get it done in about 1.5 hours/week during the growing season. Garden Tractor with a belly mower for me - he has a brush cutter he uses to edge and get the corners I can't get in with the tractor. We have made it harder on ourselves by putting in obstacles so we're going back and 'rounding out' the squared off corners and trying to figure out what to do in the orchard so we don't have to mow.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 12:33:25 GMT
It takes me almost exactly four hours, including weed eating. I have a lot of edge so the weed eating is more than 50%.
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Post by susannah on Apr 30, 2015 14:07:01 GMT
About two hours with the lawn tractor (and push mower for the sides of the hill in front - dh uses the lawn tractor for it but I have this fear of falling). We're one of the only houses with so much lawn on this street. Most other lots are more natural - clearings in the woods but pretty much all woods. We have a nice big lawn in the middle of our woods. Believe me, I'd rather it was natural but that wasn't the preference of the prior owner.
The deer do try to help with cutting down on how much mowing I need to do, but there's only so much grass that herd can eat. And we have way more lawn than that.
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Post by Callie on Apr 30, 2015 15:12:59 GMT
2 hours each week for the rider to do the front and back lawns as well as around the fruit trees. Longer when I bag the grass in the spring. I do around the pasture fences separately and a little at a time- not sure how long that takes. I'd say at least another hour a week.
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Post by Maura on Apr 30, 2015 15:23:06 GMT
When I had sheep and donkeys I just rotated them onto the lawn.
Now, I have to use a mower, so I am looking at probably an hour.
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Post by Ozarks Tom on Apr 30, 2015 19:02:11 GMT
About 3 1/2 hours, plus 45 minutes weed eating. When we moved here the back 3 acres was barren, so we planted over 100 trees, without a zero turn mower it would take me all day. You'd think 17 sheep would keep 3 acres eaten down, but oh no, have to mow every week.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 19:48:49 GMT
None, as I have a robot mower. It's the most helpful (but also the most expensive) thing I bought within the last five years.
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Post by hobbitlady on Apr 30, 2015 19:52:54 GMT
No mowing, just weed whacking. I consider lawn a waste of space since we are in a partly dry forest and rural area anyway and don't need lawn for "looks" or a party or kids area either.No need for a lawn of any kind here. I've tried to get wildflowers and clover to grow where there was just grass, for the bees. DH spends 3 days (an hour or two each) a couple of times in Spring to get down what we have so the pollen doesn't "get" my One allergy later on (grass/hay)!
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Post by Wendy on Apr 30, 2015 19:58:48 GMT
My sons usually mow & it takes them 2-3 hours. All with a push mower. We have a lot to trim around & a push mower is just easier.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2015 1:17:43 GMT
About an hour with a small lawn tractor. I have gates at the end of the drive, shut those and then the livestock does the driveway.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2015 4:02:20 GMT
Lots of time, if I had to do it all in one stretch, I'd say 7 hours on the tractor, then 4 hours on the weed eater. But I got a lot of trees and I'm located adjoining forest land. It all wants to creep in on my place.
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Post by manygoatsnmore on May 2, 2015 3:40:51 GMT
a few hours a few times a month during the summer - I let the horse and chickens do most of the work for me, just clean up behind them.
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Post by whisperwindkat on May 2, 2015 9:55:36 GMT
I am officially in love with moss yards now.
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Post by dodgesmammaw on May 3, 2015 4:14:37 GMT
We live on the lake so it depends on the amount of rain received. Before the recent rain it was taking about 2 hours about every third day. Just got a 52 inch cut zero turn mower. We think we are in heaven. Can knock it out in a hour. They really are worth the cost.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2015 20:51:33 GMT
HOLY COW!! From now until Sept. that's about all I do is mow. A Ford 5000 with a 6' bushhog for the big horse pastures, a ford 1210 with a 4' for the small pastures, a John Deer lawn tractor with 54" belly more for the yards and a push mower and string trimmer for the fences and small areas. Whew...I'm tired just talking about it.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 1:10:38 GMT
Way to much. But I need to keep the wild life habitat some what contained. I mow at least 100ft our from the house to keep mice and snakes away. Short grass helps keep the ticks down to so I mow bout an 8ft wide path around the perimeter which is almost a 1/4 mile total. Finished today just as the rain started. I mow about 8hrs a week average. My grass is growing 2 to 6 inches a week. I swear its on steroids with this rain. Great for the garden though.
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