So, I Was Mowing the Lawn When................

[baboon]

Helling I'm doing towels & mopping. The wife mentions I have to much to do. Back when she was starting to show signs of slacking around the house I hired a cleaner for her. $80.00 is alot of money. Especially with Brandonomics 5.74 raising it ugly head.

 

[kyletxria1911a1]

I live in an old folk's community and, like @kyletxria1911a1, our grass cutting is done by others.

It's good to.be the king

 

[wakosama]

Used to have a HS kid do it very well. He graduated and moved to CO. Cultivates 'medicinal' plants for alot more. A church 'friend' borrowed my mower, used it as a rock crusher and lost the gas cap back in Feb. I don't attend there anymore. My trimmer was stolen a while back along with all my reloading tools and brass. So my nice neighbor recommended her lawn guy who did a great job... twice. Then he quit the lawn business. Now I sorta manage this burb lawn with the rock crusher and a pair of pawnshop clippers every couple of weeks. Won't win any HOA awards but I don't get anonymous letters either.

 

[baboon]

If it’s too much of a grade then use a weed eater. It’s not rocket science.

Times my fat lazy ass tries to weed eat from the mower. Spraying Insecticide & Pesticides are done from it.

I hook up the cart when I need to pick up fallen branches. Bought a snake stick to grab them up and toss them in

 

[Alan R McDaniel Jr]

Sometimes I think mowing, edging, trimming, weedeating, picking up branches, sweeping leaves, etc...

But, my yard looks really good...

A guy came by and told me he would do it for $200 a pop....

So now, I not only feel good about the way it looks but I feel like I'm making money in the process... oh, that guy probably won't be back around....

I can usually get the weedeating and edging done in about an hour and a half and two tanks of gas in the weedeater. The mowing takes another 3 hours. With the back and forth it's a good day's work... I lost 60# the first year we lived here... been keeping it off too... It beats the Hell out of pushing paper across a desk all day...

Where we lived before I was doing yards for three widows, one divorcee and a young guy named Matthew, free gratis. #1 wife asked me why I did his lawn. I told her, "Matthew works hard all day, every day. When he comes home he plays with his kids. Someday, Matthew will pay this favor forward."

Alan

 

[Fishkiller]

One helpful tip: if you’re married you want to always run the mower at full throttle and do not use ear plugs.

Thank me later.

Huh? I could not hear you please repeat

 

[popsgarland]

74 years old and finished mowing my yard about 45 minuets ago. I'll do the weed eating thing tomorrow.

Don't have a riding mower but I do have a walk behind one.

 

[EZ-E]

My tractor & 6' brushhog takes about 4hrs to do my place. But at least I get to play Sancho to the homeowners wife when I'm done.

 

[Maverick44]

Never turned one over but the back part of my prior home was the drainage area for several acres that went to a culvert. I've managed to get my mower stuck in the mud where it sat for a few days. My neighbor would enjoy the good laugh.

There's some areas of my property that's like that.

I have had to get the 4 wheeler and a logging chain more than once.

 

[Bozz10mm]

About to turn 74 and still doing my own yard work on one acre. Disassembled the darn riding mower last month to get to the cracked fuel tank to replace it. Had to take virtually the whole top half of the mower off, since the tank is under the seat. So I gotta get a few more years out of it. Traded the gas weed eater for a cordless electric 5 or 6 years ago. One less headache to mess with as far as fuel mixing and hard starting and weight and noise. Okay, 4 less headaches.

I have a dry creek running through the back property line that I do worry about getting too close to.

 

[V-Tach]

Never had any incidents with riding mowers......

But...when I was 14 or so, I was moldboarding a field with a Case 1170 and ran it in a little too deep and the next thing I saw was nothing but sky...........

Hit the clutch and the front end came down hard........damn near crapped my pants......

 

[billtool]

I was brush hogging a hill that was just too steep on a 47 8N with no weight rack in front. Crawling up it the front end started coming up and I was soon past the point of no return. My choices at that point were A- to jump of and let it flip over or B- abandon the seat, belly flop onto the cowling and hang on for dear life. I chose B. One of the few times in my life I was glad I was fat. Needless to say I mowed only down that hill after.

 

[gdr_11]

It's 5:45 am and I am getting ready to fire up the zero turn at 6 am and start mowing. Can't stand the heat after that

 

[striker55]

74 years old and finished mowing my yard about 45 minuets ago. I'll do the weed eating thing tomorrow.

Don't have a riding mower but I do have a walk behind one.

That's right split it up in this heat. Do the front one day, back the next and that's after riding 5 miles on my bicycle.

 

[Axxe55]

I just rebuilt the carburetor on the riding mower this morning, and then mowed for a while to see if it was fixed. I was surprised how much it grew in just two days since mowing it.

 

[Tnhawk]

74 years old and finished mowing my yard about 45 minuets ago. I'll do the weed eating thing tomorrow.

Don't have a riding mower but I do have a walk behind one.

At 73 I'm glad my yard isn't larger.

 

[oldag]

Prefer to mow my own yard. Done right and when working around my own house, I work cheap.

 

[Axxe55]

Prefer to mow my own yard. Done right and when working around my own house, I work cheap.

I couldn't afford someone to do the job that I do when taking care of my yardwork!

 

[Maxrobot]

Back in 1995, I was a reenactor extra in the filming of the Civil War movie "Andersonville" in Georgia. A stand-in for a one-legged soldier actor actually was missing both legs. I was the only one who came up and asked how it happened. He said he had both legs lopped off by a brush hog. Plus it happened while he was working on the far side of a lake and no one could get to him for a while. (The actor he stood in for had actually lost both legs in a car accident.)

 

[Aus_Schwaben]

I live in an old folk's community and, like @kyletxria1911a1, our grass cutting is done by others.

I hate to tell you this but that sounds like a normal community, you know, where parents have their kids cut the grass!