re: Do you still cut your own grass or do you hire it out?

Mow my own gaaaht damn grass, every week, 2 acres, w/a 22yo JD LT 160 mower, edge driveway, back patio, sidewalk, both sides of street, and blow off it all when finished…

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That only makes sense is you work every hour you’re awake.

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It also makes sense if you value some free time.

I am 74 and I still mow my lawn.

I do admit to paying my nephew to cut the grass this past summer. He was starting a grass cutting business and I wanted to support him. Summers in LA are brutal. I waved to him from the pool when he was done.

I went to all fake grass about 5 years ago. I love it. Looks perfect and I never needed a lawn mower again.

Oh hell yeah! The day i stop cutting my own grass I am officially old.

Hired it out three years ago.

I have always cut my own yard. I enjoy it, pop on my noise cancelling headphones and just take my own sweet time on my zero turn. Now weed eating I freaking hate. Only do it a couple times a year. The rest of the time its weed killer or diesel sprayed in my ditches.

I have a side job in lawn care. I have 18 yards and turn down work all the time. Plenty people don't cut their own grass.

Yes. I like it. I live out in freakin country and have about 2-3 acres around the house / shop / barn I have to cut. But, it's not all putting green grass. Much of it is under trees and sparsley grows so I only cut most of it about every 3 weeks during the summer. Do cut my back yard ever other week.

I do use the zero turn to cut the trails around my fields and some of the wooded ones. Bushhog for the rest.

And I use this beast, Ariens Apex 60: