When the Ex moved out a year ago September I lost the labor to mow my lawn. Sex God did it once or twice with my manual push mower during the winter until I finally bought a new edge trimmer. The kids took turns using it to keep my little living room sized front & back lawns down.
Until I ran out of string! Drat it! So “new lawnmower” went on my list, finally purchasing one about two weeks ago. Of course, by now, my lawn in 2 feet high. Yup.. TWO FEET HIGH!
It took Evan and I almost an hour to figure out the crazy assembling instructions. This should not be rocket science! And if it wasn’t for my 12-year old I’d NEVER had figured out how to get the bag on! I got my emergency gas can filled and added gasoline & oil to the engine. (Christ.. its supposed to get serviced like a car! Its a LAWNMOWER!!) Sigh. Deal with it later… gotta get this lawn down!
And, crossing my fingers, I pulled the string and shock (!) it ran! Of course my grass was so high I had to tilt the mower up to “mount” my lawn. Hahaha. It was amazingly difficult to push and I can only hope that was due to the height of the grass. But most likely due to the type I purchased. Its a small lawn so I didn’t buy an expensive model.
So I wrestled the thing along. I got about one quarter through the grass and was tackling a particularly high section when the mower up and died. First thought….
Oh, my God… I broke it already!
Not really.. but THIS is what I learned during the entire encounter which would have been helpful to know SOMEWHERE before I started!
High grass will clog mower somehow. When engine sputters, something is most likely clogged, move it back quickly. When you walk mower backwards it coughs out a trail of grass clippings like chewed cud. Running mower over trails of grass clipping cud will only work half the time in getting said clippings into the bagger. Buy new edging string, mower does NOT get the edges well.
Whew.. mowing grass this high is EXHAUSTING.
Backyard wasn't 2 feet high lucky boy
Best part… watching my Evan tackle the back yard by himself.
Priceless….
I gotta put my feet up.