Coffee 5-19-12

Me too Rob, spent mostly all day outside mowing, trimming, and pruning bushes. If I had a nice flat piece of property like that I'd be plowing it with the 2N, poor old girl never gets to stretch her legs.

Wood'nCoal wrote: If I had a nice flat piece of property like that I'd be plowing it with the 2N, poor old girl never gets to stretch her legs.

How about you get a finish mower for the 2N and bring it up to try on my lawn? What you saw in the picture is about 1/3rd of it.

I'd have to switch to a set of turf tires (yes they are made that big), otherwise that nice smooth surface will be no more.

You could turn it into a putting green and mow it with this:

http://www.jacobsen.com/gplexiiigas

This piece of machinery is so damn expensive I can't even find a mention of the price anywhere online.

coalnewbie wrote:

The John Deere really does a nice job, I even took a picture to share:

Wow, nice lawn. Now remember to keep that look mow 4x daily with no time off for rain storms. I'll let you know when to ease off, it's usually in July.

I don't normally attempt to keep it looking that good. I usually mow 1-2x per week depending on how fast the grass grows. We are having a get-together at the house tomorrow, so I got a little more "fancy" this time.

coalnewbie wrote:Rob think of me during your house party - I think we move in different circles.

It seems that when it comes to lawn care - yes. The Woods Batwing took care of all the treasures in the tall grass, so now I mow with something else. I have no use for a Jacobsen, it is all yours.

coalnewbie wrote:Rob, we must be mowin' cousins. International 1086 with an Alamo/KIng 15' batwing - boy does that move grass. Indestructible but you would want to play cricket on the mowed surface. Bought it for $1500 at a town auction and bolted the slip clutch as the parts were too expensive. I just pray I don't hit anything bad.

I think dad paid $600 for ours at an auction...but I had to rebuild that clutch and replace every u-joint on it. It did all the ditches on 1000 acres for over 10 years before we retired it. In the end it was worth more in scrap than as a mower.

I always dreamed of owning acreage. After a year of mowing my measly 2 acres, I found out pretty quick that it's an expensive & time-consuming pain in the ass!

I can't imagine mowing that spread, Rob - I couldn't afford the fuel! I'd still love to own that though. I'd probably keep the grass pretty short by tearing it up with the Polaris.

Here's my little lawn from '08:

All this talk of mowing grass…it should be dry enough to get out and finish the tall stuff out back. I am on what is left of an old farm and the back fields I assume were old pasture ore something like that. Being at the foot of the mountain there are too many big rocks to till it from what I have seen. I mow it every couple of weeks with a woods RM660 and it looks just fine, especially from a distance. If you’re going to get that fancy Jacobson you better invest in some good turf as well, I doubt it would do a good job on my manicured weeds.

The yards around my house are old and have a lot of white clover. I like clover but it is a love hate relationship. It holds a LOT of moisture this time of year and dries up in drought but I actually like the patches of white flowers through the lawn and the bees do as well.

Wood'nCoal wrote:I'd have to switch to a set of turf tires (yes they are made that big), otherwise that nice smooth surface will be no more.

Wood’nCoal; put some R4s on the 2N for a compromise. I like them on the 4WD and they don’t rip up the grass. They may do OK on a 2WD also but I don’t know how well they would pull a plow. Assuming you have R1s on it now and you just want to mow Rob R.’s grass don’t worry about ripping up the turf, its not yours.

coalnewbie wrote:When we bought the farm the grass was 10' high and I ran into a buried car door and a huge roll of carpet on my first pass.

Coalnewbie; is Chester, NY anywhere near Kentucky or West Virginia?

SMITTY; was this you?

gaw wrote: ..... SMITTY; was this you? ..

That's why I don't drive anymore. Damn D.O.T. and their NO DRINKING policies! HMMPH!

SMITTY wrote:

gaw wrote: ..... SMITTY; was this you? ..

That's why I don't drive anymore. Damn D.O.T. and their NO DRINKING policies! HMMPH!

I was thinking about your tow truck excitement.