The PIC whore club! Come on in!

[Tracy Bowman]

Amen brother!

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[Nevada_Bob]

Hauled the dirt bike to do some riding yesterday.

Cool and damp here in Hew Hampshire, but it kept the bugs down.

We call this section the Disenchanted Forest. It's a good work out.

 

[dondonbabyraptor]

Fancy 2500$ Glock. Some call it stupid. I call it shooting in style.

 

[AzScorpion]

Sorry for the pic heavy post but thought these were cool. Taken from the '75 auto show in Chicago. Brings back a lot of memories. Just look at the size of those Caddys! lol

 

[Strokerduster]

Am I the only one that enjoys mowing the yard??

 

[AzScorpion]

Am I the only one that enjoys mowing the yard??

Yes! ?

I hate it and so glad there's no grass here. It's boring with all stone landscaping here but I love the low/no maintenance now.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Am I the only one that enjoys mowing the yard??

I enjoy it also, Strokerduster. I do my best thinking while mowing.

 

[IdahoRanger]

Am I the only one that enjoys mowing the yard??

I enjoy it. Just mowed but it is nothing compared to that!

 

[KNI]

Am I the only one that enjoys mowing the yard??

Not at all. I do enjoy mowing the lawn. I got 5000sqm (53,820sqft) lawn* with multitude of obstacles which takes 2-3 hours to mow even with 4x4 front mower (JONSERED FR 2318 FA 4X4). Nothing more relaxing that some peace, quiet and tunes from radio station. At the end of each run, that "I accomplished something here" feeling is magnificent.

I should mow it at least 2 to 3 times per week, but unfortunately my time is limited and in practice it get's mowed when it starts to look ugly. I've been thinking about outsourcing it to a robot, but I fear that the robot would get stuck or something and those cost like 5000$ + wiring. Trimming the non mowable areas is quite a pain also.

* = "Lawn" is former forest floor which I've cleared, de-rock'd and leveled with nothing but hand tools. There's still one tree stump (about 90cm/35 inch) which is just too big for hand removal. It will rot in a decade anyway. Old concrete blocks & stuff which the former owner buried in the ground I've cut to pieces and removed with rotary hammer. Sand I've put in 120 tons and soil about 20 tons and it's still bumpy as hell on some parts. Rocks I removed with crowbar and sand, above half-ton blocks I drilled with rotary hammer and split with hammer and wedges. It's kind of "My project" which probably never finishes. Once calculated that I'd need another 1500 tons of soil to fully level it out and probably around 500kg explosives to blow off the bedrock on high spots (takes decades with rotary hammer).

 

[gfitzge2]

Am I the only one that enjoys mowing the yard??

Nope. Before I retired I considered mowing as decompression. After working in a factory, looking at concrete , steel and bulky robots and machines all day, climbing on that mower was a great stress reliever. Now that I am retired, I still don't mind mowing. I only keep about one and a half acres neatly trimmed and another 4 or so gets cut a little less often.

BTW that yard looks great.

 

[l0rdv8r]

2.25 acres here, and I enjoy mowing, but really need to get something along the lines of a sub-compact tractor for my property. It was all woods at one time, and now the 2 acres not around the house are pretty rough... As someone that already has a bad back, its pretty bad on my back in a riding mower / zero turn.

 

[Strokerduster]

2.25 acres here, and I enjoy mowing, but really need to get something along the lines of a sub-compact tractor for my property. It was all woods at one time, and now the 2 acres not around the house are pretty rough... As someone that already has a bad back, its pretty bad on my back in a riding mower / zero turn.

Get one with a suspension. makes a lot of difference....

 

[KNI]

2.25 acres here, and I enjoy mowing, but really need to get something along the lines of a sub-compact tractor for my property. It was all woods at one time, and now the 2 acres not around the house are pretty rough... As someone that already has a bad back, its pretty bad on my back in a riding mower / zero turn.

Rent an Ivan for it and then reseed. Rocks, stumps, bedrock.. doesn't matter Ivan can do about 20 inches deep leveling.

Takes a day or two.

 

[dondonbabyraptor]

The fact you are all sharing your expertise and enjoying a good tractor is entertaining to a city boy like me. I don’t know what the hell I am reading but I like it.

 

[TN Ranger]

Here's some pics of our first camping trip this year

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