Recent content by Suburban Plowboy

This is why we have epidemics.

Dude. You're wiping with your hand.

I have wasted a lot of money in my life, but I try not to. It's sometimes hard to decide what is waste and what is simply not being too stingy to enjoy life. It bothers me to pay too much for antiperspirant or garbage bags (I pay 7 cents each), but when my wife and I went to Singapore and...

It's 60,000 unless the parts break down unexpectedly, and that has happened to a lot of people. It could be less than 1. You could start your tractor tomorrow and find out you have an expensive, time-wasting problem. It's not a simple issue. The manufacturer's rosy predictions about part...

The OP didn't tell the end of the story. I hope he didn't end up in the funny farm.

In my case, "hack job" is probably better than what I do now.

I am paying more attention to the many people who have had expensive emissions-parts failures.

The flail mower puzzle is confusing. I think I will pick up a Victory Trim-56 next month. It looks like it will work for me.

You can definitely have it as long as you're single.

As I was saying above, I would be content just to get the sides trimmed. That alone would save me considerable aggravation. The mower will be mostly for getting rid of brush with stems up to maybe an inch in diameter. If it helped with hedges, it would just be a side dish. The Sabre Samurai...

Sounds like it would do the job for me, well enough to make driving the tractor out of the shop worth it. Thanks.

I'm thinking more along the lines of $3000-$5000, total. A sickle mower would eat an awful lot of that all by itself.

I'm already planning to get a flail mower for brush. I thought being able to zip around the perimeter of the house and trim the sides of the edges would be a bonus. I might set out some privacy hedges later. The house hedges are your typical house-length hedges. The privacy hedges could to...

This will probably sound crazy, but can a flail mower be used to trim the sides of hedges? I have a power hedge trimmer, but I am really bad at trimming. My hedges look like they have some kind of disease. It would be wonderful if I could tilt a flail mower and drive down a hedge, making it...

The remote valves only require a 10-amp fuse, so I think I'm okay.