mowing

[mckitterick]

So, I know what you'll all say, but I've discovered that mowing with a powered lawn mower is da bomb. I mean, I haven't used a motorized mower for, lessee... 20 years. I've been using a reel mower:

But, ya know, pushing a spiral blade through knee-high grass for hours in the 100 degree and 100% humidity Kansas summer is just asking for a coronary. So, praise be adammaker for letting me use his mower in exchange for storing it until he buys himself another house. Wow, but does that take all the pain and drudgery out of mowing! Now I can mow our entire (not huge, but big enough) yard in less than an hour, including mowing through the encroaching gardens and dumping the collected clippings into collection bags for recycling.

The foot hurts after stomping around behind the mower for that long, but if I had to push our reel mower around to mow the grass right now; well, let's just say the house would be hidden in a forest of elephant grass.

Chris

Comments

[emessar.livejournal.com]

I've been using a reel mower for the last five years. It seems to do okay as long as the ground is level and the grass isn't too high. First time I mow each year, I let it go too long and have to do the whole thing with a weed wacker. Luckily I have a small yard.

It takes a little longer to actually mow the yard, but I justify it as time not spent pulling a damn ripcord or tinkering with the mechanics. Just push.