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[Zoe]

Sounds like a really nice setup! I'd love to have a pond.

I saw a cottontail rabbit yesterday and today. I have not seen one in a while. I have deer walk up to my front door. LOL

Rabbits are getting scarce. I probably helped. I killed many and ate them when I was young in a different location. But I have hundreds of acres that are vacant behind me. Coyotes, skunks, etc.etc.

It was an Easter bunny I saw.

 

[Zoe]

I guess I should put some food back for the easter bunny. Let me study that. I feed my birds. These dang cowbirds hoard it. They are a menace. They are the birds that lay their eggs in another birds nest and let the momma hatch their babies. They are a somewhat brown headed blackbird.

I just take the feeder off sometimes. I guess I could go ballistic. We can shoot where I live legally. I have many songbirds that feed. I could wipe out a few cowbirds pretty quick. LOL

Leave them on the ground for friends to know what will happen.

 

[Zoe]

Birds of a feather flock together.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I have a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. Every so often I take it to the local auto parts store and dump it into their recycling container, no charge

That's a good idea. Maybe I will start doing that. We dispose used oil at the landfill.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I just got a new zero turn delivered yesterday. I worked 1 1/2 days on my husqvarna tractor last week. Had to replace steering rods. Not fun at all. It took me forever. I was nasty. I need both. I have flat land and rough land and places I don't want to put the zero turn in . Some zero turns say not intended for hilly land, like only flat land. That husqvarna tractor I have will mow anywhere. I sharpened blades on it yesterday before mowing. Ordered a tune up kit for it. It is 24 HP, 48 inch cut. It is 12 years old.

Don't talk to me about maintenance. LOL

I think the new zero turn is 46 inch cut and maybe 22-23hp. Idk. Have to finish appraisal today. Help pay for the mower. I live in the boonies. The zero turn I got says it is intended for hilly land or flat land.

Many zero turns will say only intended for relatively flat land.

It is not great on slopes. Especially if trying to go sideways on the hill. It's not bad going up and down the hill. Sideways is a little sketchy. But I don't know if a tractor is any less sketchy going sideways.

 

[Joe Flacco]

46" deck is too small for 4 acres. I have a 50" deck and If I had to do it again I would get at least a 60" deck.

 

[Zoe]

It is not great on slopes. Especially if trying to go sideways on the hill. It's not bad going up and down the hill. Sideways is a little sketchy. But I don't know if a tractor is any less sketchy going sideways.

Mine has a roll bar I will have to attach but I don't have that kind of terrain. I just have roots and dips and wet areas I don't want to put it in. My conventional Husqvarna or weedeater can handle it. I sprayed round up across the good grass way back with the Husqvarna. I still need to spray a bunch of weeds across the yard. Bermuda and St. Augustine are coming out strong now.

I can still spray roundup in strategic areas. I pull a a 15 gallon sprayer behind mower on a trailer. When bermuda and St. augustine grass is dormant, it don't bother them. They are not dormant anymore. They are growing green. It may reach upper 80's here next week. The hotter it gets the faster and worse roundup gets. Same with weed killer that don't kill St augustine or bermuda grass in warm weather. It is 68 degrees here right now.

It is also wet here right now. If you don't like the weather locally, wait a minute. "minute" is a term people use now relative to many contexts. LOL

Roundup is a non-selective herbicide. It will kill anything in hot weather. Don't let wind be blowing when you spray it. Mild wind is fine. 5mph. Maybe 10mph wind. Flirting with disaster on 10mph wind if you don't want anything close to die in hot weather. It has no impact on turf grass when they are dormant. Fescue grass is a totally different animal than bermuda or St. Augustine grass. Fescue thrives in colder temperatures. Roundup will kill it in hot or cold weather.

They have selective herbicides for fescue and st. augustine for weeds.

 

[Joe Flacco]

Mine has a roll bar I will have to attach but I don't have that kind of terrain. I just have roots and dips and wet areas I don't want to put it in. My conventional Husqvarna or weedeater can handle it. I sprayed round up across the good grass way back with the Husqvarna. I still need to spray a bunch of weeds across the yard. Bermuda and St. Augustine are coming out strong now.

I can still spray roundup in strategic areas. I pull a a 15 gallon sprayer behind mower on a trailer.

My lawn is Tall Fescue. It was amazing when I moved in and now I have all kinds of weeds. I fertilized and over seeded in the fall and put down preemergent in March but weeds still popping up. Maintaining a yard is humbling.

 

[Vermonter]

46" deck is too small for 4 acres. I have a 50" deck and If I had to do it again I would get at least a 60" deck.

Just sold my JD commercial 60" diesel zero turn. Such a great mower, but can't justify it anymore. Acres of timber and 10 acres of hay but less than a 1/4 acre of actual grass lawn.

FTR I got $2k more than I bought it for. Price of equipment is ridiculous

 

[Joe Flacco]

Just sold my JD commercial 60" diesel zero turn. Such a great mower, but can't justify it anymore. Acres of timber and 10 acres of hay but less than a 1/4 acre of actual grass lawn.

FTR I got $2k more than I bought it for. Price of equipment is ridiculous

The commercial zero turns are way too expensive. The landscapers I see around the neighborhood all use Exmark diesels. I looked them up when I was shopping and they are $30k. Crazy.