the biggest practical joke ever palyed on a child

[musclehead]

my folks bought a trailer park when I was about 2, nuttin' fancy 20 spaces filled most of the time. the real draw was it sat on 4.75 acres, I had the biggest back yard in the county, maybe even 5-6 counties. it was about 4 acres, we could have a football game, baseball game and have room for a game of tag left over. to a young lad such as my self it was huge!
of course being central Illinois it was all grass. and there is the rub.

no one EVER told me it was going to be all mine to mow once I acheived the age of mowerdom.

every saturday, ALL day throughout my teen years was spent on the riding lawn mower. I bitched, I griped, to no avail. it was simply my turn to pay dues.
however it could be worse.... a gentleman that lived in the park all my young years had the duty of mowing it before we showed up on the scene, only he did it with a push mower 
kinda puts it in perspective for me, don't gripe someone else has it worse then you!


now? I've got 1/3 of an acre, I can handle that 

[macdoesit]

I mow my 5 beautiful acres and love doing it

[R J]

I and the kids mowed about 6 acres when we lived in California.   Now I have a 350 X 290' yard with a house and garage setting in the middle, and it is all I can do to get it mowed in between rain storms this year.         It is supposed to rain again tonight and tomorrow with off and on showers Sunday.

I'm going to have to end up mowing and then baling it.   It has already gone to seed.

Sure as hell glad I have a 52" mower with POWER STEERING.    My shoulders wouldn't or couldn't stand to twist that steering wheel without assistance.

[macdoesit]

Mine is 330X 660 I have a 54" John Deere 0 turn Love mowing it.

[MP]

Does putting up 300 acres of hay count?  LOL

MP

[Canuck]

I love the smell of fresh mowed grass - other peoples that is.  I live in the woods on 1 acre between 10 and 80 acres of the neighbors.  I don't have a lick of grass to mow.  However, in the fall when the leaves start dropping it's pay back time.  

[Robert]

Used to mow lawns for money when I was a kid. Its a love hate thing but down here in Fla I dont have much lawn but its thick. The stupid lawn mowers were a fight to go through it stopped and had to cut it 3 times at different levels and I hated it till I got the Sears wide cut, wow what a joy now. 10 hp 33 inch takes all of 20 minutes point and cut.

Now this is the cruelest trick played on kids

YouTube Challenge - I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy	powered by Aeva

[Stanley Steamer]

I used to mow my half acre with a push mower......then I bought and restored a Snapper rider.......and then my In-laws bought me this Husky 42" zero turn mower in exchange for mowing both our yards.....it was a good deal since I always had to mow their yard with their old rider anyways......I can now mow my yard AND their yard in the time it used to take me to do my yard alone.....and that's with loading the mower on my trailer and towing it 5 miles away to their house...... .......

it isn't a Dixie Chopper like I have at work, but it saves me a LOT of time.....

[John Schmidt]

Being born & raised in Iowa, I had my fill of mowing at an early age. Even during the summer I used to work on a baling crew with my dad, grandad, and cousin. Those were the years I developed some shoulders since it was my job to stack the bales on the wagon as they came off the baler. Now, for $124/month every Friday morning I drink my coffee and watch the news while the grass gets mowed for us. Save my energy for tee time. 

[Rams]

Absolutely despise mowing, not the activity, the aftermath.  I'm allergic to all that crap that gets airbourn.   Regardless, I do what I have to do and the wife has to suffer the results.  It's ain't pretty I tell ya. 

Thought about buying some of that artificial stadium grass, (astroturf).  Turns out, it's kind of expensive. 

[The Anvil]

1.5 acres. Hate taking care of any of it. I can think of so many things I'd rather do with my time. Shoulda bought a condo.

[PAVALKER]

A buddy of mine never mows his lawn..... he claims severe allergies and his wife mows it.   

How brilliant is that.   

[cookiedough]

A buddy of mine never mows his lawn..... he claims severe allergies and his wife mows it.   

How brilliant is that.   

