Ride on Lawnmowers

[cleanhands]

Are they good for manicuring patches to achieve something like a landing strip?

Just lower the cutting height

 

[Velvet George]

Just lower the cutting height

There you go 1970crow

 

[cleanhands]

Are they good for manicuring patches to achieve something like a landing strip?

May require thatching first

 

[Mutineer]

I've had quite a few over the last 20 years or so ranging from a yankee big White Rider through to my current Cox rider. One big tip, don't go near anything with a pressed metal deck, they **** up all the time if you do any sort of hard work with them. Insist on a welded fabricated deck and you'll have far less problems...Greenfields are OK but tend to have rear axle problems when they get a bit of age on them. Most John Deere and Husquys have pressed metal decks unless you get up into their premium models.

Cox would be my choice unless you want to get up into the commercial models like Hustler etc, therein lies the clincher, all commercial Riders have FABRICATED DECKS

 

[Velvet George]

Just lower the cutting height

What if you wanted to clear the patch completely?

 

[Mutineer]

Currently looking at getting a second hand one

Don't touch anything with pressed metal decks if you intend doing any hard work or mowing long grass.

 

[cleanhands]

What if you wanted to clear the patch completely?

 

[Mutineer]

Roundup...

 

[Eagleboy2011]

Roundup...

I'm not sure he wants to totally Nuke it. Maybe he does.

 

[Mutineer]

I'm not sure he wants to totally Nuke it. Maybe he does.

triad Select is the gear most gilf courses use for killing broad leaf weeds without nuking the grass too.

 

[FR0GGY]

John deer trumps all…

 

[Two Eight]

Got a Cub Cadet up here on the Sunny Coast. Need to cut the lawn every 10 days or so, it grows so fast in the summer up here. She goes well, no problems with it at all.

 

[Mutineer]

John deer trumps all…

Not what Commercial lawnmower blokes will tell you unless you're talking their commercial mowers with FABRICATED decks.

Edit : The pressed metal decks get metal fatigue and crack and are very hard to weld...a new pressed metal deck for a John Deere garden variety Rider will set you back north of $2,400 plus fitting.

 

[spenze]

When we were kids and up on our grandparents' farm near Kadina, our grandpa would set us up on his ride on mower (turn blades off) and hitch a trailer to the back of it - he then gave us a giant magnet and one of us would be in the trailer with said magnet dragging behind the while the other drives around - magnet would pick up all the bits of metal around the farm property and he gets us to clean it all up while we are having the best time "driving"

You don't think they are too noisy in the morning?

 

[Mutineer]

You don't think they are too noisy in the morning?

I think you just nailed him...LOL

 

[spenze]

I have been thinking about mucking around and putting a super charger on the ol' Husqvarna. Could set that over a rabbit hole and have mince rabbit.

 

[1970crow]

May require thatching first

Thatch is good, it’s how it’s manicured that matters.

 

[1970crow]

What if you wanted to clear the patch completely?

Nobody in their right mind wants to completely scalp the thatch.

 

[Doctor B]

What if you wanted to clear the patch completely?

Sounds like a Big White Rider or a Cox would do a landing strip easily!

 

[1970crow]

triad Select is the gear most gilf courses use for killing broad leaf weeds without nuking the grass too.

Bow and Arrow is a great broad leaf killer.

 

[1970crow]

I have been thinking about mucking around and putting a super charger on the ol' Husqvarna. Could set that over a rabbit hole and have mince rabbit.

I’d you want to do that, mechanic at work can help. He’s great at all that kind of weird bolting on stuff.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Has anyone seen The Straight Story?

 

[spenze]

Has anyone seen The Straight Story?

Just Lawnmower talk here son, back to the Collingwood board thanks

 

[Samcro24]

Just Lawnmower talk here son, back to the Collingwood board thanks

Evidently it’s about a bloke who rides a lawnmower 390km.

 

[FR0GGY]

Nobody in their right mind wants to completely scalp the thatch.

Yep drop that deck to the ground