Fixing the yard...

VacuumLand – Vintage & Modern Vacuum Enthusiasts

Help Support VacuumLand:

kenkart

Well-known member
Joined
Jun 25, 2009
Messages
5,427
After the new septic system was installed, the yard was a disaster, so yesterday Dons dad came with his tractor and we fixed it,

kenkart++10-2-2013-13-50-26.jpg
 
From

The garden looking toward the house.It was a mess, but I think it will come out looking good.

kenkart++10-2-2013-13-58-55.jpg
 
My fat @#$, and Bill telling me how to spread the seed, Im not much of a landscape artist..LOL!

kenkart++10-2-2013-13-59-59.jpg
 
Next spring it will be green! Looks like you all have some elbow room at the new place. What riding mower will you get to mow? Just bought this a few weeks ago and love it!

eluxca++10-6-2013-20-19-32.jpg
 
Hans:

I know exactly what you mean.

I grew up in a house that sat on an acre - about half an acre in front and the same in back.

As soon as my little brother and I were old enough to push a mower, we got stuck with yard duty. Half an acre is a lot when you're eleven years old, and the mower is the balkiest-to-start, non-self-propelled mower you ever saw. And of course, there was Georgia heat and humidity to deal with....

My dad was very meticulous about having the drive and the walkway edged as well (before there were weed-whackers to make the job easier), and he thought nothing of telling us on Sunday (when we were worn out from Saturday's mowing) that he wanted some shrubs moved from here to there. He was also damn generous about lending us to relatives who needed yard work done.

As soon as we left home, he started going through riding mowers until he worked his way up to the biggest garden tractor Sears made. He edges nothing; if the mower deck can't get close to something, that's just too bad.

The result of all this? I hate yard work worse than I hate anything else on this planet. The size of the yard I care for now is thirty feet by thirty, and it's way more than I want to deal with.
 
Hans, enjoy it!!
Just think how pretty it will look next Spring. Be sure and hit all the plant nurseries!
You can come do my yard work to plz!!! I have 12 acres but sadly thats just too much so we only mow 6 of it.
 
The only yard chore I like is mowing-to me its like vacuuming a GIANT carpet.I have a John Deere LA145 tractor and several cordless electric mowers.I don't edge or trim,either-there is a grass "beard" around the base of my mailbox.I HATE other yard chores,guess from when I was a kid and given or was it sentenced to an area to weed.So---just let the weeds in the yard grow and MOW them!My Dad used to say--"If its green-just make it the same height!"I do the same!
 
Tolivac I agree 100%! I love to mow but I hate weedeating and weeding and cutting limbs. We have 60 some odd trees and I love them but geesh are they a lot of work. I have a very green thumb but it's an inside tropical plant room thumb lol none of the outside plants. I mow with a John Deere Z track with either a 50" or 60" deck.
 
Got my yard done in between rainstorms-At how its raining-may have to mow again.One of the cordless mowers is recharging-the Homelite.Since I put a Gator Blade in it-cuts and mulches well.I have a fellow who likes yardwork do the other things.Its worth paying him-He has a truck to haul away the debris.I think I had him do some weedeating at one time-so the mailbox "beard" is gone.The JD Z track mower sounds nice-one of those joystick ZTR ones,is it?My neighbor has a Husqnarva ZTR mower and he seems to love it!I think he "mows" more often than he used to-think he likes to ride the mower-does look like fun.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top