Thoughts from the lawnmower seat
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Topic: Thoughts from the lawnmower seat
Posted By: Dirt Farmer
Subject: Thoughts from the lawnmower seat
Date Posted: 02 Jun 2024 at 10:41pm
| After several days working on my 22 year old lawnmower in between planting, more important repairs and rain, while watching the grass grow uncontrollably, finally got it running lastnight and began using it today, cant wait to start mowing the yard said no one ever in my household. Not a favorite pastime. As I'm trekking along I got to wondering what kind of grass am I gonna plant in our yard at our new home and wonder why is there no grass that grows to 3 inches and stops, technology has come a long ways with seed genetics, marvels of science and government trying to stay green would mean less trips across yard but that's a whole different conversion, Before I began mowing I had to charge the battery cause I had left the key on the night before. While mowing and thinking, I wonder why has no one ever put retractable cords on a battery charger, everytime I go to use it the first thing you have to do is unwind the cords then when you're done you wind them back up. Why not make them retract cause the box the charger consists of isn't near full with electronics. Something to ponder Well breaktime is over cause now I gots to go rake up my bunched up yard. |
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2024 at 4:27am
There is a grass that looks OK, unmown. Unfortunately it won't grow well if at all, north of a certain point (MD to PA, approximately) also won't grow at all in the shade, full sun only. Google Zoysia... ------------- Source: Babylon Bee. Sponsored by BRAWNDO, its got what you need! |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2024 at 4:33am
| And always the nasty Bermuda Grass, grows flat but tendrils out across ANY and EVERY thing, Concrete, rock, other plantings. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 03 Jun 2024 at 6:11am
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re: dead battery...BTDT..sigh I loan out 3 riders to neighbours. One usually has a 'no start' problem.....hmm key left on so.. I spent $3 and added a digital voltmeter into the dash. Key on = meter's ON !!! Nice BRIGHT display even in daylight. Bonus is actually seeing the 'numbers'. 12.xx at rest, 10.xx to start, 14.xx charging, then 13.xx when off. I used a rectangular one on that rider, though you can also get them in a round version. Best $3 I've spent in a long time. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2024 at 7:44pm
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Loan out lawnmowers??? I've never loaned anything that if and when it came back wasn't beat up like a rented mule and rarely did anything come back without me needing to go find it. I guess I'm one of the few people that will return something borrowed in better condition that when I got it. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 04 Jun 2024 at 8:43pm
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Well one neighbour is 101,actually the last Veteran I know, and his neighbour uses my machine. She's great. I needed the kitchen septic cleaned out last summer ,she came over PDQ to crawl under the deck to crawl under the addition to get TO the lid..back and forth 20+ times. I have no problem loaning them my riders !! On the other hand, I detest HAVING to help the next door neighbour. Don't get me going on 'him'. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Dirt Farmer
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:31pm
| Another episode of pondering while Im doing what I don't enjoy to take my mind off the task, go back 15-20 years ago before they cut out the sulfer in various exhaust outputs did anyone have to wash mold off of their house siding due to it being in the atmosphere. Back then we seldom added sulfer to fertilizer recipes. Forward to today we add sulfer and wash green mold off of our houses. Just a coincidence? |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2024 at 4:58pm
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worst thing we ever did for Farmers was shut down coal fired power plants... The sulfer and potash discharge would fertilize all the fields within 50 miles of the plant !! ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2024 at 10:35am
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Now we get chemtrails to kill us off! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: dr p
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 6:37am
| Actually you could plant white clover. I hate mowing the lawn more than anyone on this forum. I put the mower deck down low to kill the grass and made sure the ph was 7 and white clover took over pretty quick. I mow maybe 5 or 6 times per year. The only downside is the blossoms attract a lot of bees |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 8:28am
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downside ?? heck make a bee keeper HAPPY ! Let him put a hive or two on your land. Bees make honey, and you'll get a free jar or 2 or more !!! it's $8 a pint near me....... ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: resurrection20
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 10:27am
| Man, mowing is my favorite pasttime. There's nothing I like more than plopping on the mower and going around and around. The sound of the one cylinder engine, smell of exhaust and freshly cut grass, the views and time to just...think. It's a series of moments of pure process for me. The grass doesn't regrow fast enough for my tastes! |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 10:45am
I’ve always enjoyed mowing the lawn. Although currently don’t have a need for a riding lawn mower/garden tractor. Just a simple 21” Craftsman walk-behind. Do have a Craftsman garden tractor with 48” deck in the shed, been moving it from house to house for 10+ years, also a Hahn-Eclipse 200 riding lawn mower, which the same as the Allis-Chalmers Mow-bee. Been looking for an original Lawn-Boy, or Jacobson 2-stroke. Nothing like the aroma of a 2-stroke, with a bit of Marvel Mystery Oil added to the mix. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
resurrection20 wrote:Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 12:43pm
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Why do people get so ANAL about Clover in lawngrass? Clover makes it's own nitrogen that also feeds other plants nearby. I can think of many things in lawngrass many times worse than Clover. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 1:26pm
Simple Paul. It’s like my dad used to say. To make people like you ask questions. 
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Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2024 at 8:18pm
If you guys like mowing so much you can come and mow mine. ------------- '49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2 |