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judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
Judith; you mean your barn is EMPTY?


Good heavens, no. It is now full of all the stuff from the lean-to.
Plus Paul the Cat Man's junk that I agreed to store for a "couple of months" two years ago.
But unfortunately I did Freecycle the spare mowers in a fit of organisation.

chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thank you! There's an electric flymo compact 300 on ebay for �30. I've just put in a bid. If that does't come to anything, I'll maybe PM you.

Judith: he does *know* you're moving, doesn't he?

judith



Joined: 16 Dec 2004
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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Chez wrote:
he does *know* you're moving, doesn't he?


Nope.

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    


Jb



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Location: 91� N
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 11:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

judith wrote:
I would go for electric for that size lawn - lighter and more manoeuvrable. Hover ones mulch up the grass and leave it lying around, which is fine if you mow regularly and frequently. Less so if you leave it for longer between mowings.
OTOH, if you have a box on the mower, you will need to empty it several times per mowing, which can be annoying. Depends whether you view grass clippings as a resource or not.

ETA Sadly, Rob's lawnmower collection is rather depleted now, or you could have taken one away with you!


I'd go with petrol. 1000 m2 is a fair size to mow and if you've got 50m cable runs around the place they'll just be a pain to manage. You could even try the local council tips, ours usually has a few spares and repairs type lawnmowers kicking around for resale.

judith



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Location: Montgomeryshire
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I've been there - I'm not 100% convinced Chez really means metres!

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It's what, a quarter of a football pitch at the quoted sizes.

I wouldn't want a flex behind me that long. it would weigh a ton, to start with.

marigold



Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Buy a decent petrol mower - it'll do the job quickly and you won't drive your neighbours mental listening to an inadequate electric mower drone for hours...

chez



Joined: 13 Aug 2006
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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

judith wrote:
I've been there - I'm not 100% convinced Chez really means metres!


I think I might have over-estimated - I based it on poultry-net lengths and I've just realised, it goes quite a long way round the edge as well as across the bottom. So, perhaps, 20m along one edge and 10 along the other might be more realistic.

dpack



Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sheep?

sorry

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm still picking the ticks of the cat from last month's 100-sheep ingress

dpack



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

maybe not sheep then

chez



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Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I am seriously considering Guinea Pigs

Cathryn



Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Guinea fowl. We didn't need to mow ours at all last year.

onemanband



Joined: 26 Dec 2010
Posts: 1473
Location: NCA90
PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 12 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Maybe it's 'a bloke thing' but self-propelled petrol is the way to go.
I have 60m2 of lawn out the back - I have an 18" self-propelled Webb for that.
Round the front I have 20m2 of rough grass and I have a ratty Suffolk Punch for that.
Noisier than electric but done in third of the time.
One day I will have a lawn big enough to justify a ride-on

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