Lawn Work, Grass Cutting, Who does it?

[Mike Teacher]

I just got back from outside and I'm dripping nicely everwhere. Ewwww.

But I'm out there cutting the lawn, and everyone else on the block except for maybe two families have a lawn service do it. I'm not talking enormo-lawns either. I felt like a Yankee out there amongst mi amigos. Ok I'm guilty of stereo-typing so shoot me. Apurate! Ahora!

Ok So not everyone has a lawn; hell Ive only had this 1st a few years; and I used a lawn service, but the I was like, why am I writing this stupid check? And I bought a Sears and off I went.

Q: Who does your lawn if you have one? Are we getting lazier?

Q: If you don't, who did it when you were younger?

Q: Ever cut lawns? Do the lawn service thing. I feel there's a 'Clerk's meets Caddyshack' type movie out there, but for Lawn Crews. Is there?

If you didnt have a lawn when you were younger, where the hell were you, alaska?

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[Hoojibs]

I think it matters on the size of your yard and how long it would take to mow, weedwack, trim and edge everything.

I have a small front yard and it usually takes an hour to do everything.

If I ever move and it's taking me half the day, I think I will start paying someone to come over and do it.

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[TheMojoPin]

I've mowed a lawn once in my life.

Once I hit the age of ten (When it seems most people at least started helping out), I was living in an apartment. Then I moved to a government base where a company was hired to tend to all the lawns. Then I moved to an apartment. Then I went to college. Since then, I've only lived in apartments or townhouses (That had tiny pseudo-"lawns" mowed by community hires), so I haven't really had the chance to mow a lawn except that one time.

And I never plan to do it again.

Also, I've never done my own taxes.

Yay.

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[Hottub]

I love lawn maintainance. Even with allergies. It has become a challenge for me to have a lawn as green as the neighbors around me. They all use Chem-Lawn, Lawn a Mat etc.
It is also an escape. An oasis. Nobody bothers me because nobody else could care less.


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[jafter]

I cut my lawn but luckily I live in a townhouse so it takes me 10 minutes to cut my lawn and my 2 neighbors lawn. It takes more time to get the mower out of the back yard than it does to mow the lawn. I lived in a house with 3 room mates and we had a big lawn, but it was not so bad we rotating cutting the lawn once a month.

When I was a kid we would go to peoples houses and mow their lawns for 10 bucks.

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[Freakshow]

We had just a shade over 2 acres that was moved when I was growing up. We mowed with push mowers (usually ~2 working, one not) and that lawn would eat mowers, usually at the rate of one a year. We tried to pay people to do it (other kids, usually) but it would destroy their mowers--nice ones, too.

When we moved out, my dad moved to a place where he could cut the grass with a pair of scissors, because he was so sick of having to mow that place.



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[IrishAlkey]

We don't have lawns in the ghetto.

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[TheMojoPin]

I love lawn maintainance.

So does my dad, which is perhaps the main reason I never mowed any of our lawns. It's the one thing that truly relaxes him, and I think he'd kick my ass if I even offered to mow the lawn for him.

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[Mike Teacher]

It is also an escape. An oasis. Nobody bothers me because nobody else could care less.


Wow thats scary becaue that's the part I forgot. When I first got the lawn mower i HATED doing it. Oh Man it sucked out loud, coz I was the kid who cut the lawn as a kid, so it held no interest for me.

And then... I'm watching myself more and more ... trip to Home Depot ... and BOOM: I'm the fucking Domesticated Guy. King of the Hill minus the Beer.

Um, what movie? She's Having A Baby, yeah; the Synchronized Lawn-Mower and wives with Iced Tea [so sexist]? I'm THOSE GUYS NOW. I Like It! Its My Therapy. I use almost Zero chemicals. Chem-Lawn can kiss my non-cancerous colon.

Weird; last night I was out there admiring how parallel i'd gotten the lines. Is that patheitic or what? Or maybe it was just nice out, which it was.

