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OT: Would you hire someone to cut your grass?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Would you hire someone to cut your grass if it looked like this a day later?


Yesterday I was driving my truck and stopped at a light in town when I took the first pic.

Today, I pulled off the road, turned the car off and took the second pic from a different angle. I had to turn the car off to regain control of my phone, car hijacks phone when running.

Why are some people run a race to cut their grass as close to the ground as possible and don't care what it looks like when they get done?

I don't bag my grass and my yard doesn't have dead grass in it a day later.

Would you pay for a yard full of dead grass?
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george, i am guilty as charged. i "farmer mow" everything. if ya cant see dirt when you are done, you havent mowed short enough. even my road ditches look like a putting green on a golf course. if i dont finish mow my ditches, they are an invitation for citiots to dump garbage. heck even last weekend i had to clean up a bunch of old deck boards and bags of yard waste that some townie dumped at one of my field drives. grrrrr.
 

Part of my yard looks like that every time I mow it, and part of the yard does not. It is ALL mowed at the same time.
 

With all the rain I've had to mow while it's still pretty wet, which causes all the nasty clumps and such. Picked up a sweeper a few years ago and use it during these times. Makes a nice start for next year's compost pile.
 
That looks more like a vacant commercial property than a lawn. Only mowed after too high to suit the city, so it is cut. I wouldn't pay extra for more frequent cutting or catcher either. My lawn is another matter.
 
I like to mow wet grass, less crap flying in air. I raise the front wheels on my 72 inch woods and grass is chopped into fine pieces. More water comes out the shoot than grass.

Here are pics of two yards I got paid to mow. The grass was very wet. Pics were taken a day later. Can't put a bagger on a 72 woods mower.

When I'm done, the grass is gone. I mow the yards every 2 weeks if it needs it or not.
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Jessie,
You're half right. It is commercial property. It gets cut
weekly. I drive past this property two times a day. Look at how
tall the grass is before he cuts it.

Grass has to be more than 8 inches before code enforcement will
send you a letter telling you it needs mowed.
 
I am would like to know about speed of these zero turns ! Does speed affect a well groomed lawn?
Led
 
I think speed along with dull blades affect the way the lawn looks. I've seen some go so fast, the blades wip the grass instead of cutting it.
 
I cut a couple of yards that get very thick and tall between cuttings. Budget dictates cutting schedule for some folks. I spread it with mower and leaf blower but when the yard could have been cut for hay you still get lots of dead grass.
 

I had that problem with a lot in town but no more... I would get a letter from the city at least two times a mouth so I put round up on it... Its been mowed two times this year I spec I will mow it one more time before the season ends... I thought it was smart to leave a little just in case they did not like it...

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George, you are retired and have time to mow your lawn/lots every 4 days.
Those that still HAVE TO BE at work every day don't have time to mow that often, and when they are there, have a time limit to get the job done. That wasn't your neighbor , so don't worry about it.
Loren
 
(quoted from post at 16:59:24 08/28/18) I like to mow wet grass, less crap flying in air. I raise the front wheels on my 72 inch woods and grass is chopped into fine pieces. More water comes out the shoot than grass.

Here are pics of two yards I got paid to mow. The grass was very wet. Pics were taken a day later. Can't put a bagger on a 72 woods mower.

When I'm done, the grass is gone. I mow the yards every 2 weeks if it needs it or not.
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If my yard looked that bad after I mowed it, I sure wouldn't be posting pictures of it.
 
That might be a commercial lot that only gets mowed every month or two. Some hay fields are cut more often than that.
 
Maybe if he went slower it may look better. Some times the cut green grass clumps up, and in a few days it will dry and flatten down some. The mower blades need to be kept sharp to do a good job, that's what I found out anyway. There is a certain fine stem rye grass around here, even when dry no matter how sharp the blades are the blades just push the grass over, and don't cut much. It's been a 20 year learning experience for me. stan
 
King,
I have better things than to I mow every 4 days. I mow every 14 days, 4 acres total. Another retired person mows the 2 acres down south.
 
(quoted from post at 18:09:51 08/28/18)
Part of my yard looks like that every time I mow it, and part of the yard does not. It is ALL mowed at the same time.
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Mine is exactly the same way!
 
Sir George;
Ifin I waited 14 days here this year my lawn would look like the field that you took pics of. I have let the lawn go for about a week, but I had to hook on the lawn sweeper to clean up all the mass of clippings.
My compost box is full of garden clippings and grass clippings. My compost box is an old dump truck body set at ground level and I stir it up with my Kubota KX41-3 trackhoe about once a month.
Loren
 
Well lets see. I do an average of 6-8 hours of chores every day, seven days a week.. I also try and put some time in the shop. Then add in that it has rained here every two days for the last three weeks. Some times just a sprinkle but enough to keep the grass wet. So with the warm weather the grass is exploding in growth like it is spring here. We also have the annual invasion of the fast growing bushy fox tail grass. Looks like the rust colored stuff in the picture. Cuts like wire and is heavy so it does not throw very far. Even with razor sharp blades and going slow it does not look very good when mowed.

So where am I going with all of this??? I have parts of my yard that look like this. It takes 4-6 hours to mow the entire yard. I rarely have that much time in any one day. So I mow sections when I can. I am not going to take time from something else just to have a manicured yard. I have yet to see any income from my yard looking like a gulf coarse fairway. The grand kids and pets do not get lost in the grass so it is good enough for me. LOL
 
Yes as bad as my back is, I sure would. But I got 30 active bee hives in the front yard. Keeps salesmen and custom lawn moving people away.
 
Out here in West Central Texas my yard has been mowed 2 times this year by youngest son. Made more dust than grass. Did couple spots with string trimmer other day.
 
This is an exceptional year in our part of the country (southern IN). Enormous amounts of rain in late July and just about all of August.

Grass is growing as if it were May.

Cutting mine every 6-7 days and for most of the summer it has been overdue.

Dean
 
I remember once taking a shot at some fella here a decade or two ago that paid $17,000 for a Deere 3010 or 3020. It truly was a good looking restoration as near as I could tell, but not worth the $17,000 that he paid for it and made it known. A fella here back then, Mark out of Texas that went by "TXBLU" because of his Ford and then "TXGRN" when he bought a 4230 as I recall that I always considered a friend to me on this board tore into me but good as a brother should and would and put me right in my place where I deserved. I truly deserved it because as Mark reminded me that it was that fella's money and what he did with his hard earned money was his business, not mine. For a moment I forgot my mother's golden rule, "If they don't put the food in your mouth, the roof over your head, or the money in your pocket, feed the mother ....... fish". She sometimes stood up and shouted that out at bars after we as a family drank a few too many and just before we got thrown out after she started another bar fight. I hope that all is well for Mark from Texas.

Every now and then I have to be humbled and put in my place because as a human I make mistakes. An old convict in a prison that I was doing some work in one of countless times asked me one time if I knew the difference between a convict and an inmate. I shrugged NO because I thought that they were the same. I was wrong and he let me know. A convict minds his own business and an inmate minds everyone else's business.

Mark
 
Looks good to me. Not everyone cares about a manicured lawn or has the time. Not to mention different grass and weeds. Mine never gets cut all at once and the overabundance of rain all summer don't help. As long as it's cut enough to keep the snakes and field rats away I'm happy.
 
This year we?ve had enough rain to keep grass growing all summer. We got some sheep and they mow the yard. I?ve actually only mowed with machine 2 times to keep it uniform.
 
That would be the fault of the person doing the hiring. If it was mowed more often there would be a lot less grass laying around and it wouldn't look like an freshly mowed hay field.
 
For me, that grass is way to long and looks like crap. That is how my 3 acres look before I mow it. I wouldn't pay for either job, but then I'm not being asked to. As long as the customer is happy, who cares?
 
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