TIME TO MOW THE LAWN

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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    F Me In The Brain said:

    I have the landscapers to do their spring deal on Friday (they do all sorts of shit to the plants, trees, etc that I have no fucking clue about...add mulch and make everything nice) before I resume mowing duties. Killed me not to do it on Sunday though, the lawn looks ready for it. Also burns me to spend the money on the landscapers but I kill most shit I try to grow so I think this is going to be an annual necessity unless I can find someone to show me the way.

    So you only have them come out once a year and then you take over? I like doing that stuff myself, but I sure as hell am not an expert. I do have a service with Scott's to have them treat the yard about 6 times per year. They leave you a report card kinda thing when they leave. Yesterday they said my yard has a great color for this time of year and is very dense so it soaks up the water well. I felt like a proud parent. Haha

    If you don't mind me asking, what do you pay for the one time landscaping service? Might consider that next year
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,814
    Yes I pay for the one time service....and then I mow just as anyone would and cut back some of the shrubs as I guess they need to be cut back about halfway through the summer. [I am the only dude on my 'circle' that doesnt pay them to come every week and mows his own lawn.] Last year was $1300 and this year is just a tick more, cannot recall exactly how much.

    The Scott's guy came to my house last week and I dickered with him and then the landscaping company and go a price of $45 per visit for 6 visits per year and I am still toying with my decision on that. I love the idea that my grass would look better but the landscaping thing is really for all of the plants and shit that I have no clue about. They do mow the lawn but that is a throw in really...the money goes for dealing with all of the flowers & cutting back all of the bushes/plants/trees (not the big huge trees but the Japanese Maple, Cherry Tree and some fucked up Dinosaur Looking tree that the folks put in when the re-did the back yard before we bought it) and they take out all of the shit from the winter (which I could do but it is a nominal charge) and they do all of the mulching. (This is nice I like this part, I dont have a truck and/or anyone to help so this would take me a shitload of time.)

    I dont do it to keep up with the Joneses, I do it because for 20 years I wanted a house with a yard and I couldnt afford one in CA. Moving back east I could and so now I am back to doing shit I hated doing as a kid growing up on a huge place in VT and liking doing it. The majority of the work actually takes place in the back yard, which is fenced/treed in and nobody can see if except people over using the pool anyway.

    Do you think $1300 is a lot for it?

    The people that lived her before us had a great house but they were cheap -- we priced out some of the other service providers they had and every single quote we got back, regardless of service, was much higher than what we pay. So I think they got the cheapest folks in the book. (But they seem to do fine by me)
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  • JonnyPistachio
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    wait, you have a dinosaur tree! :D awesome.
    :))
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  • mickeyrat
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    WTF dude. My yard is still waiting for you to mow.
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,814
    JonnyPistachio said:

    wait, you have a dinosaur tree! :D awesome.
    :))

    I'll have to learn what it is called. To me it looks messed up but some other people who have large versions of this tree...it looks sort of like a brontosaurus or something.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    F Me In The Brain said:

    Yes I pay for the one time service....and then I mow just as anyone would and cut back some of the shrubs as I guess they need to be cut back about halfway through the summer. [I am the only dude on my 'circle' that doesnt pay them to come every week and mows his own lawn.] Last year was $1300 and this year is just a tick more, cannot recall exactly how much.

    The Scott's guy came to my house last week and I dickered with him and then the landscaping company and go a price of $45 per visit for 6 visits per year and I am still toying with my decision on that. I love the idea that my grass would look better but the landscaping thing is really for all of the plants and shit that I have no clue about. They do mow the lawn but that is a throw in really...the money goes for dealing with all of the flowers & cutting back all of the bushes/plants/trees (not the big huge trees but the Japanese Maple, Cherry Tree and some fucked up Dinosaur Looking tree that the folks put in when the re-did the back yard before we bought it) and they take out all of the shit from the winter (which I could do but it is a nominal charge) and they do all of the mulching. (This is nice I like this part, I dont have a truck and/or anyone to help so this would take me a shitload of time.)

    I dont do it to keep up with the Joneses, I do it because for 20 years I wanted a house with a yard and I couldnt afford one in CA. Moving back east I could and so now I am back to doing shit I hated doing as a kid growing up on a huge place in VT and liking doing it. The majority of the work actually takes place in the back yard, which is fenced/treed in and nobody can see if except people over using the pool anyway.

    Do you think $1300 is a lot for it?

