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My new toy!

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Had two electric lawn mowers die on me last weekend leaving me with a back lawn the SAS could use for jungle training.  My better half popped out this morning and come back with this.


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my first petrol mower and I love it.  Grass back to a nice medium cut, to low and it would be straw in this heat.......


Still needs weathering up and possibly a tri colour camo scheme but for now, it looks like I cannot get out of cutting the grass anymore.
 
Makes it a lot easier dont it. Dont cut the grass to short. short grass is a breeding ground for weeds. Keeping it a bit longer will strengthen the grass and choke out the weeds. (if you have any.


Our green bits are more moss and weeds than grass!!!  >:(
 
Nice one, I only have a small area and the electric does for that, all the rest is maintenance free, I.E pebbles :)


Have fun and make sure you start it up at 6 in the morning during the summer to wake the neighbours up :D
 
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eddiesolo said:
Nice one, I only have a small area and the electric does for that, all the rest is maintenance free, I.E pebbles :)


Have fun and make sure you start it up at 6 in the morning during the summer to wake the neighbours up :D
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No danger of that lol.  My neighbors are up well before I am  :D
 
Got the same mower bought it a month ago but due to your weather only used it yesterday , great aint it... :D
 
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bazers said:
Got the same mower bought it a month ago but due to your weather only used it yesterday , great aint it... :D
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I am very happy with it Barry.  I was a bit unsure when I read some of the reviews while better half went and got some oil and petrol (I think she thought it came with some  :/ ) but it started first time and, due to my buggered knees, it proceeded to drag me round the garden at a slightly faster walking pace than I am comfortable with  >:( . Still, by the time I had finished the back and smaller front lawns, I was getting the hang of it xD
 
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colin m said:
Only until you retire......!
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I believe it is a prerequisite of retirement that you are obliged to get up earlier even though there is no logical reason for doing so.  That is why my neighbors are about before me, they are all retired!  Anyone know why?
 
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I believe it is a prerequisite of retirement that you are obliged to get up earlier even though there is no logical reason for doing so.  That is why my neighbors are about before me, they are all retired!  Anyone know why?
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Probably needed a wee.
 
Beats me then. I'll have to wait 19 years and find out for myself.......................
 
Been retired six years now and i find if i get up early for a wee cant get back off to sleep again, probably thinking about what i am going to model next. :| .


p s 8 :00 thats the middle of the day for me.
 
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bazers said:
Been retired six years now and i find if i get up early for a wee cant get back off to sleep again, probably thinking about what i am going to model next. :| .


p s 8 :00 thats the middle of the day for me.
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So why is it then that retired people get up much earlier than when working?  Is there something that makes getting up for work so horrible we just don't want to do it?  I don't know but after one week tomorrow, I will start to find out  :D
 
Since stopping work, I am up most days at around 6am some days before. Why....


Bugger all on the TV worth watching, (still no hobby room ! ) so early to bed. 


I have a ride on as well Brett. Makes it so much more fun to cut the grass don't it :-)
 
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Oooooo, wish my lawn was big enough for a ride on........
 
I have two "walk behinds" for trim work but with over 15 acres of lawns between our three houses on the "compound" as we like to call it riders are essential. My two sons work long and hard hours and when the week end comes it's family, fishing ,hunting or what ever, certainly not ground work. That's left up to me along with many other tasks out and about. This year we pulled about a hundred tons of timber from the mountain, sold about 75 tons and kept around 25 tons for personal use (fire wood) which should last us around 3 winters, then it's start all over again. Sometimes I wish we had just a little patch in a nice "seniors" community but the Missus says I would just curl up and die without being able to disappear into the "bush" something that distresses her at times especially when I'm out there alone but I've always managed my way back ^_^
 
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