Mowing in the rain

[Chuck52]

To the tune of singing in the rain.

I last mowed on Wednesday, May 7, if that date is correct. We went back to Tennessee for Mom's 90th birthday, and since we've been back I either had to be at work or it has rained or both. The grass is now knee high to a giraffe. It isn't raining right at this moment, but the grass is wet from rain all yesterday and last night, and more is coming. I know I could hook up my 60" Brush hog finishing mower, which will cut in a swamp OK, but it would sure make a mess of the "lawn" around the house. So I am contemplating mowing with my 46" riding mower set at the highest level. I may just wait until Wednesday because it is supposed to not rain after Monday, but by then the grass will be several inches deeper. Decisions, decisions. Ok. The Sunday political discussion shows are over, and I am completely irritated as usual, so the thought of making grass smoothies is appealing. Here goes.

Chuck

 

[Thomas]

Also face same condition couple years ago,I raised deck high went back forth slowly than let sun and breeze do some drying..next day repeat,couple regular dates lawn look good..did notice how much lawn low/bare spots fill in during laps of mowing.

 

[jinman]

To the tune of singing in the rain.

I last mowed on Wednesday, May 7, if that date is correct. We went back to Tennessee for Mom's 90th birthday, and since we've been back I either had to be at work or it has rained or both. The grass is now knee high to a giraffe. It isn't raining right at this moment, but the grass is wet from rain all yesterday and last night, and more is coming. I know I could hook up my 60" Brush hog finishing mower, which will cut in a swamp OK, but it would sure make a mess of the "lawn" around the house. So I am contemplating mowing with my 46" riding mower set at the highest level. I may just wait until Wednesday because it is supposed to not rain after Monday, but by then the grass will be several inches deeper. Decisions, decisions. Ok. The Sunday political discussion shows are over, and I am completely irritated as usual, so the thought of making grass smoothies is appealing. Here goes.

Chuck

New show for The Discovery Channel: Swamp Mowers :laughing:

Sorry, I could only make fun because I don't have a good solution.:confused3:

 

[2manyrocks]

Yep, it you can't cut it in between rains, not so much fun. I got ours cut in between showers last night.

Also, I don't know why they want to ruin Sunday with the political yack.

There were days in the stock market when I wished it was closed so it couldn't get any worse, and there are days when I wish Congress couldn't be in session, either, for the same reason.

 

[warhammer]

Late last year I was mowing several acres of uneven ground and it started drizzling pretty good about 2/3rds of the way through. I kept going and got the mowing done a couple of hours later. That was the good news. The bad news was the tractor and bush hog were crusty with debris and mud by the time I was done. It took quite a while to get it out of all the cracks and crevices.

To the tune of singing in the rain.

I last mowed on Wednesday, May 7, if that date is correct. We went back to Tennessee for Mom's 90th birthday, and since we've been back I either had to be at work or it has rained or both. The grass is now knee high to a giraffe. It isn't raining right at this moment, but the grass is wet from rain all yesterday and last night, and more is coming. I know I could hook up my 60" Brush hog finishing mower, which will cut in a swamp OK, but it would sure make a mess of the "lawn" around the house. So I am contemplating mowing with my 46" riding mower set at the highest level. I may just wait until Wednesday because it is supposed to not rain after Monday, but by then the grass will be several inches deeper. Decisions, decisions. Ok. The Sunday political discussion shows are over, and I am completely irritated as usual, so the thought of making grass smoothies is appealing. Here goes.

Chuck

 

[Chuck52]

Well, as I was walking down to the barn to get the mower, I kept stepping in puddles and sinking over my shoes, so I put it off thinking I'd try for Wednesday, because the forecast called for the rain to end today and for dry until Friday. It rained all day yesterday, so I would literally have been mowing in a fairly steady rain. Now the forecast is saying no rain tomorrow, but starting again Wednesday and Thursday. Aaarrrrggghhhh! My daughter's father-in-law has goats. May have to borrow some.

Since I didn't mow, I had to find something useful to do, so I built a trellis for my pole beans and started turning a roll of remesh into tomato cages. It was my birthday and the roll of remesh was one of my presents. Aside from the weeds and puddles, the garden doesn't look too bad, even with the unrelenting rain. Birds were pulling my pole beans up, probably because they kinda look like worms when they first come up. It is so wet I just stick them back in the ground and they keep growing. I pulled up hundreds of volunteer tomatoes out of one of my raised beds and stuck a few of them in the ground elsewhere....they came up with intact rootballs, so I figure they will do fine. I was doing all that while the rain kept coming down. It wasn't too cold, and my boonie hat kept it off my glasses, so I at least got some of the outdoor stuff I needed to do done.

Anyone got an ark for sale?

Chuck

 

[dave1949]

Happy Birthday!

One of those old front mount sickle bar walk behind mowers is what you need. Just lay the grass down instead of making smoothies. How about a scythe?
Dave.

 

[dcyrilc]

Happy Birthday!

One of those old front mount sickle bar walk behind mowers is what you need. Just lay the grass down instead of making smoothies. How about a scythe?
Dave.

I was thinking a sickle bar mower and baler for the tractor. :laughing:

 

[czechsonofagun]

Tall wet grass calls for scythe. Really, it is the easiest way to do it. The water holds the grass together and lubes the blade and for you it's a healthy exercise and excellent for the spine:thumbsup:

 

[Chuck52]

Hmmmmm, scything about 4 acres. And here I was worrying about how I was going to get in shape for a charity bike ride my daughter wants me to do with her.

