Lawn mowing and equipment

I’m so glad it’s you dealing with all that white stuff and not me! Took these just for you on our trip to town this afternoon.

Feel free to click on it and open up the original in Flickr, download it if you’d like :slight_smile:

Can’t remember the sticking tongue out smiley. It’s snowing here just now.

There is a bit of me that wants to say something along the lines of “… off and die.”

But I’d really rather see the back of snow - it is unusually late for snow to fall.

And my heating’s not working and the plumber that would call me back two weeks ago hasn’t.

Tired of being cold. As you may have guessed, I’m jealous!

You can remind me of how pretty spring was in the next month when it breaks 100º, then stays there for a hundred days. :stuck_out_tongue:

Year before last we set new records when it did just that, something like 117 days of 100º or more…consecutive, no break, 86º or better at 3 in the morning. Wife and I had a wedding in the mountains of New Mexico to shoot, man it was nice up there! Like an air conditioner blowing on you no matter where you were. But we only got to stay up there for a week, had to come home in the middle of the heat wave and see all the creeks and some of the rivers dry as an old bone.

But yeah, for a short while it’s pretty nice. Need to clean up my John Deere so I get it a mess again lol

The security question is asking me what the “F” means? Should I use your example and tell it? ROFLMAO

Wow those are beautiful, nice macros! Not a hint of green here, yet. I know a lot of ppl are bothered by allergies but not me. I know the snow and ice look bad, but I enjoy taking the wheelers down the frozen river and out onto the lake, it’s about 25 miles down the ice. Soon I hope to have weather like that and some green. Texas really has a lot of different climates!

This was my front yard when I bought my house in Aug of 2011. I was almost scared to do a first pass through that high grass because who knows what might be in there. Luckily nothing jumped out and bit me or broke the mowers. There were a total of only 2 acres included with the property and it was going to need a fair amount of work.

This was the back yard then as well


This was what it looked like in the spring of 2012 only using the roughcut Trail mower and the little 13HP Honda rider I was using at the time!


Then later in 2012 I purchased an additional 13 acres! I was excited to have been able to get the extra room. I think at least half of that I keep groomed.
Much of my lawn is behind me in this photo. I lease out the field on the right to a farmer, otherwise I’d be mowing that too. It’s been a process and a work in progress.

Place looks great, love the native grasses you have there. Nice place, you can be proud…it’s looking well groomed and should come into line even more this year with your new equipment.

Big thumbs up, nice job you’re doing!

Thanks, a lot of the work has been to the house and not just the land. So far I’ve redone all the staining to the house and decks, new thicker insulated garage doors and openers with batter back-up, lol, the belt drive is nearly silent. All the appliances had to be purchased and fitted. Everything put in was Samsung and I couldn’t be happier with all of it. Magnetic induction is the only way to go for a range. There are no negatives unless you like gas because it warms your house too. The water heater in the place was the least efficient model of that year. I put in the GE heatpump hybrid tank that was the most efficient model in 2011. Also, changed out all the lights to CFL, except one in the living room that I can’t reach even with the tall ladder. I’ve got way too many CFLs in stock to switch over to LED and they are not cost effective right now anyways. But my porch floodlights are CFL and when it’s cold they take 20 min to warm up. But I’ve still got a lot that I want to do!

I only mow the front lawn and the area between my house and the garage. I do that with an electric mower that someone had on the curb throwing away. My back yard blends in with the rest of the forest, except it’s mature fruit trees and berry bushes along with a big enough clearing to have a small garden and a fire pit, I BBQ on the deck. The deer, rabbits and occasional bear maintain the trails.

Very low maintenance and very user friendly.