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I had a little bit of excitement today
« on: May 18, 2025, 03:32:04 PM »
I had a little bit of excitement today. I heard beep, beep, beep like a truck backing up. When I looked out my front door there was a sheriff's paramedic SUV parked right in front of my house with no one in it. Right behind it, in front of my neighbor's driveway was an ECNALUBMA, at least that's what it said on the front of it. ;)  After a couple of minutes, 2 paramedics wheeled a stretcher up the next driveway and the sidewalk and up to my neighbor's house. I don't even know the new neighbors on that side of me. After what seemed like a long time, they wheeled out the stretcher with a woman on it, loaded her in the ambulance and climbed in with her. Then the sheriff's paramedic and a guy came out, the guy went back to the house, then the paramedic went back. I stood there watching for a long time and nothing happened. When I went to the bathroom the sheriff's paramedic took off, and the ambulance left shortly after.

A couple days ago, I did a little weed whacking after I pushed that fence post over with my ATV. A car must have hit it going in the driveway. It was leaning over so far I couldn't mow next to the fence, so I straightened it up. I put some new line on the string trimmer I bought last year. It was the first time and I used left over .080" line instead of the .065" it's supposed to take. I didn't even fill the spool halfway, because I don't know if it's going to work or not. I really need to mow, and will do it if we go a couple days without rain. My yard is usually one of the better cared for around here, and having look it like that is kind of embarrassing.
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Re: I had a little bit of excitement today
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2025, 10:54:38 PM »
We regularly mow about 4-1/2 acres of grass and 800' of road frontage 8' wide.  Maybe 1/2 mile of weed eating every so often depending on where it is. 

The 37 HP Spartan mower and a 22 HP John Deere mower (both zero turn) help get the job done in 5-6 hours without weedeating.
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Re: I had a little bit of excitement today
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2025, 04:24:25 PM »
Quote from: Rastus on May 18, 2025, 10:54:38 PM
We regularly mow about 4-1/2 acres of grass and 800' of road frontage 8' wide.  Maybe 1/2 mile of weed eating every so often depending on where it is. 

The 37 HP Spartan mower and a 22 HP John Deere mower (both zero turn) help get the job done in 5-6 hours without weedeating.

I leveled up last spring to a 60" Gravely HD. I looked at Spartan, but we only had one dealer and they aren't known to be the best at service after the sale.
We have about 4.5 acres of yard to mow between ours and the younger son's combined. The last fourteen years we've done it with a 50" Cub Cadet zero turn and it'd take about 5-6 hours. With the Gravely I can do it in about 2.5..... the entire mowing season only put 27 hours on the clock.
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Re: I had a little bit of excitement today
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2025, 08:42:41 PM »
It used to take me 45 minutes to mow, pushing a 20"-22" power mower. Now I think it takes me an hour. It's going to take longer than that, because I like to mulch the grass, and I'll be mowing half the width of the mower. If I do that and go slow, I can still do a good job.

I texted my friend yesterday, with the picture and started out, "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!", then told him what happened. 
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