- Edger
- Whacker
- Mower
- Blower
- Whine to mizPullin about hiring a lawn service. (I think she’s finally starting to give on this one)
Just to be clear, we’re still talking about lawn care, right?
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- Eyeball the grass patch
- Say “nah, not yet”
- Week later, eyeball the grass patch
- Sigh heavily
- Drag out the mower and extension cord reel
- Mow
- Eyeball the edges
- Say “nah, fuck it”
- Put everything away
- Search ebay for napalm
What difference does it matter so long as the yard get’s done.
There is a special place in hell for those who trim first and do the rest of the lawn later. I cannot imagine in this day and age such a practice continuing. I would suggest that you dump the gf, burn your house to the ground, salt the earth, and spend the rest of your life in a monastery.
Around here (FL panhandle) the polite revvin’ up time is 7:30am. Better than an alarm clock.
I do push mowing first because it’s the hardest work for me - back and forth across the slope down into the ditch. Next, I’ll do the riding so I can relax and cool down, and I’ll finish with a quick bit of weed-whacking. Our lot is 3 acres, but less than half gets mowed, once you allow for the house, my gardens, and all the trees. Last time I did it, it took 2 anna half hours of hot, sweaty work.
The ‘three steps’ part I can kinda understand, but I’m with you on the four hours part.
We’ve got a decent amount of green space around the house, but not enough to bother with a riding mower (though several of our neighbors with only marginally bigger lawns have them).
Unless it’s stormed recently (like it did twice this week) and I’ve got to gather fallen branches off the lawn and chuck them into the woods, it takes me just over an hour, maybe an hour and 10 minutes, to mow the lawn. I weed-whack maybe every 3 weeks or so, and do edging maybe a couple times a year.
I can’t imagine having so much lawn that it would take me 4 hours each week to keep it in trim. How many acres does it take to require that much time, when you’re doing all but around the edges with a riding mower? I’d be letting some of it turn back to woods or meadow, putting in islands of shrubbery surrounded by mulch, installing a pool building or expanding a deck just above ground level - anything to cut back on mowing time.
How much faster is a riding mower than a push mower anyway, in terms of square feet mowed per hour? I assume a riding mower’s blade is 2-3 times the diameter of a push mower, which are typically 20-22 inches IME, so if the riding mower’s forward speed isn’t any faster than mine when I’m pushing my mower, that means the work goes 2-3 times faster with the riding mower right there.
I’m just glad this thread wasn’t what I thought, “lawn care” involving wax and pain and TMI.
Well, here in the Deep South you gotta get started early. I’m surprised the start of astronomical twilight hasn’t become the default socially acceptable start time in the humid south.
You know that movie with Vin Diesel on the planet where when the sun rises the ground just turns to flaming lava? Thats the image I get in my mind when contemplating mowing the lawn.