small yards, big riding mowers? missing something?

[Haytrader]

Norm,

  My mower is made in Corydon, Iowa. Here is a link to it. One reason I bought it was it steers with a joy stick, leaving one hand free for the beverage of choice.... ;)

http://www.countryclipper.com/jazee/jazee.htm

The chart on the link shows the smaller mower, I guess, as mine has a 27HP Kawasaki.

[Norm]

Small world Haytrader, my in laws lived in Corydon for several years and my BIL worked for shivvers. He was a tool and die machinist for em. Looks like a nice mower.

[Duane_Moore]

 8) 8) thanks for the site haytrader, the huskies start at about 8000, this looks ok to me.  will check it out   thanks   Duh----Duane 8) 8)

[Patty]

Nice mower Haytrader.
Up here in Bangor we seem to collect real "individuals".  If you pay much attention to what they do, it would drive you nuts...(short drive for these folks). Instead of using big mowers to mow little yards, they use no mowers at all! One guy decided mowing was too much of a hassle, so he covered the front yard in gravel (so he can rearrange his boat and trailers daily that are parked there), then he fenced in the back yard and borrowed a sheep from the neighbor to mow the back for him. Another neighbor brings in a big mower about once a year, once every two years if he is "busy", and mows the area around the house whether it needs it or not. : The guy behind him hasn't mowed in several years....this is a guy that parked two mobile homes next to each other, and then built a second floor (2 story) , over top of the two trailers parked below...we call it the Bangor Highrise.  ;D   We are quite the little community here.

[Patty]

I read my above post and come off sounding kinda snippy,   That is not  my intention at all. These folks are the best neighbors one could ever ask for...they are a little eccentric that's all. We all have an unwritten rule here in Bangor, "you mind your business, and I'll mind mine"; it is great. ;)

[J_T]

Sounds like my kind of place . I don't seem to fit in here as I mow when the wife pitches a fit ,more imporant things to do 8) Saw wood I do find it funney Tv remoat door remoat big mowerbeen waiting for a frig door remoat

[Haytrader]

Patty,

We have slow mowers and no mowers here too. We even have some that try to cover thier lawn with beer cans tossed from where they were consumed...... 8)
The reason we have such a mower is because we not only mow a big area here but the farm yards in Ks. and Ok.. Sometimes we get a little behind and with this mower, it doesn't take to long to catch up.

[EZ]

Our neighbors(what we see of them) mow like we do. When ever we get a chance. When we mow, we mow so close to the ground its almost like we used the rototiller, ;D then we only need to mow a couple times a month.
Are neighbors are like what Patty said. When we move here, are closes neighbors to us, we didnt no who they were or what they look like for two years. My wife and I went over one day and interduce are selfs. They invited us in and ask us if we wanted A cup of coffee. We were there for about 4 hours and drank A cup of coffee. When we were walking back home I told my wife, well I learned three things about are neighbors. One, when they ask you if you want A cup of coffee, thats all ya get, one. Second thing I learned about them is they smoke pot once in a while. The third thing I learned was it dont bother them if their little boy walks around with his moms underwear on top of his head in front of company. All and all they are pretty nice people.
EZ

[Patty]

Yea living in the Iowa boonies is great. We've lived out here for 15 years now and enjoy it emmensley. We had the pleasure of a little old lady who lived up on the corner. She was colorful. She wouldn't drink the store bought milk, so she milked her own goats. They served two purposes, they kept the grass down in her back yard and of course provided wonderful milk for her. One evening the goats got out and proceeded to climb up onto another neighbor's pickup; did quite a bit of damage really for a couple goats, but that is another story...This lady was so down to earth, she didn't drive, but you would see her around going for walks. One day it was very cold and windy and she was out walking, so I stopped and offered her a ride. She didn't recognize me, so I spent the next 10 minutes explaining to her just who I was and that I meant no harm to her, all the while she is looking at me very suspiciously through narrow slitted eyes. While talking to her, I couldn't help but notice she had an old bread sack wrapped around her head. Anyway, must I must have convinced her I was ok, as all of a sudden she smiled a big toothless grin and said, " no, I'm 80 years old and I don't need no ride, I walk to keep myself fit." She must have noticed me looking at her head, and said "The bread sack keeps the wind off my head, better than any scarf ever could."  She died shortly there after, but well, you know, she was right.
Now I haven't been wearing plastic bags on my head,( not yet anyway!), but what a practical lady! She didn't care what I or anybody else thought, she just did what worked for her. I admire that in a person.  

[slowzuki]

My girlfriend lives in a sub-division, and it is really a different type of experience.  There isn't really anything to do so people get obsessed with lawns and the such.

In the spring guys will be shoveling their front yard onto their driveways and the road so it will melt faster in the sun?

I can barely stay ahead of my chores and odd jobs while these guys have to make stuff up!  What they wouldn't give for a pile of wood to split or saw!

Ken

[SwampDonkey]

Hi All:

On the subject of exercise. I've noticed in recent years hardly a kid goes out side to play and if they do its not for long. I live is a rural area and when we were kids we were never in the house on nice days and in winter we always made bomb fires on pond ice and had skates. If not that we skied, snow shoed or used sleds in the snow all day and sometimes 11 or twelve at night. I still go snowshoing and walking regularly in winter and summer respectively. I rarely sea a sole outside other than on a sit down mower. I also have a sit down mower (17 year old Kabota diesel, best mower invented) too and alot of grounds to mow. But, I will sometimes haul out the push mower at the crack of dawn in summer before the mid day sun. Alot of people can't keep up with me in the woods, puffing and panting  ()   :D

Just something to talk about I guess, no harm intended for those folks that like to ride their machines with pride. Some of them ride too comfy   ;D  ;D

regards