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Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: Actor] #6798739
03/11/20 07:57 PM
03/11/20 07:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Actor
I know that I am "Old Codger", but I am sitting here laughing and blowing water out my nose. In the late 1940 and 1950s, I was mowing probably the same size yards you fellows are with an old reel type lawn mower for 25 to 50 cents. If it was almost 2 acres like the one yard I cut, I got $1.50. The first years I hoofed it pushing mower ahead of me and the last 3 years I road my bike, pulling mowing behind the bike. A couple of the walking jobs, took longer to get and back than it did to do the mowing. Mowing in summer and shoveling snow in the winter. I was planning on starting that the year I turned 4, (close by yards), but was laid up most of the summer in a body cast with 3 broken Vertebrae's and cracked pelvis. So, I started when I was 5 and added trapping to fray when I was 6 in 1947.

Times certainly have changed...

Garry-


Yea and a car cost 10 bucks LOL !!!!

I bought my first car mowing yards 1976 rally sport Camaro (man wish I still had it). Did the same pulled a 19 inch push mower behind my bike. Had a sissy bar banana seat huffy.. (wish I still had it)

Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: Actor] #6798791
03/11/20 08:34 PM
03/11/20 08:34 PM
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Dunbar, Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by Actor
I know that I am "Old Codger", but I am sitting here laughing and blowing water out my nose. In the late 1940 and 1950s, I was mowing probably the same size yards you fellows are with an old reel type lawn mower for 25 to 50 cents. If it was almost 2 acres like the one yard I cut, I got $1.50.

Times certainly have changed...

Garry-


I still have a reel mower. Cuts the grass getter and the faster I go the faster it spins

Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: coonman220] #6798912
03/11/20 10:09 PM
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I bought a reel mower. I love it.


wanna be goat farmer.
Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: white marlin] #6798960
03/11/20 10:57 PM
03/11/20 10:57 PM
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Newark, Ohio 83 years
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Originally Posted by white marlin
Originally Posted by Actor
was laid up most of the summer in a body cast with 3 broken Vertebrae's and cracked pelvis. So, I started when I was 5 and added trapping to fray when I was 6 in 1947.
Garry-


geeze, Garry! what did you DO...mouth off to a grandparent, or something???


No, if I had done that I would have been dead. The old cellar doors that laid in a horizontal position was left open. An adult cousin of mine was trying to tickle me and I ran from her. I ran around the corner and there was no floor there. I lit at the bottom on concrete steps. Seems to be a habit of mine... trying to walk on air.

Garry-


“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”

Have been trapping 77 years…
Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: coonman220] #6798963
03/11/20 11:03 PM
03/11/20 11:03 PM
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Coonman, I know the landscapers around here are running and gunning from April to about October and then they are done. Working 12+ hour days all summer long and sometimes 16 hour days. But then a lot of them don't work from November to March. Sounds like ideal working schedule if you're a trapper.


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Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: coonman220] #6798971
03/11/20 11:14 PM
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Did good today putting in 2 ton of deco rock.....I need to get the spring cleanup ad going.


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Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: Marty] #6798981
03/11/20 11:24 PM
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Probably don’t need to get to excited, looks like a couple pretty good shots of snow and a major cool down next two weeks. Looks like spring was just messing with us


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Re: Cut grass in off season work [Re: coonman220] #6798990
03/11/20 11:29 PM
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Wabash, IN USA
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When I was very young and dumb, I couldn't wait to be able to mow. My grandparents got me a reel type push mower for my birthday and I mowed all the small lake yards around their lake place for a popsicle. I thought I made out like a bandit, I loved mowing! Ha! I learned over the years and now I have a 72" Exmark that flys and can cut 7 acres an hour so I am not stuck on a mower long.


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