re: At what age did you start cutting grass?

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with an electric weedeater and two miles of extension cords! What a PITA.

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Preach! And they burned up fast with 300’-400’ of extension cords.

My paw paw had me on a tractor at 8 or so. After I cut the grass at our house, I headed over to his to start on his 20+ acres of fields.

All I did as a kid was cut grass. He paid me $5/hr in middle school and HS though which was more than minimum wage

3rd grade so 8?

Push mower.

Stick edger


Hand grass shears (Pre weed eater days).

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Around 7. Dad already had me driving a tractor by then and got tired of my mom running into everything on the riding mower. He decided to put me on the mower and along with farm work I mowed the grass until the day I moved out. The riding mower was probably thankful. Before me mowing, my mom had run it into the back wall of the house, run into parked farm equipment, stumps etc.

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Hand grass shears (Pre weed eater days).

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We were fancy...

I was young enough that when I started I had to use the middle bar highlighted above to push.

I was 8 at the time, and all we had was the old style reel mower. My dad had died and I was the only male left in the house, and the oldest of the 3 kids, so it fell on me.

I earned that allowance.


As for what's happening in today's society------too many people are raising pussies who have little sense of what a bit of work is, or even how to accomplish it.