Mowing Most Inexpensive Solution For Lawn Mowing

[Spiveyman]

I have 36 of those machines already! And they do come in the yard from time to time. But they do a number on the lilac bushes!

Here are the troops going through the timber!

Ha! That's great! Who'd have thunk it? I can see where an indiscriminate muncher could do some serious damage.

Now I'm not sure what I said in this thread to deserve any particular note or reference...

Dougster, I didn't know where that came from either, but figured there was an inside joke there somewhere. I'm pretty new here and haven't met that many folks yet. So, Howdy from a fellow frugal engineer.

As for the tractor being too big.... hmmm... I guess that's possible, but isn't that kind of like a girl that's too pretty. More power!

 

[Dougster]

Dougster, I didn't know where that came from either, but figured there was an inside joke there somewhere. I'm pretty new here and haven't met that many folks yet. So, Howdy from a fellow frugal engineer. As for the tractor being too big.... hmmm... I guess that's possible, but isn't that kind of like a girl that's too pretty. More power!

Oh, Ed just likes to goof on me 'cause he owns a new 4530 and lives in a fancy hotel and eats Lobsta and Fillet Mignon with a perfect Dry Martini every single night. Meanwhile I eat generic peanut butter sandwiches made on bread I get from the stale bread store.

How does that song go? "Some gotta win, some got to lose... good time Charlie's got the blues..."

Dougster

 

[Spiveyman]

Oh, Ed just likes to goof on me 'cause he owns a new 4530 and lives in a fancy hotel and eats Lobsta and Fillet Mignon with a perfect Dry Martini every single night. Meanwhile I eat generic peanut butter sandwiches made on bread I get from the stale bread store.

How does that song go? "Some gotta win, some got to lose... good time Charlie's got the blues..."

Dougster

HA! Well, then I'm in the right place. I just came in off the farm, where I had to hoof it because my tractor's in the shop, and had my supper - peanut butter sandwhich and Doritos. Didn't even have jelly and the bread was some cheap bread we bought to make dough balls to teach my little girl how to fish. I basically ate bate. So I guess Ed's eating caviar while I'm eating bate.

 

[Dougster]

So I guess Ed's eating caviar while I'm eating bate.

Exactly! I think you've grasped the situation perfectly.

Dougster

 

[bindian]

I'll go ahead and apologize for this one up front, under the "no useful contribution to the actual thread topic" category

This came to mind when I saw the topic heading:

To be honest, I thought of goats at first. But a little Mahindra would be sweet to have for mowing. I would buy one myself if Mahindra made a zero turn mower. I bought my Hustler Fast Trak last fall and it can mow in half the time what a front steering wheel mower can do and still mow close to objects, giving the yard the look only a weedeater can add. I even mow my pasture with it. That is, when my son is not on it mowing. Bottom line, it gives me more time on the Big Red Beast to play in the dirt.
But buying anything new is a moot point now, as my college daughter's car needed a $2900 transmission rebuild. I decided to trade the car off on a 2003 Dodge Ram. But this ram doesn't eat grass.
Dougster,
Any tractor you can park in your house's garage is little.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Dougster]

But buying anything new is a moot point now, as my college daughter's car needed a $2900 transmission rebuild. I decided to trade the car off on a 2003 Dodge Ram. But this ram doesn't eat grass.

Oh come on now Brandi! You can't rebuild a little car transmission???

Dougster, Any tractor you can park in your house's garage is little.
hugs, Brandi

Ouch!!! Now that hurt!!!

Dougster

 

[Tim_in_IA]

To be honest, I thought of goats at first. But a little Mahindra would be sweet to have for mowing. I would buy one myself if Mahindra made a zero turn mower. I bought my Hustler Fast Trak last fall and it can mow in half the time what a front steering wheel mower can do and still mow close to objects, giving the yard the look only a weedeater can add. I even mow my pasture with it. That is, when my son is not on it mowing. Bottom line, it gives me more time on the Big Red Beast to play in the dirt.
But buying anything new is a moot point now, as my college daughter's car needed a $2900 transmission rebuild. I decided to trade the car off on a 2003 Dodge Ram. But this ram doesn't eat grass.
Dougster,
Any tractor you can park in your house's garage is little.
hugs, Brandi

Brandi that is a nice lookin' lawnmower. But how do you attach a loader?

I am just tired of the regular lawn mowers and their little 4 cycle engines. They seem to just up and die on you whenever they feel like it. I've been reading about repowering my JD210 with a Briggs and Straton Vanguard 18hp but that would be $1-1.6k. I'd rather have a small diesel cut that I could clean out buildings with also and other small jobs where my 6500 can't reach.

Don't know if it's going to happen this fall though. I am rebuilding a 73 JEEP, putting a new radiator and water pump in my 440IC JD crawler, new points and coil and maybe regulator in the 300 IH utility, and trying to get the regular chores done at the same time. Might have to wait till next year. Hopefully I can make the 210 limp along to keep the lawn down otherwise the goats have another field to take care of .

 

[Spiveyman]

...daughter's car needed a $2900 transmission rebuild.

Howdy Brandi,
Wow!!! OK, I drive Ford trucks, which means I'm very familiar with rebuilding transmissions - well, that is to say I'm familiar with paying someone else to do that. Most expensive one was about $1800. What was your daughter driving that's so expensive? Ferrari?

Any tractor you can park in your house's garage is little.

What if you live in a barn? Some of the horse barns here in KY are nicer than my house.

As for Zero Turn mowers, you can't beat a Grasshopper, front deck instead of a belly deck, but they are pricey. I really like the EXmark brand as well. Made very well, excellent cut, controls easy to access.

 

[Dougster]

"Any tractor you can park in your house's garage is little."

What if you live in a barn? Some of the horse barns here in KY are nicer than my house.

Clearly, we need some clarification here from Brandi. All houses, garages and barns are not created equal. My garage is actually bigger than my house... at least in terms of footprint. And does it matter that I bought the very biggest tractor that would fit inside that garage? And that the BH and ROPS must both be fully lowered to get it in while someone holds or braces the garage door in a fully retracted position?

Before Brandi's statement is voted a new TBN classic... I demand a recount!!!

Dougster

 

[Spiveyman]

Clearly, we need some clarification here from Brandi. All houses, garages and barns are not created equal. My garage is actually bigger than my house... at least in terms of footprint. And does it matter that I bought the very biggest tractor that would fit inside that garage? And that the BH and ROPS must both be fully lowered to get it in while someone holds or braces the garage door in a fully retracted position?

Before Brandi's statement is voted a new TBN classic... I demand a recount!!!

I'm thinking that statement is already a classic! I loved it.

I'm also impressed at the forethought you had in purchasing a your tractor with respect to the garage that would house it. I wish I had your wisdom. First I bought a truck that wouldn't fit in my 1.9 car garage, so it's doomed for out door parking, then I bought a tractor that's too tall for my barn! I can get it in one section of a shed on one side of my barn. I have my implements ligned up in a shed on the other side, but with the new canopy I just realized I won't be able to back in there and get them! The ROPS was already scraping the beam! Well. I guess I need a new barn now.