rswyan
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- Joined
- May 12, 2004
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- Location
- Northeast Ohio
- Tractor
- Kubota B2910, Cub Cadet Pro Z 154S, Simplicity 18 CFC, Cub Cadet 782
Lawn is far over rated.
I grew up in Essex Center, Vt. from ~1958 to 1973. My Dad and Grandfather bought a 30 acre parcel of the most beautiful land. Gently rolling, about 30 acres total. We [Grandfather (a master carpenter, former railroad Engineer), Dad (Mechanical Engineer at IBM), and I (gopher from age 12 up)] cleared and built a duplex for both the families over the course of about 3 years.
My Grandfather was addicted to LAWN. My Dad liked to hunt and fish, often with me.
Grandfather started with about half an acre of lawn tight to the house, enough to keep the bugs down. But then kept adding to it EVERY YEAR. My Dad mowed the lawn, starting with only a pushmower Craftsman 4HP lawnmower. But eventually moving up to a 15HP riding tractor as the acreage maintained expanded to about 5 acres.
During the summer he spent most of his "free" time mowing (this was before ZT's). He grew to hate it.
Since then I've always tried to keep my lawns minimal in size.
When we put the lawn in here, we had two walk-behind mowers ... both around 20" - 22".
One was self-propelled (a golden Murray IIRC), one wasn't.
Thankfully, the Old Man let me use the one that was self-propelled.
I was probably around 11 or 12 at the time.
We did that for a couple of years - including the entire front I've posted pictures of ... and I absolutely hated it.
That was before he got the IH 444 and the Imco 60" brush hog.
Once we had that, I was good with cutting the grass ... including the 8 acres of fallow field ... more seat time ...