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My little patch of lawn. I mow it twice a week and love the look of a freshly mowed lawn. This has been a great spring for color. Dogwoods are spectacular this year.

^^^ cp
I don't grow lawn grass for a crop/food.

Nice colors in there.

I do lawns and snow!

A lot of both.

yes--I actually like mowing, to paraphrase Peter-man" fresh air, gettin' exercise" and very satisfying when the job is well-done.

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I like mowing our 3+ acres with my commercial Kubota zero turn, it makes short work of it. Weed whacking? Not so much, but I'm too anal not to keep everything nicely trimmed.

^same. Weed whacking is work. Mowing is fun with the 0 turn. I got the wife to try it and she loved it until she ran into a chair, panicked and pushed forward on the controls instead of pulling back. The chair rammed into a table and both hit the fence. She veered to the left and the Cherry tree stopped her rampage. This all happened in seconds.. First and last time she even sat on the thing.

I don't mind at all. I crawl up on my diesel 4x4 John Deere 855 with the 72" mid mower, put my headphones on, and let her rip. I mowed our 5 acres, my daughter's acre (1/4 mile down the road from us) and her neighbor's 1/2 acre yard today after getting home from work.

The foot controlled hydrostatic, and the power steering are wonderful, and sometimes, the 4x4 is needed !

Mowing is very fun.
Weed whacking...not so much.
Cleaning the underside of the mowing deck..worst job of the bunch.

How often do you take the time to scrape the dried grass off?

i mean you do, if you a lawn. just because its a pointless crop, doesn't mean it isnt a crop.

^^^ If I didn't mow it....it would turn ugly fast.

so grow something else?

im converting my yard to be grassless. well, kentucky blue grassless anyway. mostly native/bee friendly plants.

I don't know why but that sentence had me in tears with laughter. "Stopped her rampage" LOL

If you look on my 2 post lift thread I think there's a pic of my mower on the lift. But since I don't mow when the grass is wet, I tend not to get much buildup on the deck so I only clean it once in the spring when I'm getting ready for mowing season.

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My JD deck is only 48"...so when it needs cleaning, I put a hyd jack under the back hitch plate and the mower deck slides out more easy.
If my lift was a two-post, I would try what you did. Do you use an air chisel or just a scraper for the build-up?

I try to get as much as I can with a plastic scraper. For stubborn stuff I use a putty knife. Something else you can do if you have a deck that gets a lot of buildup is, get it really clean and apply something called slip plate. I used to do that with my old rider. A farmer taught me that one.

I wuz a child prodigy ... became a pro before my teen years ... and hell naw ... not in Aug :D!

Don't mow when wet... and never clean yer deck... ever ;)

... Gimme a bestly Stihl weed whacker on a hot day instead!

Also bought this last year, vintage original lawn boy self- propelled commercial 2-stroke for all trimming. I know...........I'm ate uphttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619610546.jpg

Still have to spray so don't judge me! But nope! I'm not a lawn guy. Which set of stripes would you like to see? The North/South, East/West or the diagonals? I can't have any grass clumps so I mow twice each time I mow. So each time I mow I have either a checkerboard or an X pattern. It's a sickness.

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The longer your married the bigger the lawn gets. It’s quiet time for many, I told my brother in law to get a zero turn he said it mows to fast.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1619613919.jpg