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Post by noreally on May 6, 2015 1:24:58 GMT
I live in a very dry area, if it's green or even slightly green there is some critter that will eat it! So no mowing at all. I own a weed eater but it is very seldom used.
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Post by Awnry Abe on May 6, 2015 2:21:43 GMT
I upgraded to a Scag Turf Tiger last fall. I haven't gotten to use it yet. Every month or so, though, I have a pretty heavy weed-wack session. Like Willowgirl says, it is complicated.
Pastures, on the other hand, are a different story. My summer days and nights are filled with 2-4 hour long sessions mowing with a big batwing. I just noticed a few paddocks with seedhead. It is time...
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Post by graywolf on May 6, 2015 5:05:58 GMT
We only mow the "lawn" 2 or 3 times a year. The "lawn" is just mowed weeds among the trees and is the 10 acres, or so, that is closest to the house. I run a 6' mower and Kathe runs a 4' one. It takes us a couple of days. As a matter of fact, the mowing happens to have started today.
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Post by bergere on May 6, 2015 11:52:22 GMT
This place is crazy. I have had small farms before... but never a place like this. I have to keep it mowed, to help the chickens keep the ticks away and give the poisonous snakes no place to hide.
I have to mow between 5 and 6 hours, every 4 days. Its killing me. I need a bigger riding mower and a wide gang real mower for the tractor.
Never fertilize the grass.. if anyone did... I would run away!!
With my wonderful old place in NW Oregon... much less grass to mow... no poisonous anything, so no worries if the grass got long. Even mowing the Monks place across the way..
only had to mow 2 hours a week. I miss that!
(Much of the so called lawn in Oregon, was Moss... I love moss!!) Won't grow here sadly..to hot.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 12:36:32 GMT
I upgraded to a Scag Turf Tiger last fall. I haven't gotten to use it yet. Every month or so, though, I have a pretty heavy weed-wack session. Like Willowgirl says, it is complicated. Pastures, on the other hand, are a different story. My summer days and nights are filled with 2-4 hour long sessions mowing with a big batwing. I just noticed a few paddocks with seedhead. It is time... You've had a Scag Turf Tiger since last fall and haven't used it yet!! O man! I would be going crazy by now. Do you at least ride it out to the mailbox or just go out to the shed every now and then to sit on it.  |
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Post by ohiodreamer on May 6, 2015 18:25:16 GMT
none - I have kids for that
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Post by stickinthemud on May 6, 2015 19:10:29 GMT
Drat, I guess this is my notice to get off my backside & go mow. lol
I'll let you know when I'm done.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 19:47:54 GMT
To much!!
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Post by stickinthemud on May 6, 2015 20:04:07 GMT
Oh for crying out loud. I find boots & gloves, get suited up. Add some gas to the tank. Sky is blue with puffy white clouds, and one slightly gray cloud. Start the mower, clean up some straggly grass I left near the shed last week. Mow along the driveway. Sun goes in- that gray cloud is overhead (all other clouds are still puffy white.) Did I feel a drop? See it on the mower. Just a few tiny drips. Keep mowing. More drops. Decide to clean up along the road first. Get halfway to the mailbox and it is raining--just misting drizzle, but enough to wet the grass thoroughly. I give up & come in. For now.
Oh and the sun is shining & all clouds are puffy, white & not overhead.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2015 21:06:59 GMT
We have a gate at the end of the drive, too. The garden and flower beds around the patio are fenced, everything else gets a haircut from the goats. We don't have any grass lawn. DS has a small back yard for Grizzly that he mows or weedeats, rakes and throws over the fence for the goats. He just has a little front area, driveway and flower beds inside his little compound, no grass out there. We do cut the meadow 2-3 times for hay and trim any tall grass the goats don't keep manicured....James
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Post by stickinthemud on May 7, 2015 12:29:13 GMT
Well, the grass dried enough to mow. I got about 1/4 the hillside done when the mower handle buckled. The special bolt/fastener had come loose & fallen off. After much searching I found the plastic wingnut near the driveway, far from where the handle finally fell apart. Spent a long time searching in the grass for the missing bolt. No luck.
This morning I discovered a tick in my hair. Fortunately it didn't seem to have blood in it & came off my head easily, with a flake of dandruff clenched in its mouthparts.
So answering the OP--looks like it will take days.
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Post by here to stay on May 7, 2015 13:28:09 GMT
After about a half hour putting up plant protection around the roses and thornless berries, nothing more as the horses graze it down. We-ell, maybe another half hour picking up poop piles at the end of the 2-3 day "mowing" period.
It's not a labor issue but a I-can't-stand-to-waste-good-grass-without-precomposting-it-through-an-animal-first issue.
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