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larry8200
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 Posted - 07/06/2012 : 06:44:09
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skunkhome
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 06:57:14
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| I honestly thing your place is benefiting from all ht orange hardware. Your lawn looks great! When do you find time to even move all of them to mow much less work with/on them. |
  Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
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larry8200
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 07:30:47
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Honestly, these tractors are a solid part time job. It took over an hour to move these 12 from one side to the other
My lawn hasn't had anything but Simplicity tractors on it for 21 years this August, And I BELEIVE that long term mowing with a heavy deck with full width rollers improves the lawn all by its self.
And I have always been Obsessive on keeping my lawn neat. I also have a Stihl FS-74 commercial string trimmer (new in 91!!!) that I would be lost without, and an MTD 21" Mower that I hardly use. I have been
"tuning" my lawn for a 48" mower for two decades and I have it down to a science
As for my lawn, the weather has been just about perfect here for things that grow, and it shows. |
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Talntedmrgreen
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 07:49:52
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| Yeah...it would be fun, but it would be a full time job for me. I need to make time for oil changes, but the lack of grass to mow is allowing me to wait until it cools off. It will still take an entire evening =[ |
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oldsarge
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 09:12:20
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| Larry;better be nice to them,It looks like they're lining up to make a break for it!!!! |
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1014211
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 09:16:15
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larry8200
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 09:25:17
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Originally posted by oldsarge
Larry;better be nice to them,It looks like they're lining up to make a break for it!!!!
LOL, I would worry, BUT: every LAST one of these is not just a lttle better than when they joined, but a LOT BETTER!
I haven't any evidence of dis-content. No scalping or red "spotting" from the hydros at all. 
If you look at the lawn, those scalp free stripes were clearly made by a contented machine. :) |
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skunkhome
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 18:45:34
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Originally posted by larry8200
......And I BELEIVE that long term mowing with a heavy deck with full width rollers improves the lawn all by its self.
I have to concur with that. I know that when we bought our B1 in 1962 we cut our field that was once cultivated and full of broom grass. The first cutting was tough and subsequent cutting every week was a bone jarring experience. After about 3 seasons of cutting the field was smooth and level and was the lawn of choice for the neighborhood football an baseball games. |
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
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SimplicitySwede
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 19:28:41
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| You couldt sell all those RBTs and still have more tractors than me lol |
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acdad
USA
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Posted - 07/06/2012 : 21:35:21
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| Lineup looks great Larry. I wish my lawn was half as green as yours. We are almost totally brown around here. Do you have any AC's left or are they all Simplicity's? |
Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional!
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Big Ten
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larry8200
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2012 : 03:57:15
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Originally posted by acdad
Lineup looks great Larry. I wish my lawn was half as green as yours. We are almost totally brown around here. Do you have any AC's left or are they all Simplicity's?
I still have a B-210 hydrolift, nice runner/worker, and I have a nice Allis built 312 and B-207E which both need batteries and minor tinkering, and a basket case B-110
And I have a pait of Allis built Homelite T-16's. One hydro, one shuttle |
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olcowhand
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2012 : 07:51:01
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Originally posted by acdad
Lineup looks great Larry. I wish my lawn was half as green as yours. We are almost totally brown around here. Do you have any AC's left or are they all Simplicity's?
Know what you mean. Here is my yard, or what was a yard! Drrryyy!
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skunkhome
USA
12827 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2012 : 08:27:16
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| Looks like my winter lawn. I've heard of Kentucky blue grass but not brown... |
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
Benjamin Franklin |
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larry8200
USA
3166 Posts |
Posted - 07/07/2012 : 08:43:28
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HA!
You want to see brown, just wait. Most of my lawn is perrenial rye grass. Very nice in the summer but dies at the end of October and is a dead brown from the end of November through the middle of April when it regrows from the roots.
Of course the ground here is usually snow covered from some time in November through the end of March. So it doesn't really matter. |
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skunkhome
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2012 : 09:53:26
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| Funny perineal rye grows here during what we call winter. But is not at all perineal. |
Phil
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty."
Benjamin Franklin |
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SimplicitySwede
USA
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Posted - 07/07/2012 : 10:10:10
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| It's dormant in the winter and it's dormant in the summer. I been working in Southern Wisconsin this summer and it's dry here. I think the whole mid west is dry. |
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