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Bartimus
| Posted on Friday, June 23, 2017 - 03:21 pm: |
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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: |
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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: |
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Just picked this up yesterday. I blame you guys.
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Ourdee
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 01:51 pm: |
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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! |
Hootowl
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 02:41 pm: |
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Bartimus
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 02:49 pm: |
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I see nothing to mow in that yard |
Hootowl
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 03:11 pm: |
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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. |
Fast1075
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 04:54 pm: |
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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) |
Ourdee
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 06:15 pm: |
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Pine trees will make a mess in the koi pond. |
Hootowl
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 06:18 pm: |
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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. |
1313
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 07:59 pm: |
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Just sayin'...
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! 1313 |
Buellish
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 08:09 pm: |
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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. |
Hootowl
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 09:17 pm: |
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Buellish
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 10:04 pm: |
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Now that looks peaceful. |
Etennuly
| Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2017 - 11:46 pm: |
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I would put some fighting bass in that pond! |
Pwnzor
| Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 03:03 pm: |
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TroyBilt from Lowes... was cheap and reliable.
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Brother_in_buells
| Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 04:51 pm: |
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http://petdiys.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DIY- Rabbit-Lawnmower-Cage.jpg |
Natexlh1000
| Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 05:03 pm: |
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I like the tonka truck wheels and special calibrated brick on the top. |
Hootowl
| Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 05:09 pm: |
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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. |
Zac4mac
| Posted on Monday, June 26, 2017 - 11:32 pm: |
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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. |
Rick_a
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 10:39 am: |
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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. |
Etennuly
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 11:34 am: |
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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. |
Rick_a
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 12:06 pm: |
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That's hilarious |
Court
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 12:08 pm: |
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>>>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 ! |
Hootowl
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 03:42 pm: |
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"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. |
Ourdee
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 03:48 pm: |
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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. |
Etennuly
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 05:27 pm: |
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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! |
Court
| Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2017 - 06:06 pm: |
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>>>>My plan works even better when ordering food in! I tried matches. Worked great for the intended purpose . . .but had nasty side effects.
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Rick_a
| Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2017 - 01:34 am: |
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Have you been on fire? It's not fun. |
Loose1
| Posted on Monday, August 07, 2017 - 09:06 pm: |
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My brother mows our yard with a 1954 moz-all. It's actually a rider but he doesn't have the trailer.
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