    The people that lived her before us had a great house but they were cheap -- we priced out some of the other service providers they had and every single quote we got back, regardless of service, was much higher than what we pay. So I think they got the cheapest folks in the book. (But they seem to do fine by me)


    $1300 sounds steep. i'm assuming you have a shit load of landscaping. how many acres are you on? we are .33, I believe. $45 per visit is about what I pay for scotts. might be $50 or so. everyone I know who use them tell me it's worth it though.

    should be mulching this weekend. one of the things I want to do is build up a flower bed around our deck. right now its just grass around it. don't like the way that looks. thinking of adding about 2 feet deep of mulch around it then putting in some azalea bushes to take up the space
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  • The Juggler
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    g under p said:

    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace

    wow 4 acres....how long does that take you?
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    I love mowing the lawn. it's a cathartic experience. throw some tunes on and just zone out and focus on the grass for an hour or so.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace

    wow 4 acres....how long does that take you?
    When I rush 45 minutes, when I take my time to get perfection 1 hour and 15 minutes to mow. that mower is a speed demon. The edging with the trimmer takes forever because there's so much to do then i have to blow off the driveway which is around 450 feet. Total it takes 3-5 hours depending on how neat and pretty I want it to look. All the lots here are 5 acres or more with this community is ALL for horses. That's South Florida Palm Beach County.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    g under p said:

    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace

    wow 4 acres....how long does that take you?
    When I rush 45 minutes, when I take my time to get perfection 1 hour and 15 minutes to mow. that mower is a speed demon. The edging with the trimmer takes forever because there's so much to do then i have to blow off the driveway which is around 450 feet. Total it takes 3-5 hours depending on how neat and pretty I want it to look. All the lots here are 5 acres or more with this community is ALL for horses. That's South Florida Palm Beach County.

    Peace
    so you got one of these?

    image
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,814
    Yeah I grew up with 3 acres and it wasnt that it was such a big lawn it was the variety of hills and other spots where you needed to use the push mower and then the easy part where you could use the rider....but I didnt have a crazy thing like that ^^^
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace

    wow 4 acres....how long does that take you?
    When I rush 45 minutes, when I take my time to get perfection 1 hour and 15 minutes to mow. that mower is a speed demon. The edging with the trimmer takes forever because there's so much to do then i have to blow off the driveway which is around 450 feet. Total it takes 3-5 hours depending on how neat and pretty I want it to look. All the lots here are 5 acres or more with this community is ALL for horses. That's South Florida Palm Beach County.

    Peace
    so you got one of these?

    image
    Yup, looks almost exactly like that with an imprint of 48inches on the sides and back just newer looking than that one.

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    g under p said:

    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace

    wow 4 acres....how long does that take you?
    When I rush 45 minutes, when I take my time to get perfection 1 hour and 15 minutes to mow. that mower is a speed demon. The edging with the trimmer takes forever because there's so much to do then i have to blow off the driveway which is around 450 feet. Total it takes 3-5 hours depending on how neat and pretty I want it to look. All the lots here are 5 acres or more with this community is ALL for horses. That's South Florida Palm Beach County.

    Peace
    so you got one of these?

    image
    Yup, looks almost exactly like that with an imprint of 48inches on the sides and back just newer looking than that one.

    Peace
    does it have a hemi?
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    The Juggler said:

    g under p said:

    I mow 4 acres year round, just started twice a week. What I do without our Hustler commercial mower.

    Peace

    wow 4 acres....how long does that take you?
    When I rush 45 minutes, when I take my time to get perfection 1 hour and 15 minutes to mow. that mower is a speed demon. The edging with the trimmer takes forever because there's so much to do then i have to blow off the driveway which is around 450 feet. Total it takes 3-5 hours depending on how neat and pretty I want it to look. All the lots here are 5 acres or more with this community is ALL for horses. That's South Florida Palm Beach County.

    Peace
    so you got one of these?

    image
    Yup, looks almost exactly like that with an imprint of 48inches on the sides and back just newer looking than that one.

    Peace
    does it have a hemi?
    I don't know where they now have those smiley emoticons, if I knew where I'd certainly place one here.

    LOL that's the best I can do

    Oh twice twice last year I fell into our lake with the mower, that's why I never wear the seat belt. If That thing turns over and if you're trapped under it, well cancel Christmas. I should take a picture just to show How good I'm at lawn care....it looks real good and green from fertilizing for the first time in two years.

    Peace

    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    okay....so i want for the diamond look yesterday and the results were...mixed. don't get me wrong. the lawn looks awesome, its just you can't see the lines quite as well as i would have hoped.

    did some research and found the solution to my dilemma:
    image a roller!

    this is what really bends the blades and gives you that checkerboard looking yard--
    image


    ill be picking one of them up this week.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,597
    oh boy...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyFlAwsLXSA
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  • oysterjar
    oysterjar NH Posts: 1,235
    Well that looks swell but my wife is lucky if I even cut the grass.
    Wind this thing up.

  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited April 2014
    get a fucking herd of goats, sheep, elephants, bees & geese. your yard will be wonderful. checkers.... yes you should play a yard board checkers game when you get your yard ironed out.

    red & black checker pieces. what will you & your g/f use as pieces? sticks painted up, forks, spoons, pans, pots, tires, pens, light bulbs painted red, rulers, dishes, keys or vinyl albums because they're already black or red
    Post edited by chadwick on
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  • chadwick
    chadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    edited April 2014
    image
    oysterjar said:

    Well that looks swell but my wife is lucky if I even cut the grass.

    for hire, dude



    http://www.bikinilawn.com/images/frontpic.jpgimage


    hell you could hire her for her services of standing there or walking around with her little mower


    http://www.bikinilawn.com/april242005/images/DSC06022.jpgimage
    Post edited by chadwick on
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce

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