I hate grass.

[basjoos]

I use an all natural mowing system on my lawn. Conventional lawn mowing requires spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on equipment and fuel to cut the grass, are noisy and stinky when operating, takes time out of the day to mow the grass, and the equipment eventually wears out and has to be rebuilt or replaced.

By contrast, my lawn mowing system is a profit center, fertilizes the lawn as it mows, is quiet and odorless in operation, has a fully automatic mowing function requiring little of my time, the mowing units replace themselves as they wear out, and put meat on the table.

As you might have figured out, my lawn mowers are sheep, which I rotate through the lawn from their usual pastures as needed to keep the lawn cut Their main drawback is that the ornamental plants in my yard have to be plants that they don't like to eat or need to be fenced off from the sheep. The only real maintenance they require is hoof trimming once or twice a year.

[Varn]

I don't enjoy mowing grass. We have about 3/4ths of an acre of might be considered a lawn. We tried using sheep for about 6 months but they were not effective for us. Only eating the clover and talk about pollution, greasy crap all over. Sold the sheep and got a diesel tractor with bushog. I mow about every 2-3 weeks. We have another 10 acres of grass that I let an amish guy mow and bale. He feeds his cattle and sheep in the winter. Near perfect recycling.

We heat with wood using harvested downed trees in our forest. They grow and fall on their own. Our house is off the grid at home. We only get there on the weekends. Have a small solar array and use a generator to supplement. Sorry for getting off topic.

[bhazard]

Greasy crap?

ew

[basjoos]

Sheep don't have greasy crap, if you want to see greasy crap, check out geese crap. My sheep leave behind little accumulations of dry, pea-sized pellets, which in the summer break down into the soil in about a week. When I rotate my flock of sheep through the yard from the pastures, I stock them at a level where they graze everything down in the day or two they spend in the yard before going back to the pasture.

[Arragonis]

Its mower interesting

[Frank Lee]

Heart the ATCO Safety Car!

[mloveland78]

I'm neutral on grass, don't mind the stuff but don't see the point in keeping it perfect. There's nothing natural about perfection. With that said I have a B&D cordless electric mower that works great. I can't say enough good things about it. It cuts my 1/4 acre in one charge and does a great job of mulching the clippings.

[Buxtonski]

I prefer just to let it turn into a meadow. Fly-mo's are a hassle to manhandle around, and you can't turn the petrol ones (pushed/driven, not ride on).

[NeilBlanchard]

I bought a Fiskars "Momentum" reel mower today and I heartily endorse it. You have to use this mower to understand and appreciate it's seemingly bass-ackwards design. The drive wheels being in the rear means they can't be lifted off the ground, and the frictionless reel doesn't touch the shear bar (though the grass does) and so the reel spins for a long time, and it is *very* quiet and very smooth.

I will try it on the really thick grass, but I'm guessing it will do fine. The reel is heavy and has a lot of momentum (hence the name). The handle is also very sturdy. The four wheels on the base move along the ground in a way that is quite different than other mowers.

It is quite different, but there is a reason; and the results speak for themselves.

http://www2.fiskars.com/Pr​oducts/Ya...#8203;l-Mowers


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[redneck]

I would almost rather be kicked in the jewels, than cut grass...

Honestly, if it weren't for BEER, I don't think the lawn would get cut...








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