Cutting the Grass

Time to fire up the Chamberlain again, John?

I'll bet the grass is 4' high at your place with all this rain and heat.

Jarrod.

And thats only the front yard........I bought a new rideon mower,and the stupid thing wont cut wet or even damp grass,and wont cut long grass......been chasing a small excavator.....these things sell in like 10 minutes.

JOHN.K. wrote:

And thats only the front yard........I bought a new rideon mower,and the stupid thing wont cut wet or even damp grass,and wont cut long grass......been chasing a small excavator.....these things sell in like 10 minutes.

I don't think the excavator going to cut the grass either.

Gryphon wrote:

JOHN.K. wrote:

And thats only the front yard........I bought a new rideon mower,and the stupid thing wont cut wet or even damp grass,and wont cut long grass......been chasing a small excavator.....these things sell in like 10 minutes.

I don't think the excavator going to cut the grass either.

well, actually........
I saw, the other week, a ten ton digger, with a flail mower head, cutting terrain that would otherwise only be maintained by a whipper-snipper, such was the roughness and inaccessibility of the ground.

Yep ,thats the plan ...flail or cutter deck on a quick release.

What size ride on John? HP and deck size make a huge difference then they are only ride on mowers not slashers. When they see long grass the deck neds to be raised and have a couple of runs over it.

The grass at John's place, at least down the back would defeat any rider mower I can think of. The old go forward 4" and wait for the revs to come back up job. Once the first track is made, it would be just cutting a few inches off each side to avoid bogging the engine down. My place has been like this in the past.

Jarrod.

I blame global warming...and global raining.....and global grass growing.......the new mower is a Rover /MTD Chinese.......it simply cant handle wet /damp grass......a few seconds in damp grass ,the cutter deck clogs ,and the $60 drive belt smokes .....this happened twice in the first five minutes I had it ,and before I knew it the drive belt had melted ..The old Deutscher would cut any grass ,wet ,damp ,6ft tall ,no worries .

I have only seen one Deutscher and it was a real beauty and came with a trailing mower with its own power supply and was offset so he got 2 cuts for one pass.

Most Ride on's are strictly Lawn Mowers unless you spend the value of a small car on a Commercial one..