how early is too early?, i wanna mow now

start mowing son

far too early a******

try 2pm.

think of the neighbours!

f*** slackers who sleep in

I probably wouldn't do it before 9am.

what about people with hangovers spook??!?!?!

I am sure you can relate!

I think anytime after 8am. It sorta depends on the area you live in.

Otherwise, you might as well wait until 5pm when it is getting cooler. Screw that freaks that mow at 12:00pm on a 32deg day!

Mow in the afternoon, better for the grass, better for neighbours, less likely to result in heat stroke.

start mowing son

QFT.
Depends. It's illegal to do it before 7am, ever. I wouldn't do it before about 8 or half past on a weekend, 9 if you're a nice neighbour.
Personally, i like to mow the grass just before sunset, there's usually more of a breeze then than the still morning.

Screw that freaks that mow at 12:00pm on a 32deg day!

Cheaper than going to the gym...

last edited by MrHardware at 09:08:28 14/Dec/08

8am. If your neighbourhood is anything like mine, as soon as you hear one mower/whipper snipper going, the rest start too. I like to think of it as the sunday morning choir.

I will do it whenever I have the time to do it, tbh...

If I cant do it in the morning then the afternoon it is.

Fire it up man - it's too considerate that you even bothered asking. I can hear a guy about a block away with what sounds like a chainsaw tearing s*** up.

Afternoon time, for the cool breezes and the sun going away.

if some c*** started mowing the lawn at 7am on my only day off i would f***in go ape s***..

I'd just go for it, if your neighbours complain you can just apologise and alter the time you start up the mower next time.

Just make sure you wear your wifes Sunday dress.

8am. If your neighbourhood is anything like mine, as soon as you hear one mower/whipper snipper going, the rest start too. I like to think of it as the sunday morning choir.

rest of street is now mowing also, and im all done

8am

yuck dude, sif you'd wanna mow anytime before 5pm in this heat.
f***in sucks that you've gotta mow like bi-daily also atm. our agent is all up in our grill to mow more.. you're welcome to come mow my place anytime spook!

yer, tell me about it, i only mowed 3 weeks ago

I mowed the back last weekend and it needs doing again :(

I mowed the fron two weeks ago and it needs doing :(

But I did buy a new petrol can which I'm keen to fill up and try out :)

After lunch is the time for mowing the yard. However if you are one of those a******s that uses a leaf blower afterwards you deserve to tied down to a meat ants nest and then beaten.

Anything before 8am on a Sunday is just rude, after 9 is okay I guess and after 10 is preferable.

Or you can just do it late in the afternoon :D

It's less hot in the morning than it is in the afternoon, so I'd be doing it at 9am+

Thankfully I live in townhouse complex...no lawns to mow! My last place was f***ED, but thankfully the Real estate agent never saw it!

That said a neighbour was drilling s*** at 630 the other weekend, he's lucky i slept through it, otherwise i'd be out there telling him to STFU.

it should be illegal to mow before 10am imo

I wouldn't do it earlier than 9am, especially on a Sunday.

i just mowed the lawn. im with spook, that s*** grows way too quickly.. was only a few weeks ago that I did it and s*** was like a jungle.

After 8am is fine imo

Started 7:30am this morning. 3 acres of lawn, 2 litres of water, 2 beers, and 3 f***ing hours later, finally done... for another 2 weeks. I'd buy a ride on, but this beats going to the gym at least.

I would say 8am for a Saturday and 9am for Sunday.

You mow your own lawn?
Either concrete it or pay someone to come in monthly during the middle of the day during the middle of the week.

Cheap bastard

Lol Hermi ... yeah cause concrete is just so cool during summer. Then again mate you could always send one of your minions there out to do it.... after all you do all the cooking :)

haha, mowing

an wtf is with bright arse white concrete everywhere....
tint it ffs




:)

Screw that freaks that mow at 12:00pm on a 32deg day!

That was me last weekend. Had to pull in the reinforcment mower from next door. 2 mowers me and my bro no catchers and grass up to shoulder height. Got so bad from the neighbours tree being all over the yard from the SES coming in after the storms. Nieghbour finally got a skip and we moved the tree pieces from all over the yard and got the job done...

how good is it once you are done though

yard looks awesome

Until the next day when it is half a foot high again.

It's either too hot and dry and it dies, or it's too hot and wet and it grows too fast.

Grass is fine if u look after it and have good soil underneath.

I don't think 'looking after it' and 'having good soil' makes the grass grow slower... probably faster if anything.

