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Claus 
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 2:33am |
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 6:23am |
Waaaay too much grass to cut, rather have 'green side down' and grow veggies, especially with the cost of gas and food going up DAILY !
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 6:35am |
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Gotta agree, waaaay too much grass and it's looks like it was already mowed the day before. I cut my grass like I cut my hair. You know when it been done. Why do it if no one notices.
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Orange Blood
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 7:27am |
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Wow, and I thought picking corn at 6 MPH was fast?!?!? :-) Hey it is clear he has more money than I will ever have, and if that's how he wants his "yard" to look, it is clear he needs that mower, I couldn't imagine doing it with anything smaller.
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FloydKS
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 7:37am |
It was a nice ''under the mower'' shot to start though :)
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Pat the Plumber CIL
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 8:31am |
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That's a lot of grease zerks to take care of.The 20 something zerks on my 6' woods finish mower take long enough.I rather be mowing than greasing.I could not even turn that thing around in my yard.Thats a lot of blades to sharpen also.
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Burgie
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 8:35am |
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Well, the tractor will run the mower BUT will it mow grass?
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DMiller
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 9:41am |
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A 16' batwing and a 80hp tractor for when it gets too long or a disc mower and a baler when you want to make some money off it!
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Unit3
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 9:43am |
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12 caster wheels zirts, 8 drive shft zirts, 9 blade bearing hubs with zirts. By the time I could get it all regreased up, it would be time to mow again.
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JeffHillNC
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 10:18am |
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There's a sod grow about 6 miles from me that uses a 5 deck rig that looks like a dragonfly when folded up. They keep the grass cut but about a week before harvest they put a cut on it so it looks like a golf course.
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Bob(FL)
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 11:17am |
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this guy might want to wait a few days or a week before he mows the grass so he can tell where he has mowed.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 12:05pm |
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When I was a kid we had a neighbor that mowed every other day unless it was raining. They had a comparable yard to this guy size wise. I remember Dad commenting about how he wore out several engines in a 1450 Cub Cadet.
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Steve M C/IL
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 2:05pm |
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My wife would KILL to be that guy!Needles to say, I get very little seat time on the mower.Not complaining,mind ya.
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Charlie175
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 2:59pm |
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Pull type rotary mower will be more cost effective? They mow the golf course rough with them.
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 3:39pm |
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If he waited 3 weeks to mow he wouldn't have enough power to pull it. Bill
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hillmonkey
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 3:54pm |
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$40,000 worth of rig and $ 1 worth of string to operate the rear deck?? musta teamed up with ford on that brilliant idea. (flame suit is on flame away). hm
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Claus
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 4:00pm |
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$40,000 worth of rig and $ 1 worth of string to operate the rear deck?? musta teamed up with ford on that brilliant idea. (flame suit is on flame away). hm
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Isn't the string just to lock or unlock the decks when you fold them up for transport?
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Claus
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 4:15pm |
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Just for the record that tractor is a Deere 4720, Turbo Diesel, 50 PTO HP, not your average garden tractor.
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JeffHillNC
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Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 4:36pm |
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Yea, the guys around here with sod farms use orchard model kabota's to pull the mowers. They are little hotrods, 50 and 60hp models with full cabs and A/C. When I worked at the Ford/NH dealership about an hour from home I worked on alot of them cause of the blueberry farms out on the coast.
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