Mowing in the rain

[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: