Push mowers are obsolete.

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AmericanTurf....those lawn stripes in your picture do look nice. But the thing is you said you can get 3 lawns done by the time a push mower is halfway done with one. That is true on that lawn, but chances are I would not do that yard with a push mower! Yards that are smaller look nice when done with a push mower. Some people only want their yard push mowed, or like skinnier stripes.
 

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AmericanTurf....those lawn stripes in your picture do look nice. But the thing is you said you can get 3 lawns done by the time a push mower is halfway done with one. That is true on that lawn, but chances are I would not do that yard with a push mower! Yards that are smaller look nice when done with a push mower. Some people only want their yard push mowed, or like skinnier stripes.

Absolutely correct in my opinion
 

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AmericanTurf....those lawn stripes in your picture do look nice. But the thing is you said you can get 3 lawns done by the time a push mower is halfway done with one. That is true on that lawn, but chances are I would not do that yard with a push mower! Yards that are smaller look nice when done with a push mower. Some people only want their yard push mowed, or like skinnier stripes.

I think that was the point he was trying to make, the push mower is something he wouldn't do that yard with. I believe he was talking about using the Grasshopper that's why he said he could do three like that in the time it would take someone with a push to do that same lawn or at least that's the way I under stood it. I do believe your right though that a push mower on smaller yards are hard to beat.
 
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Hay ric, I used to live in Florida..saint petersburg for 6 years. I saw a lot of dixie choppers. I went to work for a guy mowing. I dint last a day. lol. Fricking 100 degreas out. Props to you hot state mowers!
 

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Hay ric, I used to live in Florida..saint petersburg for 6 years. I saw a lot of dixie choppers. I went to work for a guy mowing. I dint last a day. lol. Fricking 100 degreas out. Props to you hot state mowers!

I'm alright with the temps, it the dang temps with the high humidity that gets you. The first year I started the business I was at 210 lbs when summer finished I was 177 lbs. Who needs weight watchers :laughing:
 
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I'm alright with the temps, it the dang temps with the high humidity that gets you. The first year I started the business I was at 210 lbs when summer finished I was 177 lbs. Who needs weight watchers :laughing:

:laughing::laughing: There are a lot of lawn care businesses already. If everyone started a lawn care business who was trying to lose weight, there would be way too many businesses! :laughing:
 

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I'm alright with the temps, it the dang temps with the high humidity that gets you. The first year I started the business I was at 210 lbs when summer finished I was 177 lbs. Who needs weight watchers :laughing:

hey ric, since you live in florida, you must still be mowing correct?
 
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I don't know who's leg he trying to pull. But I know this much: nobody pays someone a $175 to cut a small residential lawn. Not even in Hollywood.
 
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I don't know who's leg he trying to pull. But I know this much: nobody pays someone a $175 to cut a small residential lawn. Not even in Hollywood.

Who are you referring to that charges people too much in your opinion? Carscw?
 

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i have only one customer and it takes 2 weeks to mow his yard, so when i finish it is time to start over. i guess here in indiana we have bigger yards.
 
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