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4.5 acres to mow? Raise a beef instead. Smart!
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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I usually mow quite a few acres but this year I decided to let about 2-3 acres left unmowed. Deer love it. I don't know what they're eàting but they're in my yard every night like clockwork. It's cool watching the fawns get bigger.
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BTW my mower is a JD X495 diesel with a 60 inch deck. It's a good machine but I wish for a zero turn.
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In the context of "lawn", most anything as long as it’s a zero turn. I’ve delegated my old rider to pulling a small yard trailer back and forth from the garden and small clean up jobs.
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Campfire Oracle
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4.5 acres to mow? Raise a beef instead. Smart! I wouldn't mind. But fencing costs money. Besides, my wife would make a pet of it.
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Nuff said.....chortle On a serious note, we don't waste much grass mowing except for ditches and trails.
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2003 Exmark 54” that I’ve treated like a bush hog. Just keeps on rolling. I’d buy again. So easy my kid can do it.
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Cattle mostly. Few horses. Two Servis brush hogs a New Holland swather a JD ZT to trim around the edges. There's a little self propelled Husky push mower out back used to mow around the raised garden beds. Mostly we encourage a cow critter to keep it clipped back. Saves fuel.....
One man with courage makes a majority....
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Knobbies on an Exmark.
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4.5 acres to mow? Raise a beef instead. Smart! I wouldn't mind. But fencing costs money. Besides, my wife would make a pet of it. Funny story, a guy I knew that had a few highlander cows in a field that he always kept finishing mowed. He was at the co-op buying grain one day when his neighbor was there. The neighbor asked him, "you do know them cows will eat that grass if you just quit mowing it don’t you?"
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John Deere 950 compact with a rear mounted Woods RM90 finish mower. Deere 345 54" for the yard most of the time. Picked up a Simplicity Landlord 54" early this year in excellent condition at a very reasonable price. The thing worked perfectly until last weekend when the Kohler motor threw a rod. 🤬
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Grasshopper 900D for most work JD 425 for the slopes that the Hopper can't stick to
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Scag 61" Tiger Cat, or 8' brush hog for the tractor.
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GRAVELY
John Deere SUCKS!
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Even birds know not to land downwind!
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If it is a small push type gasoline lawnmower,when looking,see if it has an oil drain plug. I bought one from Tractor Supply and you have to turn the mower over and drain the oil thru the fill hole.
I also have a 60" brush hog for my Kubota and 48 inch rider by Craftsman. I should have checked on that when I bought it too. It only has two blades and in heavier grass, it misses a center section. Always go with3 blades.
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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if you spend more than a hunnert, you're wasting your money Chortle. Did you get that deal of yours to run? I was planning on congratulating you, but lost track of that thread....
Carry what you’re willing to fight with - Mackay Sagebrush
Perfect is the enemy of good enough
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Knobbies on an Exmark. Those should be the ticket for a pond bank.
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On a serious note, we don't waste much grass mowing except for ditches and trails. You sure you got enough horsepower to run that cutter, Sam?
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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! only mow a couple acres, just bought a Bad Boy Magnum MZ 54" at start of cutting season, it's holding up perfect, but of course, it ought to! Wish I had stepped up to their first model that has suspension, I think a ZT Elite 60", but it was 2K more. Gel ass cushion helps.
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