Also, I mow mine every fortnight in summer. 3 weeks is too long. Ideally i'd like to mow it ever 10 days, but weekends are my only real opportunity.

wow, thats hardcore;

my grass takes an hour to mow if its short, hour and 45 minutes to mow if its long

i dont have time to be mowing it every two weeks

Actually mr hardware, it was in relation to the second sentence of that post, not the first.

Edit: I can appreciate how u came to read that tho. The gist I got was it was a complaint about grass being difficult to look after - I really don't think it is.

last edited by Agent 99 at 17:22:13 14/Dec/08

An hour if its short? It takes you 45 mins longer if its long? How long is long? How big is your block of land? What kind of mower do you use?

I have two mowers, a Victa two-stroke (160cc motor) and a Rover 4-stroke (b&s motor).

Ah, i get ya agent 99.

my grass takes an hour to mow if its short, hour and 45 minutes to mow if its long

I probably wouldn't do it before 9am.

Yeah this, on weekends I try not to make too much noise before 9-10am. I mean it's the weekend ffs who even wakes up before then? Bloody mutants that's who.

If you want an actual time then by law it's:

Power tools — general
Many people use power tools (including lawn mowers and leaf blowers) around their homes and businesses to
maintain, fix or make things. Under the Environmental Protection Regulation 1998, restrictions apply to the use
of these things. The provisions do not prevent people from using these tools but limits the impact noise from
these tools might have on neighbours.
The general use of power tools (including lawn mowers) must comply with the following requirements:
Restrictions *
No audible noise permitted between:
• 7pm and 7am — Monday to Saturday.
• 7pm and 8am — Sunday and public holidays.

From here. So any time after 8am and you're safe legally.

edit: Unless you live in a gated community in which case they might have their own private guidelines that you should probably look into.

last edited by whoop at 17:55:57 14/Dec/08

i bought an aldi mower and its been my only aldi failure

briggs and stratten motor, 3.75hp 4 stroke, just not strong enough

if the grass is long, it stalls the mower, so i ahve to do small sections at a time, backwards and forwards

i hate it

need a two stroke mower to get the job done

our block is 750ms

^^ I had an old mower that I took the throttle governor out of, come up to long grass just flatten that sucker and listen to it pinging its head off. Got through that long grass easy. That mower has since been tossed out (motor was still fine) and I just use a weed eater with a steel blade on it now for really long grass and a line trimmer for shorter grass/edges.

Our block is 450 and it takes about 1/2 hour.

We bought our mower off the old guy that used to own the house. Paid him $50 for a Victa 'Mayfair' 2-Stoke which must be pushing 20+ years old.

Best $50 I've ever spent. It starts first time even after sitting idle for months with no use through winter.

I had to take it to the mower joint at Moorooka a few years back. I turned it over to check the blades, only to find the blades were basically no longer there and the only thing cutting the grass was the heads of the bolts holding on the 'blades'. I couldn't get them off myself :(

Speaking off mowing, I'm gunna grab a beer and fire it up.

you jerks that wake up at like 10-11am on weekends are f***en noobs at life


wake up early and go out and do something, you can do a heap of s*** and loook at the time and its mid day!

hi5 petey

i couldnt stand to sleep the day away

pfft I get up at 6:30 every week day, on weekends I like to sleep in. People can mow the lawn if they want coz it won't wake me up. I can sleep through just about anything.

you jerks that wake up at like 10-11am on weekends are f***en noobs at life

Yeah, I can't sleep in anymore. I'm so used to getting up at 6am or earlier that on the weekends I just wake up at that time. Sleeping in for me these days is til 7 or 8am.

That being said, I can understand the habit of sleeping in til midday. I never liked when I did it though; hated waking up with the feeling the day was nearly over.

spook how do you do it. how do you get up so early after getting banged by your wife and a strapon the night before?

you jerks that wake up at like 10-11am on weekends are f***en noobs at life

Or childless

Just mowed mine then. Hadn't mowed in 3 weeks and it looked terrible.

We have someone mow ours and also does the garden.
They do it while we are at work so I don't actually see them.
They do a good job

i pay some guy $50 to do my lawn. I don't know how long it takes him, cause i'm not here when he does it. It's money well spent that I don't have to spend what little 'free time' i have on the weekends doing it.

We used to pay the kid next door $20 bucks. Then they moved and took the cheap labour with them :(

There re plenty of Kiwi's around Kat and they would probably do it for half what the kid next door was doing it for.

You want cheap labour just look to the south sea mexicans.

