TIME TO MOW THE LAWN

Wobbie

don’t think the Ego could have tamed this...

The Juggler

Wob, how often do you get to play that course? 

Wobbie

The Juggler said:

Wob, how often do you get to play that course? 

The Juggler said:

Wob, how often do you get to play that course? 

I could play every day if I wanted to.

70 degrees  today. Perfect weather!

darwinstheory

Highly recommend this bad mofo. Pulled the aerator today. Step one sometime this week. Haven't had rain for over a week. But we did get snow 3 days ago. No major chance of rain in the 10 day either. 

mcgruff10

Wobbie said:

mcgruff10 said:

eeriepadave said:

I live in an apartment so no need for one but i keep seeing commercials for the Ego Lawnmower. Looks ok not sure how it is though.

I have an ego leaf blower and weed wacker, both work great.   I was tired of mixing gas/oil. 

call it a “string trimmer.” more professional.

I cut lawn for 15 years, we always called it a weed wacker however we weren't that professional.

mcgruff10

What's everyone's schedule for fertilizer/seed?
This year i'm going with:

Crab grass preventer in March.
Weed n feed Mid May.
Crab grass preventer late June.

Sprinklers are on 3-4 days a week 20/minutes zone.

I usually seed in the fall.

hedonist

You all make me miss my dad. 

F Me In The Brain

I hold off from mowing until it looks awful and then I mow as infrequently as I can.

darwinstheory

mcgruff10 said:

What's everyone's schedule for fertilizer/seed?
This year i'm going with:

Crab grass preventer in March.
Weed n feed Mid May.
Crab grass preventer late June.

Sprinklers are on 3-4 days a week 20/minutes zone.

I usually seed in the fall.

Pretty much the same as yours. Only I'm a bit behind in getting the crabgrass preventer down this year. Great weather this weekend and upcoming week with rain not likely. Weather isn't playing nice.

Also aerated today. Dethatch in a few weeks after my 3rd mow. Lively dethatch again prior to laying seed down later in the year.

Wobbie

mcgruff10 said:

Wobbie said:

mcgruff10 said:

eeriepadave said:

I live in an apartment so no need for one but i keep seeing commercials for the Ego Lawnmower. Looks ok not sure how it is though.

I have an ego leaf blower and weed wacker, both work great.   I was tired of mixing gas/oil. 

call it a “string trimmer.” more professional.

I cut lawn for 15 years, we always called it a weed wacker however we weren't that professional.

among the part timers, I’m the only one at the golf course who gives a shit about what they’re doing.

The Juggler

mcgruff10 said:

What's everyone's schedule for fertilizer/seed?
This year i'm going with:

Crab grass preventer in March.
Weed n feed Mid May.
Crab grass preventer late June.

Sprinklers are on 3-4 days a week 20/minutes zone.

I usually seed in the fall.

Whenever the lawn people show up to put it down. 

Do you have a sprinkler system in your yard?

The Juggler

I went with the Honda. First mow was yesterday. This mower has a cool feature that lets you control how much you mulch/bag. I set it about half and half yesterday. Seemed to work well. 


I will need a new striper though. My old one doesn't fit well with Honda's. 

F Me In The Brain

Had our tree guy here this morning.  F lawns, F landscaping, F trees.

Need two-three more very large trees removed.

Slowly removed almost all of the trees from our yard, by necessity.  What looked like a really great backyard now looks like a yard with a pool in it.

Great.

Fall time is when you plant new trees -- wonder what fixing this all if going to cost us.

darwinstheory

Sorry to hear F Me. Lawncare/scaping is a constant work in progress. A having trees taken down is a huge difference maker and you can't do much about it. New trees take so long to develop. And trees of any significant size are outrageously expensive. 

F Me In The Brain

darwinstheory said:

Sorry to hear F Me. Lawncare/scaping is a constant work in progress. A having trees taken down is a huge difference maker and you can't do much about it. New trees take so long to develop. And trees of any significant size are outrageously expensive. 

Yup -- one of the last ones was 5k before the stump removal, which took place later (insurance covered the tree removal but not the stump) and was another $1,200.

People with proper tools, equipment, teams, and insurance are crazy expensive.

They just came and took 2 small trees down to the bottom (arbor vitaes, nothing crazy) and it was $275.  Took them all of 20 minutes to take and buzz them up so we can have the landscaping team in to clean/open our yard for spring.

All a money pit!

When we first looked years ago to find what company we wanted to use for this stuff we had some people show up w/o insurance...once a guy gave me his car insurance, another his basic business insurance....laughable shit.  Sure I could get it done for far less but I am not getting sued for some dude falling 50 feet to his death in my backyard or chopping off his arm.

mcgruff10

The Juggler said:

mcgruff10 said:

What's everyone's schedule for fertilizer/seed?
This year i'm going with:

Crab grass preventer in March.
Weed n feed Mid May.
Crab grass preventer late June.

Sprinklers are on 3-4 days a week 20/minutes zone.

I usually seed in the fall.

Whenever the lawn people show up to put it down. 

Do you have a sprinkler system in your yard?

Yes, six zones.  

Wobbie

F Me In The Brain said:

darwinstheory said:

Sorry to hear F Me. Lawncare/scaping is a constant work in progress. A having trees taken down is a huge difference maker and you can't do much about it. New trees take so long to develop. And trees of any significant size are outrageously expensive. 

People with proper tools, equipment, teams, and insurance are crazy expensive.

When we first looked years ago to find what company we wanted to use for this stuff we had some people show up w/o insurance...once a guy gave me his car insurance, another his basic business insurance....laughable shit.  Sure I could get it done for far less but I am not getting sued for some dude falling 50 feet to his death in my backyard or chopping off his arm.

this is what improper tools, no insurance looks like:




got ‘er done, though.

F Me In The Brain

Yeah -- you are fucking nut, dude.

Father in law asked me last week if I wanted his old chain saw.

Nope.  Pay people to do that shit, I am not that guy.  I'd break my damn neck or cut my arm off.  I'm game for hard work and for trying...but something would go very wrong if I tried to do this work. 

Only 5k for what the wife and I both thought would be 8-10k. 

Sucks when you are excited to only pay five grand to make your yard look worse!

The Juggler

And we’re MOWING from the big house tonight 

F Me In The Brain

You always make it look good.
I think I need to mow the front lawn tomorrow morning for the first time.  
The kid should be old enough to mow next year at 7/8.  Lol.

mcgruff10

Looks great juggler!  Cut for the first time  yesterday, definitely need some weed and feed.  

Wobbie

strong work, juggler!

you like the striper, huh? our fairway mowers have those rollers.

The Juggler

Wobbie said:

strong work, juggler!

you like the striper, huh? our fairway mowers have those rollers.

Love it. You use that same Toro kind?

Wobbie

if y’all are ever in the market for a string trimmer, this unit is the shit. I use it hours on end and it just runs and runs. 4 stroke, so no oil mixing and quieter than a 2 stroke.

and, yes, I’m the honey badger....don’t give a shit (about golfers).

The Juggler

mcgruff10

The Juggler said:

That s some serious cutting patterns right there!

F Me In The Brain

Juggler at full attention

darwinstheory

F Me In The Brain said:

Juggler at full attention

🤣🤣

The Juggler

darwinstheory said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Juggler at full attention

🤣🤣

I was pretty stoked about those stripes

darwinstheory

The Juggler said:

darwinstheory said:

F Me In The Brain said:

Juggler at full attention

🤣🤣

I was pretty stoked about those stripes

I completely understand! 25 years ago it was trying to watch through the squiggly lines once we got cable television. Now...lawn stripes!!