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tragabigzanda wrote:
Bammer wrote:At age 41, I hired out lawn mowing for the first time in my life a few months ago.

Never going back.
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We pay a college kid next door $25/hr for all sorts of odd jobs: Mowing, hedge trimming, snow shoveling. Yes it's all stuff I can easily do but the time savings is so worth it.
i need one of those! we pay a girl to walk the dog once in a while but i don't know if she'd be up to mowing
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tree_ wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Bammer wrote:At age 41, I hired out lawn mowing for the first time in my life a few months ago.

Never going back.
here here

We pay a college kid next door $25/hr for all sorts of odd jobs: Mowing, hedge trimming, snow shoveling. Yes it's all stuff I can easily do but the time savings is so worth it.
i need one of those! we pay a girl to walk the dog once in a while but i don't know if she'd be up to mowing

You don't even walk your own dog?
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tree_ wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Bammer wrote:At age 41, I hired out lawn mowing for the first time in my life a few months ago.

Never going back.
here here

We pay a college kid next door $25/hr for all sorts of odd jobs: Mowing, hedge trimming, snow shoveling. Yes it's all stuff I can easily do but the time savings is so worth it.
i need one of those! we pay a girl to walk the dog once in a while but i don't know if she'd be up to mowing
Does she pick up its poop?
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i used to... kinda hard to find time with a toddler and a baby and a full time job

gotta ask the wife about her picking up poop.. dunno
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I used to have people cut our grass. But they would ride one of those riding lawnmowers that you stand on, and they would cut the grass no matter if it was raining or if it was dry. They killed my lawn with tire marks and ruts when the lawn was wet. I do it myself now. But we still use a service at the lake because we’re not up there every week.
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dad wrote:and that's with watering twice a day.
When are you watering it?

Try watering it in the early morning for longer but only every other day.
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dad wrote:and that's with watering twice a day.
When are you watering it?

Try watering it in the early morning for longer but only every other day.
sprinklers are set to go off around 5 am. and we've tried for longer. it's really a combination of all this heat, and the fact that our yard is atop of red dirt. i think at the outset, if we'd have had real dirt laid down before the sod it would stand a better chance. too expensive.
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You guys shouldn't be wasting water on your lawns
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dad wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:
dad wrote:and that's with watering twice a day.
When are you watering it?

Try watering it in the early morning for longer but only every other day.
sprinklers are set to go off around 5 am. and we've tried for longer. it's really a combination of all this heat, and the fact that our yard is atop of red dirt. i think at the outset, if we'd have had real dirt laid down before the sod it would stand a better chance. too expensive.
pm the bammer account for tips on converting your grass to artificial turf.
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I like to mow. It's exercise with a podcast and the smell of freshly cut grass.
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Monkey_Driven wrote:I like to mow. It's exercise with a podcast and the smell of freshly cut grass.
or dust if you’re dad
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not all lawns are created equal, mind you. My yard is a pain in the ass to mow
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Chris_H_2 wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:I like to mow. It's exercise with a podcast and the smell of freshly cut grass.
or dust if you’re dad
it's true. i wish i had lush grass.
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dad mows dirt
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tree_ wrote:not all lawns are created equal, mind you. My yard is a pain in the ass to mow
full of nightcrawlers? all bumpy?
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doug rr wrote:
tree_ wrote:not all lawns are created equal, mind you. My yard is a pain in the ass to mow
full of nightcrawlers? all bumpy?
very bumpy, some hills, kinda big , pushmower

it was a new home when we bought it a few years ago, and it was all dirt... they did plant/ level the yard before we moved in but they did a pretty shitty job.. and all the rain has made it even more bumpy over the last few years
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this is my yard before we moved in

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