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This guy does a fabulous job on the lawn. You can also hire him for ice sculptures.
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[walking joint]

i moved into my house about 3 years ago and for the first summer i mowed my own lawn. i own about 1.5 acres and it sucked. it would take at least 4-5 hours and i don't have much shade. that was just the mowing part. so for the past 2 years I have gotten landscapers...its $50 a cut and those bastards don't skip a week. So now I concentrate on the landscaping around my house...last weekend i shoveled out about 20 bushes that go around my house and this week will plant some new ones. we actually want to sell our house, so i'm not sure why i'm doing this work, but i enjoy it the only reason i don't do my lawn anymore is it would take a weekend away. if i planned on doing it on Saturday and it rains..i would then lose my whole weekend.

[Tall_James]

I am obsessed with my lawn. With all of the other expenses involved in bringing an old house that was never maintained up to livable standards, the money is just not there right now for a lawn service. Ergo, I am the lawn service.

My lawn is a mess. The woman who owned the house before us did no work on either the house or the lawn for over 10 years. We had a major grub problem causing massive brown patches throughout the entire lawn. I just treated the property with grub-killer and will have to rake out the entire property to get ready to re-seed. Not to mention putting mulch in the bushes and tree bases.

And to top it all off, the property is not level and will have to be eventually regraded. That means tearing up the whole lawn and starting over from scratch. But that's a problem for another year.

I'm out in the yard every night doing one thing or another. Tonight its going to be removing a stump from the corner of the property. Tomorrow I will be removing some of the 40,000,000 rocks that are all over my lawn. The rest of the week I will be agonizing over how long its going to take to get the lawn to look as good as every other lawn in the neighborhood.

So I feels ya Mike.


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Say, that reminds me! How'd you get that kid s'darned fast? Me'n Dottie went in to adopt on account of
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white baby! Five years! Okay, what else you got? Said, two Koreans and one Negro bom with the heart outside.

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[Jennitalia]

When I lived at home, my ex stepfather was a fat, lazy fuck who "couldn't" cut our lawn (and we had a lot of it), because, god forbid, he may have a heart attack. So he made me do it, knowing that I'm allergic to pollen and would always end up with swollen eyes and pukey afterwards. One of the many reasons why I look forward to him rotting in hell. But I'm not bitter, or anything.

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[Freakshow]

Here ya go Mizzle:
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She can mow my lawn anytime.

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[Hottub]

Weird; last night I was out there admiring how parallel i'd gotten the lines.


I was doing the exact same thing. Sometimes I will mow the lawn twice, once horizontal then vertical, to try and get that Yankee Stadium effect. I also like to mix it up every few cuts with the horizontal cut. Nice effect.

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[jeffdwright2001]

When I had a lawn to take care of, I used to get crazy every now and then and cut it diagonally.

I am a maniac.

[TooCute]

Lawns suck. All those fertilizers and pesticides and weeders and shit are AWFUL for the environment.

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[Furtherman]

My dad had four boys so he didn't have to mow the lawn... or any other yard work for that matter. Yea, I hated it. Now, it's not so bad. You get outside and it's a little bit of excercise.

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[Tall_James]

Lawns suck. All those fertilizers and pesticides and weeders and shit are AWFUL for the environment.

Fuck the environment. I'd salt the earth with thalidomide if it meant an increase in my property values.





















....how's that for a shock post!


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Say, that reminds me! How'd you get that kid s'darned fast? Me'n Dottie went in to adopt on account of
something went wrong with my semen, and they told us five years' wait for a healthy white baby! I said healthy
white baby! Five years! Okay, what else you got? Said, two Koreans and one Negro bom with the heart outside.

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[jeffdwright2001]

Lawns suck. All those fertilizers and pesticides and weeders and shit are AWFUL for the environment.

Fuck the environment. I'd salt the earth with thalidomide if it meant an increase in my property values.
....how's that for a shock post!
If shit really is involved, it's more of a "com"post than a shock post.

[Recyclerz]

I'd salt the earth with thalidomide if it meant an increase in my property values.


Thalimode can help fight cancer (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2709093.stm)

Tall James, you bleeding heart liberal, you.


I do my own lawn work because I'm too cheap to pay someone else to do it.



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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I have two wimdow boxes and a couple of flower pots on my fire escape. That's as far as I go with "yard work."

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[JPMNICK]

When I was around 11 or 12, i decided i wanted money and needed a job. So i made a flyer and passed it around the neighborhood. It was myself and my friend. In total, we got like 10 lawns. Some to cut every other week. We charged an insanely low price. I think like 12 bucks a lawn or somethign like that. But we each made 40 or 50 dollars per week, which when you are 12 might as well be 3000. Anyway, the weird part was, i cut all these people's lawn's, but not my own. My parents have always had a landscaper. My dad can not do much manual labor due to his diabetes. If his sugar were to get low, things could get messy. They didn't want to piss off our landscapers by firing them, only to have to rehire them a year later when they thought i would give up this buinsess.

I did that for 3 summers. Then when i was 18, i got a job with a real landscaper basically running his buisness. he would give me and my friend a list of houses with the addresses and a map. Keys to the truck and all the equipment and just let us go. It may be one of the best jobs I have ever had. Outside, in the sun, having fun since I worked with my best friend. One house that we cut on fridays had a recently divorced women who lived there. She had a pool and timed it out so just as we were moving to the back yard to cut the grass she would be de-clothing. always had ice-t and lemonade for us. And sometimes she would have a friend over. The basically just sat there and checked us out as we mowed.
I used to put on my headphone's and listen to the old WNEW all day. radiochick / ron and fez then O&A. It was a very stress free job. Drink all night after, and come to work hung over. never had to deal with people so it did not matter. and it made operating heavy machinery much more fun.


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[Patches]

We used to have a mini-lawn, but my father covered the whole shebang up with a deck before I was old enough to go to town with the ole lawn mower, and his shifty cousin Weed Wacker.

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[Tall_James]

or put up some pics of hot people.

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Say, that reminds me! How'd you get that kid s'darned fast? Me'n Dottie went in to adopt on account of
something went wrong with my semen, and they told us five years' wait for a healthy white baby! I said healthy
white baby! Five years! Okay, what else you got? Said, two Koreans and one Negro bom with the heart outside.

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[Def Dave in SC]

Lawn Work, Grass Cutting, Who does it?


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[Furtherman]

My little brother would follow me around with one of these:

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until i blew it apart with a couple M-80's. Heh.

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[Iamnotatool]

/ Lawn Work, Grass Cutting, Who does it?



Usually Mexicans.

That being said, I betcha Silera could mow one helluva lawn.

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[FUNKMAN]

I cut my own and bag-it... in early/mid spring i get up to 500lbs of clippings which i put in my trailer and take to the local dump and rake it off. Tell ya, after a few days of that grass sitting on the trailer it can really stink. Sometime i'll go get gas after i just dropped off a big load of stink grass and the gas attendants think i had a load of manure.

I just got my one vegetable garden completed. I turned the dirt yesterday with a shovel, took about two hours and then i raked it somewhat level. Today i planted 'bell peppers, beefsteak tomatas, cucumbers, and eggplant"

Tomorrow i am renting a tiller so i can prepare my little cornfield. This year i bought packaged kernels instead or starter plants which will make it easier to put in. I also have extra tomata plants, hot cherry peppers and jalapenos which i can fit in with the corn. I had 12 broccoli plants but an animal got them already, groundhog I think?

I am going to use netting to protect the corn from the squirrels along with little bottles filled with Fox Piss, and a couple rat traps. I also have a scarecrow that the kids made at some farm 'sometime around halloween last year' and i'm gonna put him up.

Also put my flowers in a few days ago. Managed to get the pool open too and Michele took a dip yesterday.

Other than that ' i got nothing to do'...

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[Mike Teacher]

Lawns suck. All those fertilizers and pesticides and weeders and shit are AWFUL for the environment.


fair enough, but i use none of those.

Interestingly, that sentence still works by replacing 'lawns' with 'Food We Eat'. Everyone hates the pesticides, except the hungry.



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[SatCam]

Well I currently do my lawn... all one acre of it. Takes me about a half hour to do, but I haven't done it in the dead heat of the summer yet. I still have to get the mower deck back onto the tractor. Back on LI, we just had the mexicans do it (as did almost everyone else on our block). There would always be about two lawn services on the block, and it'd be a competition to see which gets the most houses on the block.

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[FUNKMAN]

Everyone hates the pesticides, except the hungry.


and Crazy Clare because it kills the 'incest'...

reaching baby!

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[Mike Teacher]

i think DDT makes a lovely sauce.

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[JPMNICK]

yea especially poured over under developed bald eagle eggs.

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[Johnathan H Christ]

who does it? i do. i own a landscape company. design, installation and maintenence.

i did it for a company called J&P in virginia for a few years. then i quit to go to college, then moved to florida and started my own company.

there is an insane pleasure that can be derived from making tall grass short, and turing a piece of shit lawn into a work of art.

as for all that stuff about fucking up the environment...look to commercial farms. i can tell you from experience that granular doesnt run off much. its time release and stays put pretty well.



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[monsterone]

ha, i just mowed my lawn yesterday, after going for a bike ride and walking my dog 2 miles. i was going to slit my manager's throat and needed something to get that out of me. it takes me roughly an hour to do the hole thing.

as for treating the lawn, i take the philosophy of letting nature take over. goddamn, there is such a good satre quote regarding that; i'll have to find it.

so i do landscaping, maintenece and upkeeping. a nice stress releaver and fulfilling like jhc sez.

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[AppleBoy]

Growing up, we had a lawn and either my dad or I mowed it.

Now I live in an apartment complex and a bunch of Hispanics take care of the lawn.

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[Mike Teacher]

Nadine Jansen...

...sigh...

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[sr71blackbird]

I had to use one of these
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growing up, until my father got us an electric mower and I thought I was in heaven. Then he got a gas mover used at a garage sale and I hated that thing, pulling that rope to get it started and stuff almost throwing my back out yanking that cord and it would snap back in and if you werent careful it would hit you and hurt bad. Im glad Im in an apartment now.

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[SatCam]

I got the street level grass part done. Took me about an hour because I had to mulch. Also, I let it grow really high before I cut it. There's still a lot more to do, but it was way too hot to do that yesterday.

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[FUNKMAN]

got my second garden completed:

> 12 jalapeno plants
> 6 hot cherry pepper plants
> 4 beefsteak tomata (leftovers from other garden)
> 6 banana pepper plants(sweet)
> 180 - corn kernels which will hopefully grow to nice stalks. 3 different kind of sweet corn. 9 rows, 20 per row. michele put the kernels in after i poked holes in the ground.
> got the fox piss going too, 3 bottles around one garden and two around the other. seems like i haven't seen either the squirrels or the ground hogs in approx a week since i put the fox pee out, hopefully it continues.

> turned on sprinklers yesterday. replaced two heads today

> pool water is ideal and the kids are loving it. i took a dip yesterday. it was 76 degrees and is now about 78. a little nip when you first go in but you get used to it real fast.

> got the grass cut and down to the dump. will be looking to put some fertilizer with bug preventer soon... oh goody

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[Hottub]

I finaly did it!!

I just took a look around my block and...


Hottub has the greenest fullest lawn in the neighborhood!

Fuck those DDT and Paraquat sprayin' Bastards!
Those lazy sods payin' Mexicans to tend their turf.

It may be a month, a day, or an evening, but


This minute HOTTUB RULES!!!!

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[Hottub]

<p>Damn, It is now mid april and I have the shittiest lawn on the block!</p><p>One year ago I was the pride of the block. Now just shame!!</p>

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[mothershucker]

I cut my lawn my whole life. About 6 years ago I got a guy to do the front for $20 (how he makes money is beyond me). They mow, edge, weed whack, and blow. Why in Gods name would I do it ever again? I still do the back, but all I do is mow.

I shucked it, and I shucked it, and I shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker

[Melrapuo]

<p>I've cut my grass for many years.&nbsp; At least since I was 13.&nbsp; Before that, my dad cut the lawn.&nbsp; We've never paid someone else to do it, because we really don't have a huge lawn.&nbsp; Plus, it sucks.&nbsp; There's crab grass and patches of dirt everywhere.&nbsp; We attempted to fix it by planting new seeds, but it never works.&nbsp; Our lawn stinks.</p><p>On the block next to me, there is a family that owns its own lawncare business.&nbsp; I've seen their work too, and they do a hell of a job.&nbsp;&nbsp;I mostly see them working on huge lawns though.&nbsp; Why someone wouldn't just cut their own grass is beyond me.&nbsp; Unless if they're disabled or elderly, of course.&nbsp; That makes sense.</p>

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[torker]

<p>I've always used a gas mower, but decide to get an electric one.&nbsp; This was done after some soul searching and product research.&nbsp; I think I've made a bad choice.I'm going to kill myself with the f'n cord.&nbsp; I didn't want to be that guy, but I am and I don't like him.</p><p><img height="250" src="http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/nvswcd/images/cutgrass.jpg" width="188" border="0" /></p>

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[JPMNICK]

how was electric even an option? I would use hand shears before i used electric

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[A.J.]

<p><font size="1">We don't have lawns in the ghetto. </font></p><p>Yet ghettos are&nbsp;a source of future caretakers of lawns.</p>

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[j3lehane]

I do lawn work and have a few tips for typical walk behind 18&quot;-22&quot;
mowers.Always keep the blade sharp,using a file or grinder.Even if you
can't sharpen it well,just wiping or scratching the slime and dirt off
the cutting edge of the blade will improve your cut.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Make sure the gas is relatively fresh.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Make sure you
have enough oil.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Make sure your spark plug is
relatively clean.Try sand paper or a small file or screwdriver and
dooooo both contact points where the spark connects(underside of curved
spike).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Make sure the underside of deck(where blade
spins) is free of obstructions&nbsp; - the cleaner and more unclogged
the better.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Use a sliding string on the kill switch
handle(instead of having to hold it always).* this is safe if you are
experienced,but don't use it for a kid just starting
out.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If your grass is
over-grown or very thick ,try sparing the mower engine by either
cutting slowly,raising the deck to a higher setting,cutting in smaller
strips,like half the mower width.....or my favorite....set the front
wheels low and the back wheels
high.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Consider that a mower
is a glorified FAN which is slowed down if you give it less air
space,so the more air in the rear wheel end will allow the rpms to stay
higher thru tough grass.You sacrifice a perfectly flat cut,but speed
the process. You can always flatten it out later,that day or next
week.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Clear debris like rocks and sticks that
could kill your mower...or....very important,ifyou are like me ,doing
many horribly unmaintained lawns,just beware around houses of those
grounding spikes/usually hidden by tall growth.THEY WILL KILL
YOU/GOODNIGHT MOWER.A good walkaround in an unfamiliar area may alert
you to hazards.Some hose may be spared or kid's toy left under a
bush.One of my pet peeves is hitting plastic bags which sometimes act
like an octopus and foul up the
blade.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mowers are tricky when it
comes to loading and unloading from a vehicle or used on hills.Try to
keep the mower as level as possible so the oil doesn't get blown out
the muffler from tipping over too far or for too long.When you tip it
to clean it or clear off the blade,oil inside may leak around inside
and slow down your starting,wetting the plug with oil.Then you have to
DRY OFF the plug*not just clean it.&nbsp;&nbsp; ****I pick up MORE
FREEEEEEEE MOWERS since most people don't know some simple trouble
shooting,like just keep a spare plug handy.People throw out perfectly
good mowers every day for simple stuff that goes wrong.&nbsp; Oh
yeah,oiling the bearings ,where the blade spins may be tricky,but will
save on repairs later.WD 40 in a pinch,but will evaporate from heat
friction.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OK here's my number one
easiest tip....if you forget all else,this will make the pushing
easier.I like to take hot oil,after the mower runs a few minutes,shut
off engine and use the dipstick to put a few drops on each wheel.But
don't get DIRT on the stick,you dirty bastard....wipe it off.&nbsp;
Jerry &nbsp;&nbsp; j.lehane@verizon.net * send me your own tips<br />

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