Cut the back 40 today. (Well…the back 1/8, if we’re talking acres.)
My knees and back both felt it. Big time. Too big time.
Said fuck it, went to the Big Box Hardware and bought a riding mower. It’ll be here in time for the next cut.
It’s just a little 13.5HP Bolens; won’t plow snow, but I’ve got a snowblower for that task. It WILL cut grass 26+ times a year, which will make my disposition that much sunnier.
MONDAY UPDATE: They delivered it at 10:45 and I had the lawn cut by 11:30. (Yes, it needed cutting AGAIN.)
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Hell, I bought a 17 hp/42″ cut, Murray automatic seven years ago. Then a couple of years back I bought a push reel mower for when I’m feelin’ froggy.
These days, that eco-friendly reel mower sits in the garage 95% of the time while I burn the shit out of 87 octane in the comfy mower.
I gained a lawnmower the expensive and old fashioned way — grew it from a baby into a teenager. Now it will not mow unless forced. It wines the whole time. My mower routinely misses spots, will not get close to anything and stops constantly.
It would have been cheaper to buy a rider…
The funny thing is that I used to be that lawnmower myself, HB. I was just telling my wife that when I was a kid, cutting the very same lawn I’m cutting now, it took all day (and sometimes two days, depending on how hot it was). Now I cut the whole thing in 90 minutes, tops.
The difference is that I used to cut for 15 minutes and go rest for an hour or more, and now I just cut till it’s done.