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It's mowing season and how many acres do you have to mow
- Thread starter Jarrod38
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Same, pay my guy $45 and don't have to worry about hard work.
We have to mow around 3.5 acres which takes about 2 hours to mow when we have two working ridding tractors but we are down to one and now it can take 4 hours to mow. Want to buy a zero turn one but they cost a tad too much.
I think about half an acre to mow, and I have a a gas push mower
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I push mow for 1 hour a week and I fucking hate it. All my neighbors have lawn services, but I refuse to spend the money!
.9 acres, but all the front and side yards are mowed by our HOA, and we just took up the majority of our backyard with an in ground pool, so very little to mow :)
Live in an apartment now, and even growing up in the suburbs, I think the house I grew up in was only like an eighth of an acre for the whole lot, including the house. Mowing took like 10 minutes with a push mower. The idea of acres and riding mowers just feels crazy.
I have around 3 acres, but most of that is heavy woods, so only about an acre of it needs mowed, that takes me around an hour/hour and half. I use one of those four wheel drive honda push mowers, gets the job done and it isn't too tiring.
Don't have a lawn as I live in an apartment, but when I get a house down the line I'll definitely get a bot. After my parents got one, I could never see myself having to mow the lawn manually again.
Arond 2/3 acre myself, rest is woods.
Ego lawn mower gets the job done, if i keep up with the growth i can do it in a single battery.
Ego lawn mower gets the job done, if i keep up with the growth i can do it in a single battery.
Just bought a Toro Timemaster with a 30" cut. Cut my mow time down from hour and 30 mins to an hour.
I used to have to mow 2 acres, but since moving from home a while back I don't need to worry anymore.
Spending absolutely zero time on building maintenance so that I can fully focus on exciting non-minimum-wage activities instead? Dreadful.
That lack of green space that's just for ones self is the dreadful part to me. Claustrophobic concrete jungle.
He wasn't complaining about cutting down trees, he was complaining because the tree company wanted to charge him extra to keep his own damn wood.
Anyway we have 5 acres but 4 of it is hay so someone else mows and bales it. I mow the rest but my mower broke today. I'm less than pleased it has less than 24 hours on it and I will have to have had it serviced twice now.
Not much. About half an hour to do it, but that's is half an hour too much. I hate yard work with the intensity of a thousand suns.
What if I told you there are houses that don't have lawns
This is what I have as well. Really cut down my time mowing.
Have about an acre. Takes about an hour on the riding mower, can't even imagine doing that much area with a push mower like some in this thread. Getting grass to grow in the first place is half the problem, most of it is a mixture of weeds, various grasses and moss. Spent the spring aerating, liming, and fertilizing. Have also had to take down a bunch of trees, either because they fell or just died and were in awkward spots. All in all, mowing is the easiest job I have when it comes to property maintenance.
I live in a townhouse lmao.
However, I seem to live in the only townhouse in this neighborhood that has prickly, spiny ass bushes, so that's kind of a pain. It's unbelievable how quickly they grow.
The guys who do the grass and shrubbery around here are all hilarious to talk to, though, so it's cool when I come home and one of them is laying down mulch or whatever.
However, I seem to live in the only townhouse in this neighborhood that has prickly, spiny ass bushes, so that's kind of a pain. It's unbelievable how quickly they grow.
The guys who do the grass and shrubbery around here are all hilarious to talk to, though, so it's cool when I come home and one of them is laying down mulch or whatever.
I normally mow my parents and my grandmother's yards. Don't have my own. I always hate the idea of mowing until I actually do it and then I enjoy the alone time with my thoughts. It's actually really calming.
Reminder of how terrible gas powered mowers are for environment
"According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a new gas powered lawn mower produces volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides emissions air pollution in in in one hour of operation as 11 new cars each being driven for one hour."
http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environment.htm#environment
"According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a new gas powered lawn mower produces volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides emissions air pollution in in in one hour of operation as 11 new cars each being driven for one hour."
http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environment.htm#environment
I have a small lawn and I pay a company to mow it. I used to mow it myself with a push mower and it took about 30 minutes.
Single acre done with a push mower. I'll move to a ride on when my current mower dies, but I really don't mind using the self propelled Honda. This year has been easy in the northeast all things considered. We didn't have much of a spring (when I'm mowing every other day or every three days depending on rain) and once per week is all that's needed to keep things tidy. Last year we had steady rain up until August.
Been having a lot of fun with striping this year.
Been having a lot of fun with striping this year.
For those with 3-5+ acres, what do you all do with it? Horses? Goats? Chickens? Pool? Basketball court?