Victa 'Mayfair' 2-Stoke

Mission, as mowers haven't really progressed in technology very much at all in about 40 years (yes, you could get key start and self propelled in the late 1960's) You'll find your trusty old Mayfair will be possibly pushing 35 or more. Is it a goldy sort of colour, with a catcher that's not quite as long but a bit taller than usual? If its the model of mayfair that i'm thinking of, it'd have the 116 or 125cc 2-stroke? If it is as old as i think it is, if you ever think of parting with it, will you let me know please?

last edited by MrHardware at 22:35:18 14/Dec/08

Here she is, and you're right, it is a goldy colour.

Could do with a scrub down though :/

I have no idea on the engine capacity though.

Please tell me it's worth $1,000's.

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8660/dsc0221uh4.th.jpg

http://imageshack.us/img/butansn.png

last edited by mission at 22:38:24 14/Dec/08

I mow at 7:01am every Sunday, or Saturday if I don't play golf.

I usually wait to fire the whipper snipper or hedge trimmer up as they are much louder, so they get done last at around 8am :)

Most people in our street are all finished mowing by 9am and most of them have kids, so I know they're all awake when I started mowing!

Mowing late on a Sunday is the worst time ever, because then you don't get to enjoy your sweet smelling, beautifully mown lawn for the rest of the day.

I didn't mow for 3 weeks recently as I'm fighting a nutgrass battle, the whole house was depressing because of the ugliness of the yard. Battle has been won now though, and I mowed this morning.

This thread is depressing.

nah it's not worth thousands unfortunately. It's a fair example of one, apart from the handle, but that being said lots of them are dead and buried now. A lot of them suffered cracked chassis on the sides halfway between the front and rear wheels.
That one you've got there is an early to mid seventies model, about the same vintage as a HQ Holden. Get yourself a bolt and nut for the handle eh?
Also, you can hose mowers down, don't be too afraid. Just don't do it right after you've mowed.

Nice magnetic letter D, you've got kids, eh?

last edited by MrHardware at 23:15:29 14/Dec/08

the 8am rule sucks in summer for early birds but I suppose is fair in the suburbs. but I get up at 3:40 during the week, sleep in till 5:30 on weekends.

also i live on large acreage and use any machinery anytime.

brushcutters, dozers, drills, augers etc.

usually hit the yard/paddock @ 5 after a cup of tea on weekends go till 9:30ish then have bit of a feed then do normal weekend stuff. Sometimes I might do a slow hour or two during the day but usually dont kick back in till 4pm and go for another hour or two at the most.

I can do this 24/7 in the holidays if I stick to XXXX Golds or lites in the arvos and get to bed by 9. if I hit the piss hard I basically lose the afternoon and u shave bout half off the morning. Even after reasonably epic pissups I still am rollin by 6:30 am.

you really beat the heat and catch the best and coolest parts of the day.

I suppose it boils down to country life vs city life. both have their perks and drawbacks.

One of my mates borrowed my mower 3 weeks ago and is yet to give it back. My lawn looks terrible. :(

My mate always borrows my mower then fills the fuel can to full. I haven't bought fuel for the thing since I bought it 12 months ago :D

I got a Rover with a mighty Briggs & Stratton .. but now I moved and have gone back to renting, all the gardening stuff is included so it's sitting in the shed being neglected :(

A lot of them suffered cracked chassis on the sides halfway between the front and rear wheels.

Well you sure know your mowers.

I took the photo from that side because there is a bit of a hole in it on the other side :) Getting a bolt and nut has been on the to-do list for 7 years now. It's getting closer to the top.

And yes, I do have kids. You should be on CSI.

:-)

Spook
Posts: 23677
Location: Brisbane, Queensland

i dont have time to be mowing it every two weeks

something doesnt make sense here...

i live on qgl at work, unfortunately cant mow the grass at home while working

yes, you can.

http://www.araa.asn.au/acra/acra2002/Papers/Potgieter-Bright-Diegel-Tlale.pdf

haha, that would be wicked;

i mowed my lawn on saturday arvo... fkn hot! had to be done... i mowed avbout 4weeks back n the grass was getting near 2m high at my back fence n when it gets that high the old biddies that live around me start complaining that i'm making snake homes. i've told ém a few times that it's a myth that snakes live in long grass & that the snakes are most likely living in thier cielings :D

victa 4-stroke mower. tuff old thing but its losing compression atm. still... cuts down swathes of 2m high grass n grinds thier stems down the to the dirt. metal.

as for mowing times... ppl mowing early used to bother me when i was a teen sleeping off intoxications side effects but it really doesn't bother me anymore even though i do like a good sleepin. with my a/c n fan cranking they could whippersnip right outside my window n still my snoring would prolly be louder :D