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Re: Covered In Dirt 

By: DGpeddler in SURV | Recommend this post (2)
Fri, 10 Jun 16 12:22 AM | 70 view(s)
Boardmark this board | SURVIVAL 		Msg. 00286 of 00575
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I have a bit of a sunburn but I do not
worry about it. I have got them all my
life. When I was younger, I could put
skin lotion on and the burn would be
completely gone the next day. Now it
takes longer.

The land I was mowing does have some
problems but I know where they are.
What irritates me is that I mowed two
weeks ago before the rain started and
now the weeds are monsters. Some were
so big that I would have to back up
and hit them hard. They were 5 feet
tall and so close together that they
would stop the mower. Fortunately I
did not have but about 20 by 40 feet
of those. The other weeds were about
two feet tall. My two bladed mower
chops that stuff up fairly well.


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Re: Covered In Dirt
By: Decomposed in SURV
Thu, 09 Jun 16 10:44 PM 		Msg. 00285 of 00575

DG: 

re: "The riding mower throws it
out and the wind blows it back on me.

I don't know if you own a tractor, but one thing I love about pulling a brush hog behind the tractor is that there's nothing that flies out. Everything just drops to the ground beneath the brush hog. It also does a reasonable job of taking down invasive trees, breaking up branches, and pretty much dealing with whatever's there except for wire (which I hit once.) Since the blades are a good 3 or 4 inches off the ground, I can cut through deep grass without too much worry of hitting a rock. It happens sometimes, but I've learned where most of the hazards of that size are.

I still worry when going through the deepest stuff since there are a few holes on my lot. Once upon a time, there was a barn built upon a stone foundation. When the barn came down, they just covered over the foundation with dirt. A lot of that has collapsed, so the area is unpredictable. If one of the tractor's small front tires went into a hole, would the tractor roll? It probably depends on the angle I'm at when it happens, and it's something I don't particularly want to learn!

I'm pretty comfortable now mowing with the tractor. The biggest problems I have with it tend to be horse flies and sunburns. 

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