Alright I just wanted to have a little fun with a thread....:wink:
So Guys and Gals whats the deepest grass you have ever cut and/or tried to cut?
Please give a detailed account of your success or failure...
#2
lawn mower fanatic
This was earlier this year. It actually worked surprisingly well with the powerful GCV190 engine! :thumbsup:
#3
reynoldston
I have a camp in the mountains and there are times I don't get to cut the grass for two or three months. It can be long. What I do is the first cutting I cut it as high as I can cut it. Then after it sets for a day or two I will cut it a little shorter and then again. I also have to clean up the clippings after each cutting. I also put round-up weed killer around all the trees, buildings and rocks.
I took my old craftsman through a weedy field that wasn't mowed for a few years I had to tip the mower up to cut down all the tiny trees and the weeds were probably 2 feet high and the bottom 6 inches was where it all bent over. 5000 sq ft and 4 gallons of gas plus a new blade and about 3 truck loads I had that field looking good
Wasn't really grass , chest high weeds ( and the accompanying saplings ) with my first snapper comet 30 .
That mower was a beast !!! I got tired of riding up the weeds and trees till the front wheels were a foot or so off the ground and backing up for the next charge for couple feet of brush hogging .
2" alum. angle iron with bolt holes through it , ground a bevel edge on one side . Bolted to the front of the mower helped a bunch !! Added an 8" cinder block above it for extra weight and it worked well ( ok , the mower and I lived through it ) :thumbsup:
#6
BWH
I grew up on a farm and the tallest grass I ever mowed was hemp weed along the creek trying to take over the pasture that was over 9 feet high. Of course I was using a 120 HP diesel tractor pulling a 12 foot shredder. Out here we call it Nebraska Ditch Weed! Most interesting is the tractor had no problem at all with the tall hemp.
My neighbor recently passed away her lawn was over 2ft in spots the spots her ex husband tried to mow with a hand mower. I should have video'ed it was comical the mower would go a ft then die , then another foot then die , he did that for a hour or so only mowing a 20x20 section. Poor mower ...
I was in shock somebody that age would even attempt to mow 2-1/2 ft tall grass while wet with a push mower.
The next day I mowed it ....A man needs his comedy. :thumbsup:
I let my yard out in the country get ahead of me one time and it got up around 3 or 4 foot high in sections. I had been using the weed whacker to keep it down around the house and sidewalk...but in the back and sides it got way too high. Too high for a riding mower or push mower, so I hooked the 5' bush hog to the big Massey Ferguson 165 and eased through it without even as much as a mild strain on the engine. Of course it leaves the grass "stemmy and tough" and yellowish when you cut it after being high, but it will eventually come back like it was. So, I've got insurance with mowing in that it can't get too high that the bush hog can't handle it in one season. I'd like to find one of these mini diesel garden tractors with a blade and bucket and mini bush hog like a Kubota. That would be much easier to maneuver around the yard than a big tractor.
it would have to be the 2-1/2 acres i had out near the road on i place i had. the weeds about 4-6 feet tall. tried mowing it with a JD 116 that kept getting hung up on the mole hills. then pulled out the cubcadet 383, and went to work cutting it like it was used to doing just that. of course it was a two in one cut. had to cut one way(back and forth) then diagonaly to get it to look good
#11
Kodie's Lawn Service
Deepest grass I mowed since I started a mowing for work was today actually it was 2 feet tall and took me 2 hours to mow it because they wanted it bagged but the pay was good so I guess all was good :laughing:
Deepest grass I mowed since I started a mowing for work was today actually it was 2 feet tall and took me 2 hours to mow it because they wanted it bagged but the pay was good so I guess all was good :laughing:
I would probably tell them to find someone else. They don't care enough to maintain I don't care enough to spend hours trying to bag. I would tell them best I can do is with my toro WOT side discharge as low as I can. Come back next week and mow taller then previous week and bag
Last season my neighbour needed her field cut so I quickly volunteered my 1026R with 48" rotory mower. It was tough sloggin but I got it knocked down. It ranged from a foot to three feet tall over the 4 or 5 acres of field. It didn't look all that pretty either but she wanted it knocked down to reduce the fire hazard in the fall.
Last season my neighbour needed her field cut so I quickly volunteered my 1026R with 48" rotory mower. It was tough sloggin but I got it knocked down. It ranged from a foot to three feet tall over the 4 or 5 acres of field. It didn't look all that pretty either but she wanted it knocked down to reduce the fire hazard in the fall.
