The Lawnmower Thread
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Just Some Guy P.E.
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About 5500 square feet (0.13 acres). Takes about an hour and 45 minutes with a gas rotary mower and about an hour and 10 minutes with my reel mower.
Just Some Guy P.E.
Inglourious Basterd
Dexman PE PMP
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If his gas mower is like mine, I have to go over every section twice. Instead of mowing a full width path, I overlap each path by half but go the opposite direction as the previous. In the end, though it looks like this:
that explains it.
Dex: I always overlap with my gas mower too. do you mix it up so sometimes the stripes are "vertical" and sometimes "diagonal"? oooh.
I do the opposing overlap method too, but I never get pretty lines out of it. Then again, my front yard has completely gone to shit thanks to dense shade, grubs, and a fungus that wiped most of it out, coupled with a pile of leaves that the GF raked and never bagged.
Just Some Guy P.E.
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My gas mower (a Honda) doesn't cut fine enough to mulch. It also requires more exertion to push in spite of being self-propelled.
Huh. 45 min < 1 hr 10 min. I can't imagine using a non gas mower, it would take me all day.
Mulching saves fertilizer. Only bag if you let the grass get too long and you are worried about how it will look when you are done mowing.
Just Some Guy P.E.
Inglourious Basterd
It all depends on the intended purpose. I live in town and my family and I spend a lot of time in our back yard, so I want it to be comfortable and have a nice appearance. I can hit it two or three times a week with a reel mower and it's not quite as onerous a task as having to hassle with a gas mower and bag it and all the other attentive nonsense that goes with it. I take care of my grandmother's old house in southeast Oklahoma that's out in the country and use another self-propelled Honda that's set up to mulch. I don't give a damn how nice it looks, I just want to reduce the fire hazard and the number of critters making their home around there. (I ran over a copperhead two years ago while mowing.) I can haul ass and mow that half-an-acre within 2-1/2 hours.
JSG previous post:
"Takes about an hour and 45 minutes with a gas rotary mower and about an hour and 10 minutes with my reel mower."
That's why I love my Toro personal pace mower. You can walk as fast or slow as you want, or change pace as much as want, and it keeps up with you.
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Dexman PE PMP
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Each week is a different direction. Vertical, horizontal, diagonal, opposite diagonal. After I'm done the front yard looks like the outfield of a baseball field. And I'm OCD enough to make sure I walk on the side that will be overlapped by the next pass so when I'm done there are no footprints. It doesn't work so well in the back yard because the dog runs around and messes it all up within an hour.
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^^ how long would it take to mow 5500 sq ft with that monster?? I bet it is quicker than 1 hour and 45 min.
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Slow it down to chug beer? Just get one of these:
