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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - JPolen01 - 06-25-2018
(06-25-2018, 10:15 AM)Steve85 Wrote: Oh, and I had sex so I wouldn't have to cut my lawn:
This is the best use of "I did x to not have to do y" to date.
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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - WRXtranceformed - 06-25-2018
Thanks Steve! I appreciate it!
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - ScottyB - 06-25-2018
Ryan T Wrote:
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dude, nice. a JD + Stihl combo is pretty much the unbeatable big-yard homeowner combo.
good for you getting the locking rear diff too. you have to have that for any serious work with the attachments as well as if you need to mow across any steep grades. the axles are usually the first thing to die on a bigbox quality yard mower from either spinning the open diff or loading the weight up on a bearing on one side too much.
i have super fond memories of the JD's my family used to own back when we had some large property in PA. we had a 755 and my granddad had a F510 which was a rear-steer 3 wheeler with a front deck. the 755 was incredible and we used almost every attachment you could get for it to maintain our property. my dad even ended up in the paper during the blizzard of 1993 when he used the snow blower to dig out our entire subdivision in a day. looked just like this:
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i could go on. the 755 was sold when we moved and we never got a tractor again after that, which made sense but it was a bummer. that tractor was a big part of my little kid years. first time i got to drive it by myself i thought i was the biggest badass the world had ever seen.
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - WRXtranceformed - 06-25-2018
I'll have to get a shot of our our John Deere big wheel farm tractor (from the 40s I believe) the next time I'm out at the farm. It looks a lot like this, except all brown with no color left iirc from years and years of farm use and probably no cleanings:
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That thing is still a beast, usually pulls bushhogs or is affixed with a big plow to plow our mile long driveway. I've been meaning to get a shot anyway for my buddy / neighbor who is a local John Deere & Stihl master mechanic
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - Steve85 - 06-25-2018
Tractors, they have a soul and they desire to be free to roam the fields.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=C97jl_1529803402
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - Steve85 - 06-25-2018
(06-25-2018, 03:55 PM)WRXtranceformed Wrote: Thanks Steve! I appreciate it!
You're welcome. His advice:
"If the bare spots are small all you really need to do is aerate the lawn, fertilize it, keep it watered well, mow low and you can put a little bit of topsoil in the bare areas to encourage the runners to move across them and fill them in. 32-3-10 or similar fertilizer. Mow at 1-1 1/2 inches OFTEN. With the fertilizer it is essential to water so lawn doesn’t burn up. I filled in 3 dead spots about 3 foot around already this season."
"Mowing low encourages lateral or spreading growth of Bermuda as long as it’s done often"
I'll add that I tried Scott's premium top soil and it's mostly chopped up mulch bits, hardly premium... Do some research or maybe hit up a nursery or landscape company.
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - ScottyB - 06-25-2018
Lee you guys can't ever sell that hoss. those tractors are practically rolling American history exhibits at this point. i feel they share a lot in common with locomotives from the same time period - given a bunch of grease to the joints and some paint when the rust starts, they most likely could literally run forever. that's what you get when stuff was designed by guys with slide rules that erred really, really hard on the side of overengineering and plastic wasn't really a thing yet.
Steve85 Wrote:Tractors, they have a soul and they desire to be free to roam the fields.
lol, we rarely get to see them frolic in the wild like that
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - Sully - 06-26-2018
(06-25-2018, 09:42 AM)WRXtranceformed Wrote: One of my neighbors has a JD exactly like the one you got Ryan, he even has the rear wagon attachment. Why though I don't know, his yard is like less than a quarter acre, it's totally overkill [emoji14]Shouldn't really seed in the summer. You'll use a ton of water and probably still not get the result you want. Aerate and seed in early fall like September.
My landscaper called out with a stomach bug last week and I was not really excited about having to mow myself this weekend in 101+ temps before heat index. A neighborhood Facebook post and an hour later and a neighborhood kid and his dad swung by and got it done. We're finally getting aerated tomorrow and I needed that done; I'm hoping this helps fix our thinning grass in some spots. This internet tells us to overseed after an aeration, anyone have experience with this? My original plan was just to fertilize and let that creeper bermuda do its thing...and I worry a little about mixing strains of grass or reintroducing more weeds like seeding seems to do
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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - BLINGMW - 06-26-2018
Psh my old husqvarna and I don't need a locking diff, I just hang off the side and get my MotoGP practice in.
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - ScottyB - 06-26-2018
BLINGMW Wrote:I just hang off the side and get my MotoGP practice in.
of all MM'ers i'd consider you most likely to be the first of us to enter into lawnmower racing
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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - Evan - 06-26-2018
(06-26-2018, 08:48 AM)Sully Wrote: Shouldn't really seed in the summer. You'll use a ton of water and probably still not get the result you want. Aerate and seed in early fall like September.warm season grasses you seed in early summer
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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - WRXtranceformed - 06-26-2018
Thanks Steve and Sully for the tips! Lawn got punched today, looks good. They said just to water it like crazy for the next 5 days then every other day for the 8 days after that. I'll probably go ahead and do a fertilizer or lime treatment between now and then too
The Super Official Homeowners Thread - Senor_Taylor - 06-27-2018
Oh man, I'm digging this conversation topic right now. I spent a summer fixing up a 50s Farmall Cub when I was younger and we used a Ford Tractor before the diff exploded and an International for all of our farm stuff.
I fell off a tractor when I was young and got ran over by it. That was a fun day. Had tire marks on my back for a while.
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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - ScottyB - 06-28-2018
Senor_Taylor Wrote:I fell off a tractor when I was young and got ran over by it
this explains many things
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - WRXtranceformed - 06-29-2018
(06-23-2018, 09:27 PM)Ryan T Wrote: I know you fellas like you fancy battery powered push mowers and such, but sometimes, a man wants a real mower and a real weed eater. As you all know, we recently bought a new place on a little over half an acre. The back yard has some steep spots, but the front yard is pretty much sloping and smooth, but has a creek at the bottom. I’d been planning on replacing my old Lowe’s brand line John Deere L100 since before we moved, but I bit the bullet to day and bought one...along with a new weed eater. Mower is a John Deere X570 with a 25hp twin cylinder engine, 48” cut, cruise control and a locking rear differential. Mowed my yard with it today and it was awesome. Super pleased. The larger cut along with the hydrostatic transmission cut my actual riding time down from an hour and fifteen minutes to 50 minutes. Towards this fall I’ll be buying the snow blade to push snow this winter, no more shoveling for this fat boy! Also, ordered the HDAP knobby tires, which should be here Tuesday.
Also bought a Stihl FS56 straight shaft weed eater. It’s just a tad shorter than I’d like, but way better than the curved shaft it’s replacing.
Both units come with a 4 year (500 hour for the mower) full coverage warranty. Also came with two sweet John Deere hats.
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RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - Deceus - 07-02-2018
Finally tackled the retaining wall. I was hoping to wait for cooler weather but it seemed to be getting progressively worse. The shovel I bought was of little use because of all the large rock mixed in with the gravel but the pickaxe did work. Looks like the bricks just got rocked forward a bit at some point and were only leaning because they were resting on the gravel filling that spilled out. Definitely wasn't the funnest weekend activity but well worth avoiding the $2,000 bill.
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Homeownership sure is fun.
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - WRXtranceformed - 09-26-2018
Well we got out of Hurricane FloRida relatively unscathed compared to the rest of the state. The floodwaters came closer than I would have liked to our house and they nearly crested the top of a hill into our neighbors' backyard. They back to a hiking trail that is about 8 feet below, and there is a stream another 12 feet below that and about 50 yards away...wow. We did get a leak through the furnace roof vent cap which I confirmed during a storm tonight, fortunately it's right over the decking at the top of the attic access so I've got a bucket there until I get someone out here to fix it. It could have been a lot worse considering the amount of wind and rain we got, and I feel a lot better about our flooding status. That was a once in a lifetime storm so I can't see flooding ever getting worse than that.
We did finally have some success with the lawn. One of my neighbors has a fluffy, impeccable bermuda lawn and we asked him what he used. He told us milorganite was the answer. The stuff is completely organic (byproduct of poop from wastewater plants or something), doesn't burn your lawn and it's CHEAP...like a third of the cost of Scotts stuff. It slowly feeds over about 2-3 weeks. We're about ready to do another application but it dramatically improved the color and thickness of our lawn and helped the grass grow in dead areas it just wouldn't take on before. I'm probably still going to have to do an anti-weed treatment at some point because the only downside is that it feeds EVERYTHING that's in your lawn, but once the bermuda gets thick enough it chokes out everything else. A+ would recommend, you can get it by the bag at Lowes
The Super Official Homeowners Thread - JPolen01 - 09-26-2018
My dad always used milorganite when he used to treat three lawn himself. You're right - it's made from microbes that are added to waste water that consume all the nutrients. It smells awful and will ruin your shoes but it works!
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - WRXtranceformed - 09-27-2018
(09-26-2018, 10:24 PM)JPolen01 Wrote: My dad always used milorganite when he used to treat three lawn himself. You're right - it's made from microbes that are added to waste water that consume all the nutrients. It smells awful and will ruin your shoes but it works!
Oh yeah it smells like bigfoot's dick but man that stuff works
RE: The Super Official Homeowners Thread - ScottyB - 09-27-2018
Ryan T Wrote:
just wanted to follow up on this to say my sister just got one of these as well. they have a very wooded/steep 1.5 acres and this baby is already putting in some major work hauling sod, pavers, and eventually leaf matter in the trailer they also got to go with it. they've already had to using the rear locker a number of times with the wet weather and the inclines while they finish up the landscaping around their new back patio. great little unit from what i hear.
not gonna lie, i'm stealing the keys and driving it around for no reason with a big dumb smile when i get up to see them again.