It is sunny today and the air compressor at work that I thought might eat my day seems to have decided to keep running after all. So, I'm taking off at lunch to go mow at least the grass around the house with my deluxe MTD riding mower. That thing may be a piece of junk, but it will cut tall wet grass. The main problem will be the windrows of clippings, but if they dry before it rains again I'll sweep them up to use as mulch in places where the weeds they carry won't be a problem. The lawn sweeper does a good job with that. I'm thinking I'll hook up the Bush Hog ATH for the rest of the mowing. It's slower, but it really spreads out the clippings, and I can drag it through the really wet spots out away from the house where I don't mind some ruts.

This is the second year for us with a really wet spring. Last year I only had to water a couple times the whole garden season, and I probably could have gotten away without that. Seems like we're not only getting warmer, we're also getting wetter.

Chuck

 

[czechsonofagun]

I sound like a show off - but I done it few times in my life. You start with the first light, before sunrise and get on it. It goes faster than you think and overall it's an amazing experience - with birds waking up and the sun coming.

 

[riptides]

I sound like a show off - but I done it few times in my life. You start with the first light, before sunrise and get on it. It goes faster than you think and overall it's an amazing experience - with birds waking up and the sun coming.

You didn't have a ball and chain around your ankles did you?

Or perhaps your political views were being re-focused?

On the serious side, I have done this, but not certainly on that amount of lot.

Mine is made of aluminum. A very nice tool. Unfortunate, I have not used it in quite a while, the weed-wacker just gets all the fun. Even though my tractor ran it over.

 

[czechsonofagun]

You didn't have a ball and chain around your ankles did you?

Or perhaps your political views were being re-focused?

On the serious side, I have done this, but not certainly on that amount of lot.

Mine is made of aluminum. A very nice tool. Unfortunate, I have not used it in quite a while, the weed-wacker just gets all the fun. Even though my tractor ran it over.

Maybe symbolical ball My dad done it all his life on weekends around our summer cabin, and when he couldn't do it for some reason it ended up on my plate Blade made in Austria - I believe it's the best production in the world - and handle made from ash. I am not a pro, the long grass is easiest to cut and you just need to keep swinging and not to think about the end and time.

Of course, I seen village old timers cut lawn I would not get straight with lawn mover - and make it look like golf course.

One think compare to weedwacker - it does not spray you with plant juice.

 

[Chuck52]

I've only used a scythe years ago to clean a fence row. I think the farmer gave me the scythe so he could laugh at my efforts. These days a good scythe would probably cost a lot more than a weed whacker.

I used to work at the University of Puerto Rico. The grounds keepers there used long machetes to do the trim work. There were lots of ground keepers and they were in a union. I can't remember ever seeing a weed whacker on campus.

Chuck

 

[jayste]

I used to work at the University of Puerto Rico. The grounds keepers there used long machetes to do the trim work. There were lots of ground keepers and they were in a union. I can't remember ever seeing a weed whacker on campus.

Chuck

Or you probably didn't have much crime either!:laughing:

 

[Chuck52]

Or you probably didn't have much crime either!:laughing:

You missed the part about union. The groundskeepers were not allowed to do any police functions.

Strikes were always fun there. If any group called for a strike, everyone would join in. The Gringo faculty could sometimes cross the lines because we were....well Gringos, and everyone knew about Gringos and their nasty habits. All other faculty, staff and students were kept off campus until whatever caused the strike was cleared up or forgotten or someone was paid off.

Chuck

 

[jayste]

You missed the part about union. The groundskeepers were not allowed to do any police functions.

Strikes were always fun there. If any group called for a strike, everyone would join in. The Gringo faculty could sometimes cross the lines because we were....well Gringos, and everyone knew about Gringos and their nasty habits. All other faculty, staff and students were kept off campus until whatever caused the strike was cleared up or forgotten or someone was paid off.

Chuck

Ha! Politics, Puerto Rican style! Sorry, I guess campus police was a different union?

 

[Chuck52]

Ha! Politics, Puerto Rican style! Sorry, I guess campus police was a different union?

About the only thing I ever figured out about the unions there was that I was not in one.

I finally did get my grass mowed last Tuesday or Wednesday....can't remember which. It needs it again, of course. What imbecile invented lawns anyway? I need a better, faster grass cutter, but it galls me to have to spend big bucks for a machine that just cuts grass. You can't even eat the stuff! I use some of the clippings as mulch around trees, but I quit using them in the garden because of all the weed seeds. Composting them is probably the way to go, but I generate hay stacks worth.

Chuck

 

[RadarTech]

New show for The Discovery Channel: Swamp Mowers :laughing:

Sorry, I could only make fun because I don't have a good solution.:confused3:

Swamp mowers?-- hmm I have seen Swamp buggy races on the CMT..

 

[Johndeere3720]

Hmmm, mowing in wet conditions, where have I experienced that. I can say that I havent yet this year got to mow "dry" grass. In NW Oregon, it rains a LOT so I just wait for a break in the clouds and get the mowing done. Lately, ive been mowing down a lot of brush and small scotch broom. Almost 4 hours in 2 days.:thumbsup: