Mowing...hate it or love it

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1 hour ago, Jar11591 said:

2 days, 30+ lawns worth of clippings. Easily over 6 cubic yards. Went the entire month of august without collecting a single clipping because it was so dry. Then we got an entire season’s worth of rain in 2 weeks. 

That is a lot of clippings!

[Jar11591]

14 hours ago, gimruis said:

That is a lot of clippings!

Equipment took a real beating this week! 

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3 hours ago, Jar11591 said:

Equipment took a real beating this week! 

People don’t like their grass mulched huh?  It’s a lot better for the lawn if you mulch it instead of bagging it.

[Jar11591]

6 hours ago, gimruis said:

People don’t like their grass mulched huh?  It’s a lot better for the lawn if you mulch it instead of bagging it.

I wish. A few people just want their lawn scalped and couldn’t care less about what it looks like but most of our customers are very “particular” and will complain if it’s not bagged. Even when mulched. We upcharge it but with the amount of rain we’ve had it was beyond brutal. 
 

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9 minutes ago, Jar11591 said:

A few people just want their lawn scalped

I can't figure out why a couple of my neighbors do this either.  They mow it so freaking short and then never water it.  It turns into scorched earth within a week if we don't get any rain.

[Jar11591]

44 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I can't figure out why a couple of my neighbors do this either.  They mow it so freaking short and then never water it.  It turns into scorched earth within a week if we don't get any rain.

Really makes no sense especially for the people who have a mowing service. If you’re going to pay me to mow your lawn every week regardless, why would you want it to be burnt to a crisp? Just so I can dust it with my mower? Makes my job easier I guess but it looks terrible. Can’t make sense of it lol 

[TnRiver46]

On 9/16/2022 at 7:32 PM, J Francho said:

Funny this came up. Just had my first visit from the landscapers. I feel so high class right now, lol. 

Cake eater 

[A-Jay]

Blew out the irrigation system with the air compressor for the 'winter' yesterday. 

Still need to pull the fuse & cover the A/C unit as well as winterize the mowers & blowers.

Be a few more weeks for that though.

A-Jay

[J Francho]

My pool is still open, lol. 

[Jigfishn10]

10 minutes ago, J Francho said:

My pool is still open, lol. 

Mine as well, the water was 60* yesterday. The ocean in Maine was warmer.  

 

My boat is out and the winter ball is on the mooring.

[J Francho]

My pool is still close to 80. I'll still be wearing waders when I get in to remove the staircase. 

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4 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Blew out the irrigation system with the air compressor for the 'winter' yesterday.

You do that yourself huh? The company that installed my system is doing it for free this fall (first week of October) but maybe I should look into doing this myself in the future.

[casts_by_fly]

7 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Blew out the irrigation system with the air compressor for the 'winter' yesterday. 

Still need to pull the fuse & cover the A/C unit as well as winterize the mowers & blowers.

Be a few more weeks for that though.

A-Jay

I don’t close my irrigation for another 4 weeks or so. I’ve still got new-ish grass and I’m pushing growth as hard as I can before frost. 

 

4 hours ago, J Francho said:

My pool is still close to 80. I'll still be wearing waders when I get in to remove the staircase. 

we normally close mid to end of October. It’s about 78 right now and we normally have one fall time party where we crank the heater up to 90 for the evening. I also like to close it when the water is sub 50 because algae can’t grow at that temp. So as long as I open and close below that there is never green algae. 

 

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

You do that yourself huh? The company that installed my system is doing it for free this fall (first week of October) but maybe I should look into doing this myself in the future.

i blew out my system last fall but didn’t do it well enough and had a bunch of splits from the cold winter. If you do it yourself, you need a pretty high flow compressor and a fitting to attach to the system. 

[A-Jay]

6 hours ago, gimruis said:

You do that yourself huh? The company that installed my system is doing it for free this fall (first week of October) but maybe I should look into doing this myself in the future.

Watch them do it once.

Then you'll know what you need and how to do it. It's easy and I was tied of waiting for a guy.  Compressors are cheap and handy for other projects. 

Like filling truck, trailer and mower tires.

A-Jay

 

[casts_by_fly]

5 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Watch them do it once.

Then you'll know what you need and how to do it. It's easy and I was tied of waiting for a guy.  Compressors are cheap and handy for other projects. 

Like filling truck, trailer and mower tires.

A-Jay

 

 

Did you get a high flow compressor to do it?  I bought a pancake compressor for all the other reasons you mentioned.  It is super handy to have one.  I watched the guy blow them out last time and picked up the fitting to do it.  I did not do a good job...

[A-Jay]

19 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

Did you get a high flow compressor to do it?  I bought a pancake compressor for all the other reasons you mentioned.  It is super handy to have one.  I watched the guy blow them out last time and picked up the fitting to do it.  I did not do a good job...

It's a tank unit that puts out 140 psi.

Blows out 4 long zones. I run it through two times. 

Has been good for five years now I think.

A-Jay 

 

[casts_by_fly]

58 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

It's a tank unit that puts out 140 psi.

Blows out 4 long zones. I run it through two times. 

Has been good for five years now I think.

A-Jay 

 

 

thanks.  Mine is also tank and can do that pressure.  In talking to the guy the first time, he said it wasn't as much the pressure as the total sustained volume that was more important.  Same for blowing out the pool lines.  I think I must not have done something right.

[A-Jay]

16 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

thanks.  Mine is also tank and can do that pressure.  In talking to the guy the first time, he said it wasn't as much the pressure as the total sustained volume that was more important.  Same for blowing out the pool lines.  I think I must not have done something right.

I just run it until there's no water left in the linez. Like I said it takes at least two runs.  And I was wrong about the units capacity.

It's  2.5 hp.  10 gal. 125 psi.

A-Jay

[12poundbass]

I’ve winterized a house before. You want to talk about nerve racking! An irrigation system would be a piece of cake. ?

[casts_by_fly]

17 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I’ve winterized a house before. You want to talk about nerve racking! An irrigation system would be a piece of cake. ?

 

I have 26 zones and 3-8 heads per zone...  Its a large cake.  

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1 hour ago, casts_by_fly said:

I have 26 zones and 3-8 heads per zone... 

Whoa.

 

I have 8 zones and 3-5 heads per zone.  I am going to watch them do it in October and make an assessment on whether its something I can do myself in the future.

[12poundbass]

4 hours ago, casts_by_fly said:

 

I have 26 zones and 3-8 heads per zone...  Its a large cake.  

Separate well for your system?

[casts_by_fly]

20 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Separate well for your system?

Nope. It doesn’t run the same time as the rest of the house so there is no issue there. Plus our well has good pressure. 

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

Whoa.

 

I have 8 zones and 3-5 heads per zone.  I am going to watch them do it in October and make an assessment on whether its something I can do myself in the future.

Our house sits in the middle and the yard is broken up into a couple areas. It’s about 14000 sqft total with 3 areas of 4k and pretty square and then 4 smaller areas. It means you can’t just put in a big line of powerful sprayers and get everything in one. 

[LonnieP]

I love mowing grass. I find it very relaxing 

[Hawgfinder]

I’d rather mow lawn than shovel snow.