Some of us are still mowing grass in October
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Topic: Some of us are still mowing grass in October
Posted By: cdon_FL
Subject: Some of us are still mowing grass in October
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 3:15pm
FYI -- way down here in south GA, the grass is still growing. Slowing down a bit, thankfully... but still growing. Have to get up early and get it done to beat the heat   ------------- Chris in NE Florida |
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Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 3:44pm
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I'll be mowing as soon as I get home from work tonight. Won't be mowing for too much longer I think. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 4:02pm
| I hope to only have to get the CA out one more time this fall. I'm gonna wait another week and then that's it (hopefully). |
Posted By: KJCHRIS
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 4:37pm
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Mowed the lawns and along the lane last Tuesday, will try to get most of it mowed again tomorrow if it doesn't rain as predicted. Growing faster than it did in July ( No rain here in late June & all July). ------------- AC 200, CAH, AC185D bareback, AC 180D bareback, D17 III, WF. D17 Blackbar grill, NF. D15 SFW. Case 1175 CAH, Bobcat 543B, |
Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 5:19pm
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Hey come up to WI. I think we have a few more times to mow. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: Bob D. (La)
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 5:38pm
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Don't complain. I will be m0wing thru early Dec., maybe longer. Hope to be able to skip from mid Dec. thru February. LOL ------------- When you find yourself in a hole,PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL!!! |
Posted By: littlemarv
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 5:41pm
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Last year if I remember right, I had to mow lawn before I could go rifle hunting. (Weekend before Thanksgiving) ------------- The mechanic always wins. B91131, WC23065, WD89101, CA29479, B1, Early B10, HB212, 416H |
Posted By: ksbowman
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 5:49pm
| My pastures need to be mowed again this fall. Here in Kansas we have had plenty of rain and great grass growth. I won't have to feed hay for quite a while if we don't have a hard freeze early. |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 5:59pm
| Lawn Mowing has slowed way down here in NE TX since it decided to quit rainin. Finally got the unused pastures shredded. Weeds jaw deep to a giraffe, Had to wait to build one mower out of 3 or 4 pieces of mowers. #1 son did a great job of piecing bits and pieces together to make one. It is doing a better than average job without putting too much strain on my Massy 1260 |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 6:16pm
| Some years, I've mowed right up to Christmas. Currently slowing down due to lack of rain, here in central MD... |
Posted By: allisorange
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 6:26pm
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Its still growing here in Upper Michigan. Crazy year in this area. John Carlson |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 8:07pm
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If we get some rain I will be moving a few more times. Mowed around the house at the farm this morning while there was still a little bit of dew to keep down the dust. Tenant may be able to get one more cutting off the hay fields. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: theropod
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 8:11pm
| Mowed for what I hope is the last time in 2017 last Sunday (north Arkansas). |
Posted By: ctbowles58
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 8:11pm
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Still mowing here in Missouri, A few years back I mowed my yard for the last time on Thanksgiving day. ------------- 190XT 2WD45 WF D15 D14 CA BIG10 302 & 303 bailers 77G rake 80R mower 6 plows and alot more |
Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 8:40pm
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Still mowing in ND, m ore now than we did in July but could end next week if it gets as cold as they are forecasting. ------------- 1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner) |
Posted By: Joe(TX)
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 9:17pm
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Most people around here are still baling hay. I won't finish until late this month. ------------- 1970 190XT, 1973 200, 1962 D-19 Diesel, 1979 7010, 1957 WD45, 1950 WD, 1961 D17, Speed Patrol, D14, All crop 66 big bin, 180 diesel, 1970 170 diesel, FP80 forklift. Gleaner A |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 04 Oct 2017 at 11:51pm
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A few days ago the mountains west of me got up to 20 inches of snow, about 3 inches of rain down here on the plains over 12 days. Talking about a hard freeze next Monday and Tuesday with a high of 40 and low in the 20's. Still have 3d cutting to do but sometime in the next two months I'll get it done. One year I baled in January, pretty decent hay. ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 1:19am
| we sposed to gits rains here starting today and for next 2-3 days after, will need to mow again too, good thing I puts new blades on. |
Posted By: cpg
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 7:17am
Mine is still growing a bit too; I agree the weather has been funky. Never noticed you were from Perkins until reading you posted from "Upper Michigan". I live by Palmer so go through every time I go to the Escanaba show. |
allisorange wrote:Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 8:14am
| Still mowing up here in northern NY state, about 5 miles from Canada. We have had spotty frost, but no widespread killing frost yet. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 8:49am
Joe Wetherford rang a bell so i had to look it up. Sure enough it is by Mineral wells and not that far from Possum Kingdom Lake. Guess it was late 68 when I arrived at Ft Walters to learn how to hover.  |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 8:59am
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I mowed last week and will have to mow again. At least it's slowed down. Next week I'll finish picking pumpkins and mow the corn down. I had a disappointing sweet corn crop it was beautiful large perfect peaches and cream. Picked a dozen the next day I went out the coons had desamated the whole patch. I put up electric fence and they finished the patch off the next night. Looks like someone took a magic marker to the hood of your B |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 9:11am
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I mowed the last Friday in September. Mowed mostly weeds the grass isn't growing much from lack of rain and from being mowed as short as dragging the mower deck under the Snapper zero turn could cut (same as a Simplicity) a month earlier. The grass is nearly brown and has been for 6 or 8 weeks. I didn't mow enough last week to need raking. Normally if I mow every week I have to rake. That previous mowing did have enough cut grass for raking. Since then I have remounted the deck on the mower so I mowed at 4-1/2" tall instead of 2-1/2" tall. Gerald J. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 1:57pm
| I skipped mowing this week since its so dry a little rain today will have to mow next week and it won't be the last. A lot of leave to fall and be groundup yet, here in Ohio. |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 3:01pm
| Crazy year here as well. I need to mow, but it's been too wet. That's the weird part... |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 7:37pm
| Still mowing south central Iowa. When I get home from the flea market Monday will have to start all tractors and machinery and now everything again. Need to change oil and sharpen mower blades first |
Posted By: bradley6874
Date Posted: 05 Oct 2017 at 8:09pm
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Freind just cut 35 acers beutiful alfalfa for the fitfth cut weather holds about 2 more weeks he will cut another block and that will be sixth cuting that was the first he cut this spring and probly be it ------------- You can wash the dirt off the body but you can’t wash the farmer out of the heart and soul |
Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 06 Oct 2017 at 7:04am
I'm planning on sowing grass seed today and get it going good. It's been raining here now for the last 3 or 4 days. We had a REALLY dry spell from the middle of July until a week or so ago. Now it's raining just right. No downpours or deluges, just nice gentle ALL day rains. More coming for the next few days is the forecast. After NOT cutting grass for a month and a half, I'm gonna be busy the next few days, as soon as it quits raining. ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |