When we moved into a “new" (to us) house when I was about ten years old, my brother and I had to cut the acre of lawn with an old push mower that I swear had a cast iron deck. My Dad wanted to get a lawn tractor to cut it, but we moved in early in the summer and he wanted to wait until the end of the season so he could get a good deal on one. My brother and I would take turns making the “circuit” around the front and back yards. He would take one pass around, I would take the next, etc., etc., etc. Took us a good 2-3 hours if not more to cut the damned grass.
Got the new lawn tractor in September, started using it in the fall to collect firewood from the seven acres of woods we owned behind the house. Got to use it the next year to cut the grass. -D > On Aug 19, 2022, at 5:33 PM, MG via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > yeah I remember those old cast Iron push mowers heavy as sin especially > pushing up hill. Did that till I left for college. Oddly enough when I got > home for Christmas that firs year I saw a nice new motorized rotary mower. > Imagine that. > > MG > > dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >> Or a (push) reel mower. >> I used to cut the postage-sized yard at the Ladies of Charity house for my >> grandmother when I was a kid with one of those push reel mowers. Took a fair >> amount of goomph to move that thing. >> When we lived in Sheboygan we had a pretty small yard. I had sold my Wheel >> Horse tractor with the previous house, so I ended up buying a powered reel >> mower with the grass “basket” on the back. That was a great mower. >> -D >>> On Aug 18, 2022, at 9:59 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Heck gas mowers are for wussies, a REAL man uses a scythe... >>> >>> >>> -Curt >>> >>> On Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 09:37:24 AM EDT, Dimitri Seretakis via >>> Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> Electric mowers are for gurly boyz. Sorry!!!!!’ >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Aug 18, 2022, at 9:09 AM, mitch--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2022-08-18 09:02, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >>>> >>>>> The axe handle is my measuring stick so I know the wood will fit in the >>>>> stove. >>>> Two reasons why my little Husky has a 16" bar: >>>> I use it for limbing and blocking up small stuff, and a relatively long >>>> bar gives more reach for limbing. >>>> It's my woods ruler. Can measure 16", and easily guestimate 18" or 20". >>>> >>>> _______________________________________ >>>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>>> >>>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>>> >>>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
