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L8 APEX
07-29-2007, 11:54 PM
All of this rain made for some real fun mowing let me tell you... I ran over some wire and other debris a couple times. Here is how I was able to work on the bottom side of the mower. This trick also works for ATV's.
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I got rained on about 1pm for an hour or so I just kept mowing and mowing. I was soaked to the bone. Then the sun came out and in another 4-5 hours I was fairly dry again.. I ran over a big black rat snake it was in the tall grass and I couldn't see it. I bought a new Echo SRM 210 trimmer from Home Depot this morning I am going to take it back tomorrow. I got the speed loader head and some .155 line and it would bog down and stop. I tried to get a cheaper unit I thought would do the job... But it looks like I am going to have to buy another Stihl FS 80R. I figured I didn't need top of the line everything but I was wrong.
The Deere is doing great especially for the beating it endures mowing a rough pasture 2ft high. Some of the grass was as tall as the mower itself. There were huge banana tree spiders all over, they are scary looking. I mowed from 10am to 5 pm and got most of the essentials done. Then I trimmed until about 7:30. I sure would like to have a Chinese tractor and big mowing deck..
I am going to build a push bar for the mower so I can knock down more stuff without damage tp the mower.
tiffo60
07-30-2007, 07:54 AM
I have the same mower and it does great but when in tall wet grass it tends to bog down badly, I removed the gard on the exit chute and it helped some
DamonH
07-30-2007, 09:07 AM
There were huge banana tree spiders all over, they are scary looking.

Those things are out in force this year! I must have killed 50-100 at my parents farm on Saturday. BIG 'ol suckers too.
wesman
07-30-2007, 09:24 AM
Those things are out in force this year! I must have killed 50-100 at my parents farm on Saturday. BIG 'ol suckers too.


I've got quite a few out at the new house as well. We also have a big ass mean black looking spider that I've let live until I can identify what he is. I'll let the pest control guy sort them out soon along with all those damn chiggers :flaming:

--wes
L8 APEX
07-30-2007, 09:46 AM
I'm gonna drag my pasture with sulphur for chiggers. Apparently dusting with sulfur is how you kill them.
wesman
07-30-2007, 09:49 AM
I'm gonna drag my pasture with sulphur for chiggers. Apparently dusting with sulfur is how you kill them.


Cool...good to know. They're tearing my a$$ up when I go out to the house. I imagine you'll be feeling them too having spent all that time out there yesterday. I think they're less active when it's wet, so maybe that'll save you

--wes
Ohmsby
07-30-2007, 10:38 AM
+1 on the spiders and mosquitoes are bad around our place as well. We finally closed on the other house so now I only have 1 yard to mow:icon_mrgreen:
tiffo60
07-30-2007, 10:41 AM
+1 on the spiders and mosquitoes are bad around our place as well. We finally closed on the other house so now I only have 1 yard to mow:icon_mrgreen:

that was a nice Toro Zero turn mower I saw and thought about loading up at that house with the fridge:evil
Ohmsby
07-30-2007, 11:02 AM
that was a nice Toro Zero turn mower I saw and thought about loading up at that house with the fridge:evil

nothing mows like a commercial z turn you would not have got far it has low jack:D.... do you have that fridge full of Monster yet
L8 APEX
07-30-2007, 01:27 PM
For the sulphur you are supposed to be able to buy it at a feed store and you need some kind of burlap sack or other porus sack to drag and speard it with... I haven't done it yet. Watch out for the BATF though:tex
DamonH
07-31-2007, 04:54 PM
I'm gonna drag my pasture with sulphur for chiggers. Apparently dusting with sulfur is how you kill them.

I know they don't like the sulpher, but I didn't know it killed them. Back in the day we used to dust our legs with it when we'd be out in the fields and it'd keep chiggers (and ticks I believe) at bay.
L8 APEX
07-31-2007, 05:01 PM
It may just repel them, it gets them out of the yard anyway.
STooPiD
08-01-2007, 10:18 AM
Yeah I remember when I was a kid, we had a place on the dark side of lake texoma and my dad used to have a mason jar with holes poked in the lid and we'd use it to sprinkle sulfur on our legs.