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wellington womble
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Mistress Rose
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Tavascarow
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Tavascarow
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wellington womble
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 15051 Location: East Midlands
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Posted: Sun Apr 17, 16 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I do agree. You can go on holiday and leave a flail mower to fend for itself though. Also, it's unlikely I will have to extract an adoring child from the flail mowers house. I havent actually ruled out pigs, but I do need to check and repair the fences. At the moment, you can't see the fences.
I can definitely see the attraction in a two wheeled tractor. Sadly, I am no longer fit and I don't have full days. I have to do bits as and when the opportunity arises (it's one of the problems of parenthood, particularly single parenthood. I worked out I had way more free time when I worked full time plus!) same problem with hiring, unless a longer term option is available. Also, doesn't grass need mowing fairly regularly? I went into the orchard with a brush cutter a couple of times last year, but it wasn't regular enough and by August you couldn't get in there at all.
I don't think the landie will get between the trees in the orchard. The have a lot of low branches and are quite closely spaced. Although various it has got stuck in other places.
My master plan is to mow the 'grass' most weeks and also spend a couple of hours hammering the edges of the really overgrown bits (like the orchard) of it with the brush cutter, which will be added to next weeks mowing, evicting stuff as I go, thus gradually extending and improving the grass. Other than planting a potato patch, it's most of my plan for it for this year. I may get some pet sheep or alpacas, but I would need to sort out some fencing (at the very least of out of the kitchen garden) and controlling the grass is my first priority. I really hate how it's so hard to walk about on, even this time of year. It'll be practically impossible in a month.
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sean Downsizer Moderator
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Mistress Rose
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wellington womble
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 16 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Sean. Time is a bit of a restraint, money not so much (I was joking about the kidney, honest!) I'm happy to spend a bit on a compact and topper/flail if it gets the job done. I'm mostly grumbling about needing to buy a vehicle. I'm always afraid I'll get conned because I know nothing about them.
The first picture is the stuff that seems to have accumulated in all the edge and corners. It's fairly easy to deal with as I start to oik it out into the skip I have decided to hire as soon as you can get a lorry in. I can brush cut to start with and then mow after that. Simples.
The second picture shows the kind of grass I need to mow. This about half of it, and the following one shows some of the divots and ruts the mower will need to cope with. This is my priority, before it grows waist high again. You can see my chicken house and solar panels in approximately the middle of the place and my vegetable patch is mainly sandwiched in between those and the sheds etc behind. The orchard is behind those. Behind that and off to the right is the Graveyard of Abandoned Vehicles (as pictured by the dumper truck, but has a supporting cast of three trailers, a digger, a Discovery and two chicken houses. There are three caravans as well) and directly behind is the Gate Through Which I Do Not Go. That part is where the pigs would go. It's actually fenced off with pig netting, and has had pigs in in the past. The property ends at the conifers and the fallen tree at the back. The last picture shows the orchard. Honest, they are fruit trees, and they did fruit quite well last year. I just couldn't get near them. They are spaced wide enough to get a ride on between, but not the landie. I'll happily lop off a few low hanging branches to get a mower in long term.
It will be a lovely piece of land, once it's had a haircut and a bit of a tidy up (I forgot there are a million boiler-suit-blue oil drums as well. Very handy, but an absolute eyesore!) |
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Tavascarow
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