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Welcome back Dave, you glorious asshole, timely thread, I am a recent lawn nerd in training. With low expectations and limited motivation I aerated, seeded, fertilized and set up a pretty sweet diy sprinkler system this spring. We mowed it way too low last year and by we I mean my wife and a lot of it died and got taken over by crab grass. Youtube said tenacity is good as a preemergent so hope it works out before summer.
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Just finished mowing and bagging. Tomorrow its shrub trimming
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Welcome back Dave, you glorious asshole, timely thread, I am a recent lawn nerd in training. With low expectations and limited motivation I aerated, seeded, fertilized and set up a pretty sweet diy sprinkler system this spring. We mowed it way too low last year and by we I mean my wife and a lot of it died and got taken over by crab grass. Youtube said tenacity is good as a preemergent so hope it works out before summer.



Tenacity is good PE for a lot of grass types. Good luck, man and share your progress as you go. What type of grass do you have?
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We came from an HOA and I'll never go back.



This x a million.

I'd rather be homeless than deal with a HOA. :lol:

I had to deal with it for a while when I lived with my ex and it was awful, they kept sending letters about shit that didn't even matter.

Everyone I know that lives in one has problems.

One of my most basic requirements on a new house is no HOA.
I had to buy in an older neighborhood in Vegas because all newer developments had a HOA and that's a deal breaker for me.


Yeah would have loved to not have one but the house we totally loved was part of one so it is what it is. If the market was less competitive down here we’d probably have tried to hold out and be more picky. Everything else was exactly what we wanted and then some with this place so we accepted the HOA as a necessary evil.

That said this is such a non intrusive HOA compared to my condo HOA in Chicago. Assuming there isn’t some massive bullshit coming down the line this one is a dream compared to the shit show of my last HOA.



Some are better than others but none at all is better than all of them.

More importantly lawn care is a privilege, not a burden. Don your best jorts, lace up the new balances, and smell that fresh cut grass.
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Dave wrote:
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I spray weed killer about a foot in to my neighbor's shitty yard to keep his dandelions and such at bay. Seems to have worked.

How much lawn are you mowing? Seems the battery powered mowers are more suited to smaller yards, not replacing riding mowers :lol:


i do the same with over lapping the Weed N Feed well into the neighbor's yard, since they are content to have a yard made up mostly of clover and weeds. doesn't help when the dandelions in the yard across the street start blowing seeds all over the neighborhood, though. :mad:

the size of my yard is right on the edge of needing a riding mower, and i wouldn't mind the exercise of just using the push mower, but the *time* saved makes it a win. also helps with the huge amount of leaves i get every fall - i attach the ol' Monster Leaf bag to the back, and only have to empty it maybe 4-5 times, versus 20-25 if i used the riding mower's bagger. it kinda looks like this:

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they do make battery-powered riding mowers, too btw, and that's what i would be looking at. i've already removed the engine and replaced the camshaft on my current riding mower, and i'm not doing any more big repairs to it - if it dies, it dies.
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I didn’t know they made battery powered riding mowers! What kind of battery packs do they take?!
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Dave wrote:I didn’t know they made battery powered riding mowers! What kind of battery packs do they take?!


some take regular lead acid batteries, like the Ryobi
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some take lithium, like the Cub Cadets

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they're pretty pricey, but i'm getting old and lazy :D
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Everyone seems to rave about the battery powered EGO rotary push mowers so I can imagine Cub Cadet put some time and effort in to their riding line.

My Honda mower is gas, but I use the Milwaukee M18 powered lawn tools for the rest. Fantastic tools and no complaints so far. I use 5.0 and 9.0aH batteries and never have any trouble getting my whole yard done.
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My pappy's girlfriend was raving about her battery powered (push) lawn mower just last weekend.
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Get out of my way - I have dinosaurs to burn and yards to mow...
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When I get a yard I might do yardwork and lawncare. But I can tell you it will not look like that. :lol:
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I'm just don't think I'm ready to have an electric mower. Something about ripping the pull cord and smelling 2 stroke.
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Dave wrote:I'm just don't think I'm ready to have an electric mower. Something about ripping the pull cord and smelling 2 stroke.



i'm ready for a battery-powered rider. Something about replacing the camshaft, belts, and pulleys, the plastic fan on top of engine, fixing the slipping transmission, adjusting valves ... F that. next big repair it needs its gone.
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Dave wrote:I'm just don't think I'm ready to have an electric mower. Something about ripping the pull cord and smelling 2 stroke.



i'm ready for a battery-powered rider. Something about replacing the camshaft, belts, and pulleys, the plastic fan on top of engine, fixing the slipping transmission, adjusting valves ... F that. next big repair it needs its gone.


I don't blame you! If I was in that situation I would certainly be looking at alternatives :D

Ostinato Rubato wrote:When I get a yard I might do yardwork and lawncare. But I can tell you it will not look like that. :lol:


If your area is like the rest of SoCal, you won't be able to due to water restrictions :feelsbadman:
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Dave wrote:I don't blame you! If I was in that situation I would certainly be looking at alternatives :D


it is 10 years old, so its not like that stuff happened all at once. next BIG repair, though .... battery!
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Sad reacts only. Due to all the rain we've had over the past month my yard grew too much so I had to re-scalp it last night. So another week or 2 of this until it's back to fully green.
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I wish I could run my sprinklers. We've had nothing but bullshit rain and it's fucking up my yard. My grass needs 80*+ and lots of sun. Instead we've had bullshit 60-70* down pours every day and it's at risk of fungus and weeds.
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It needs to stop raining here every goddamn day
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Pickle wrote:We haven't had rain for nearly a week now. I wanted everything dry for the weed treatment. No rain forecasted for the next 10 days.


Glad to hear. I've been waiting for the same thing to lay out another round of weed treatment as well as some mosquito spray and fertilizer.

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Girl same. I hate the rain so much. It's supposed to be a scorching 100+ degrees and sunny af right now :cry:
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Dave wrote:Girl same. I hate the rain so much. It's supposed to be a scorching 100+ degrees and sunny af right now :cry:

Wow, the grass is always greener . . .
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I live in Texas. It’s supposed to be hot af.

We had a month of rain and with my warm season grass it nearly fucked it up. I’d rather run my irrigation system a couple times a week to deep water it than get a month of downpour and 70* weather. That means I can’t mow my yard as the soil is too soft and promotes clover and other bullshit weeds. Once it’s hot and sunny every day the Bermuda takes over and suffocates out the garbage.
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I'm getting one hell of a garden this year. Hope the bugs and rabbits leave it alone
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