The battle begins...

[rugerpc]

On one side, you have just shy of 2 acres of hilly, bumpy, unruly, angry turf.

On the other, an aging man armed only with modest power tools and this:

Who will win?

 

[slev]

Conventional weapons are useless against ....THE TURF....the turf keeps coming...you'll win the battle but lose the war.

 

[JustRob]

Nice. I wish I had room in the shed for one of those. Mowing is one chore I would love to be done with.

 

[László]

The tractor will win.

Tractors always win.

 

[MikeD]

You'll win with tractor for sure. I had one years ago and it was great
Me? I pay someone to cut my lawn these days. I work 6 days a week and the last thing I want to do on my one day off is cut the friggin' lawn

 

[alantig]

I have a son. Not cutting the grass now is a side benefit!

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I'm going on my fourth season of not mowing... Love it! Like Bill I had two acres of lawn to mow for the last 8/9 years.. Seriously? I'm too punk for lawn care, if I owned a home I'd pull a Mr. T. and blacktop that sh!t.

 

[watelessness]

i spent a couple hours digging dandelions this weekends. if they had green flowers i'd just let them go. :goodnight:

 

[mezzio]

i spent a couple hours digging dandelions this weekends. if they had green flowers i'd just let them go. :goodnight:

I spread some weed killer granules last spring, walked outside today and saw that they must have finally started working dandelions growing everywhere except my little plot, lol. Suppose ill do it again this year when I get the energy to finally mow.

 

[rugerpc]

Slev!

At first glance, I thought you changed your avatar to a pic of a lawn with huge, knob-shaped houses!! :rofl:

 

[slev]

Slev!

At first glance, I thought you changed your avatar to a pic of a lawn with huge, knob-shaped houses!! :rofl:

HA!

That the closest I get to a lawn since we found the cheapest, best landscape company on the face of the earth! I retired my mower last year and while there was always something Zen about cutting the lawn for me, my lower back doesn't miss it at all.

 

[alantig]

I'm going on my fourth season of not mowing... Love it! Like Bill I had two acres of lawn to mow for the last 8/9 years.. Seriously? I'm too punk for lawn care, if I owned a home I'd pull a Mr. T. and blacktop that sh!t.

I told my wife for years I'd be happy if we had an astroturf lawn.

Seriously, lawn maintenance is so far down my list of priorities. I used to live across the street from a guy who resodded his lawn probably 15 times in the 13 years I lived there. I'd have been content if I only cut mine that much.

 

[vchizzle]

I just dove back into lawn care. It's been since I was a very young man since I've had to deal with it. The mowing aspect doesn't bother me, it's not a huge yard. Throwing on some headphones for an hour is a little escape. It's all the other crap to try to make it look half decent. Previous owner didn't do much, it's in rough shape. Will see what I can do this year. I should've done the Trugreen or similar company thing, but I wanted to keep cost down my 1st year here. Next year it's either lawn service or mutha truckin' blacktop fool!

 

[rugerpc]

Well, it was nip and tuck for a while. The battle raged back and forth. the lawn had the edge - in places it was almost a foot high...

What could I do? I called in reinforcements. Nuthin' tames the grass like a Santana SE!

 

[rugerpc]

I got the grass done just in time. 10 minutes after those pics it was pouring cats and dogs.

 

[alantig]

I got the grass done just in time. 10 minutes after those pics it was pouring cats and dogs.

Yech - good thing you were inside. All that yelping and mewing would have hurt your ears!