How would you feel if some stranger came and mowed your grass?

[treman]

I agree with RobertN....I was selling 55 Acres one time and had an ad in the paper so I was out bush hogging it while waiting for a prospective buyer that had called to come to see it...I looked up from the tractor to see a man waving both of his arms and holding up his hands for me to stop ....so I did and jumped down to talk with him....He was the buyer that had called me and he told me he had come early and was out on the property and he would buy it for my price but he said...please stop bush hogging ..I want some of these blackberries and other plants and small trees that have grown here...I stopped and we wrote up the contract and closed and he bought the property....Point is ...you just never know...different strokes for different folks...LOL

This is very true. I personally had planted about an acre to rye grass along the neighboring ag field. The gent that farms it was being nice and mowed it for me about a week before it set seed. lucky for me it was early in the season and it still reseeded itself and hopefully it will thicken up a bit next season.

I think what you did however was great. you talked to them and they seemed to want to have it done and have their kids be able to go out and play in a safe environment. you helped them out and I wouldn't be afraid to let them know

 

[DwightD123]

you did fine...dont worry at all.

 

[JimP]

When we first moved in all we had was a John Deere lawn tractor. We could never really cut the weeds growing along the driveway. One day we came home and found a 30 foot strip along the driveway mowed. We were grateful but didn't know who had mowed it. Turns out the (good) neighbor was brushhogging and made a few passes along our driveway. We thanked him and have been friends since.

I would go over when they were home and introduce myself. I can't see how they would be upset.

 

[moored4]

Like the others have said, Go by and tell what you did! And it won't hurt to have a fresh backed pie or a big batch of cookies in hand! :thumbsup:

 

[daybreak1998]

Howdy,
Good neighbor job.
It seems that someone with larger property and as such larger equipment, is always more willing to help out. Same thing happens around here. You see a city person with a tiny 42" lawn mower trying to tackle 3 acres of true field (grown to around 2 feet) trying to mow it down. Just doesn't work. With the 15' batwing bushhog hooked up and already mowing my fields, takes just a few minutes there, and its done. I might not visit my neighbors when it only snows 4 inches, (everyone has 4WD), but, when we getted dumped with 26", its time to go visit and clear some driveways.

 

[Redneck in training]

When we moved from the city to the country we didn't have a tractor for some time. One neighbor graded our driveway and the other moved our ditch and pond dam with his side mover and dug us out from snow in the winter. We never asked for help but appreciated it for sure. I let him harvest hay from about 25 ac in return. Well he restored the weed eye sore to a meadow in the process. Still owe him.
I doubt that they won't be grateful for what you did for them. In any case since it is already done it is late to worry about that too much.

 

[LBrown59]

Got some new neighbors. Neighbor beeing a relative term since where we are is very rural and houses or clusters of houses are pretty spread out.

One of the oldest houses in the county is less than a mile down the road from our place. Neat old house sits on 3 acres now. Rest of it sold off long ago and is all farmland around it. Some people have been trying to renovate it and flip it, two different sets of them, for several years. Housing crashed they abandoned it and it foreclosed. Needless to say it is pretty grown up. Lots of mature trees that he storms in April tore up pretty good and no one has cleaned it up.

A younger couple bought it. I noticed a couple of cars there for a couple of weeks and saw a moving truck unload there a couple of weeks ago. I stopped in one evening and introduced myself, gave them our number and me and my wifes name and welcomed them to the neighborhood. They had young children and told me they weren't letting them play outside much since it was so grown up. They had a smaller Snapper rider, but hadn't tackled the outside yet. This bugged me so this past Saturday I rode down with my tractor and bush hog. They weren't home, I thought about it and just went ahead and mowed most of it. Picked up the big limbs with the FEL and put them on a pile of limbs already started. They never came home before I left. I haven't been back down there.

Now I'm hoping I didn't freak them out. They aren't from around here or the country. I don't care to be thanked, but in hindsight I hope I didn't offend them. If they are city people they might not take it well someone was "invading their space" when they weren't there.

*What say you, should I approach them again or let a sleeping dog lay.

*I have done such things for my neighbors but never without volunteering or being asked and always with their approval .

 

[BMW]

I'm going to partially disagree with most of the replies: Yes it was a kind thing to do and you're probably okay, but you should have asked first. I would have been pissed. I don't like people on my property without asking first, especially with large power equipment. Before I got a bush-hog, a friend came over and cut my back field without me knowing. He did a nice job and it looked really good. The problem is that there was a lot of black walnut saplings in there that I wanted to keep.

 

[Willl]

While I know his intentions meant good, it would still bother me he was on my property without permission.

I'm just goofy that way.

 

[D7E]

I would call it tresspassing !