Mow de lawn

[grampahol]

That's a French term for cut the grass in case you missed it..  OK, maybe not, but I just finished a 94 degree session of mow de lawnizing..  That's so much fun I can't begin to say how enjoyable it is to be covered with debri and sweat.. Oh wait.. It kind of sucks, but beats having to rake de lawn every time so I mow de lawn regularly instead.. We've had nearly zero rain this past month so I have to drag a few hundred feet of hose around to keep the grass watered. Luckily we live by a lake so I use a pump to pump lake water up to water things.. It's a pretty good sized yard and the front by the street is about 25 feet higher than the back by the lake.. Good old Harbor Freight pump to the rescue! It'll put out about 2 gallons every 10 seconds or so.. I'm just judging by how quick it'll fill up a 2 gallon sprinkling can...about 10 seconds. Not bad, eh?
Just remember mow de lawn next time someone asks if you speak French.. 

[HarleyDog]

(06-02-2019, 01:03 PM)grampahol Wrote:

I think I seen one of these on Porn Hub.

[sandwedge]

(06-02-2019, 01:03 PM)grampahol Wrote: That's a French term for cut the grass in case you missed it..  OK, maybe not, but I just finished a 94 degree session of mow de lawnizing..  That's so much fun I can't begin to say how enjoyable it is to be covered with debri and sweat.. Oh wait.. It kind of sucks, but beats having to rake de lawn every time so I mow de lawn regularly instead.. We've had nearly zero rain this past month so I have to drag a few hundred feet of hose around to keep the grass watered. Luckily we live by a lake so I use a pump to pump lake water up to water things.. It's a pretty good sized yard and the front by the street is about 25 feet higher than the back by the lake.. Good old Harbor Freight pump to the rescue! It'll put out about 2 gallons every 10 seconds or so.. I'm just judging by how quick it'll fill up a 2 gallon sprinkling can...about 10 seconds. Not bad, eh?
Just remember mow de lawn next time someone asks if you speak French.. 

Irrigating and fertilizing at the same time.... good and efficent!

[fredtoast]

I have a stream on my property that I use to water my garden.

Instead of buying a pump I went about a hundred yards upstream with black plastic flexible pipe and use gravity. The problem is that it runs up and down so I have to make sure there are zero leaks and then fill (prime) the pipe to get it started drawing. Every year it is a pain in the ass to find any new leaks and get it running, but once it starts it works great.

300 feet of 3/4 pipe plus connectors cost me a little over $100, but there is no electricity required.

[XenoMorph]

I have the opposite problem... I couldn't mow yesterday cause the grass was still wet. I need to install some French drains I believe they are called... to help the water leave the yard and get to the creek

[grampahol]

The hose on this property was already here from the previous owner, but the pump cost me about $100 and the 1" PVC pipe to the lake about $25. What really surprised me was the pump is able to draw all the water up from about 25 feet of PVC piping that distance and then all the way up to the front of the yard and then throw water about 20 or so feet from the sprinkler head itself.
One of the downsides is having to drag the hose around each time and it's especially bad right before I have to move the hose out of the way right before mowing. 
Everyone has the brilliant ideas to install pipes all over the place so I don't have to drag the hose around, but they never realize that I'd still have to drag hose around not to mention how ugly a few hundred feet of pvc pipe might be all around the yard.. It's almost like they're saying, "Here's the most possible impractical way to do it and it'll save you all kinds of time being extraordinarily impractical!" 
Oh well.. Next on my agenda is chopping down all kinds of bushes around the yard. In the back alone we have 5 of those big, red bushes that grow about 20 feet every few years. Two years ago I cut them down to about 4 feet so they looked like stumps. Two years later they're already about 24 feet high in places and every bit of the cut branches has to be disposed of. Luckily here the county picks up cut brush from the curb every Wednesday. We thought about a chipper, but then I'd have to find somewhere to put a small mountain of that stuff every time..
As it is now we have about 34 oversized bushes around the yard and they all need to be resized.. I'd be happy to have every one of them removed, but then the yard would look way too bare in a neighborhood full of bushes and trees.. That doesn't even mention the wild trees and bushes that pop up and grow in areas difficult to get to. I used to cut those all out, but they grow too fast and too hard to get to..So the yard kind of looks like a nice, green lawn surrounded by a strip of jungle on two sides.. Here in South Carolina things grow REALLY fast..  To make it worse is the left side of the yard is becoming overgrown with wild vines strangling things out, but not enough to kill them..
It would really help if I could just be about 25 years younger.. Any suggestions on that front? Too late to start raising kids to do the work of the old man.. 

[fredtoast]

Some people love working in their yards.  I mostly think it is a pain in the ass.

When I retire I am buying a condo.

[grampahol]

(06-07-2019, 12:24 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Some people love working in their yards.  I mostly think it is a pain in the ass.

When I retire I am buying a condo.

I enjoy it except for the fact that my age doesn't particularly agree. What was once easy (yard work) has become a daily struggle to keep from keeling over from a heart attack.. So far so good, but my yard work days are numbered..

[grampahol]

BTW...my pump piping setup..about 20 give or take feet of PVC.. Sorry..I'm far to lazy to fix the sideways view..  The fun part if having to prime the pump every single time.. I probably ought to rethread the pipes so they don't leak, but oh well..Still works.  BTW..the Bengals can thank me for fishing from this very dock when they're losing.. lol

Anyone notice the leftover hose? The previous owner buried several hundred feet of cheap hose as an ad hoc underground sprinkling system.. Every year I end up cutting sections out.. I have no idea where most of it runs, but it's all over the yard in various places, front and back.. He was an idiot to put it mildly. I suspect he's still an idiot although I have no definitive proof. 

We got a heavy downpour of much needed rain last night so I'll probably be cutting grass sooner than I really want..

[grampahol]

Oh boy!  3 solid days of rain with 5 to go it's gonna be fun raking wet grass by next Friday.. I usually have little use for a bagger, but this is a week it probably wouldn't hurt..
It's already too high and needs cut, but not in the rain..