Would be great if the wife wasn't so darn lazy!
I don't have that problem, but my neighbor has severe allergies to grass, etc. causing terrible results and  yet his lazy wife still makes him mow the yard vs. her.  They even bought a 42" riding john deere for their 100x110' city lot like ours and she still doesn't do it for him.  How lazy is that?  Takes all of 30 minutes total time with rider to do their small lot.  Takes me 1 hour with 21" push mower for our same sized lot, but do not have allergies and I need the exercise.

[BradValk48237]

I used to mow lawns for money as a kid, at one point had a trailer and 2 mowers and got  afriend to help.........

Hated it, but liked the cash......

So now, house started with plot or 50' x 150' minus house.....

Used to take an hour or so to mow and trim and edge.....

With judicious use of concrete, wood, and planting beds (added 600 sq ft to house, added garage and new driveway, 2 decks and a paver patio, plus alot more garden area- and about 2 yards of pea gravel behind garage), time to mow is now down to 25 mins to mow, trim, and edge..... I can deal with that.... for now

THere is a house near me that actually has some real nice astro turf they make now on the front yard- you do a double take.... got me to thinking that when it comes time to spend the money on a new mower...... Hmmmmmm.

Brad

Brad

[alph]

my parents use to have a house with 5 acre of lawn here in wisconsin.  my wife and i use to push mow it every single weekend when they moved to arizona, did that for two summers until it sold, took 4 hours for us to do.  now my ass hole brother that lives 5 miles from them charges my mother $200 a month to manage their renters.  i mowed my parents grass for free.  he always was an ass, never did anything for his parents.

my kids piss and moan when it comes to mowing the grass, it's just easier to get the wife to do it.   

[sandy]

My parents split up after I learned to cut grass and had done it only once. Then I spent my high school years living on a boat outside NYC. Never cut grass till I bought my first house at 25 yrs old. I still hate doing it. My patio home yard is 12' by 25' and takes 10 minutes to cut. It's the worst 10 minutes of my week.

[musclehead]

Used to mow lawns for money when I was a kid. Its a love hate thing but down here in Fla I dont have much lawn but its thick. The stupid lawn mowers were a fight to go through it stopped and had to cut it 3 times at different levels and I hated it till I got the Sears wide cut, wow what a joy now. 10 hp 33 inch takes all of 20 minutes point and cut.

Now this is the cruelest trick played on kids
YouTube Challenge - I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy

  ok that IS much crueler!

[musclehead]

we're having a drought this year, my grass is hardly growing!

[sugerbear]

my wife won't let me mow. we bought a john deer 42in mower. she LOVES to put on her john deer hat mow. calls it her  relaxing time.

but i still get to trim.

[BF]

Two of the happyiest days of my life were the day I bought my townhome and the day I sold my lawnmower.  

I've never really seen the point of doing all of that yard work.......two weeks after you're dead, it all looks like crap anyway.  

[macdoesit]

Does putting up 300 acres of hay count?  LOL

MP

HELL YES!!! You got my Respect, I hauled hay one time,one time,onetime,one time,one time,one time,one time!!!!!!!!!!!!

[macdoesit]

my parents use to have a house with 5 acre of lawn here in wisconsin.  my wife and i use to push mow it every single weekend when they moved to arizona, did that for two summers until it sold, took 4 hours for us to do.  now my ass hole brother that lives 5 miles from them charges my mother $200 a month to manage their renters.  i mowed my parents grass for free.  he always was an ass, never did anything for his parents.

my kids piss and moan when it comes to mowing the grass, it's just easier to get the wife to do it.   

4 hours!! it takes me 5 hours on a 54" 0 turn JD to mow my 5 acres.

[musclehead]

Does putting up 300 acres of hay count?  LOL

MP

actually that counts as 1000 harder then what I used to do, but from a teenagers perspective probably not.

[GreenLantern57]

Hay,
Spent 2 summers planting, mowing, spreading, rowing, baling, throwing 2 over the cab of the pick up, and stacking in the barn.  I do not envy you!  Course the big ole' round bales are quite different!

[Hoser]

I'm one of the strange few that enjoys mowing and tending my yard, takes about an hour once a week.  Had a commercial lawn business when I was younger, enjoyed that too, specially the money I made. Been thinking about doing it again.     Hoser