Seven Miles of Lawn

Most of my life I have lived in modest bungalows with modest little lawns.

Postage stamp-sized lawns that you can cut with an old-school reel lawn mower.

Done and over within a matter of about an hour. Tops.

Here my house is still modest yet I have way too much lawn.

Lawn around the house. Lawn around the machine shed. Lawn around the granary. Lawn over the grave of the old house foundation where the Council Ring is situated. And a very vigorous lawn on the septic mound.

With the recent rains and the warming weather my very non-native lawn has been greening-up and begging to be trimmed.

I take that back. It has been demanding to be cut.

Under normal circumstances I would use the self-propelled, walk-behind, Toro mower (with small cutting radius) to cut the lawn around the trees, buildings and other borders.

This would be followed by finishing the job with one or both of a gasoline-powered Bush Hog (36-inch cut) towed behind the ATV or a PTO-driven Rhino mower (60-inch cut) hitched to the tractor.

Since it was a nice day - sunny but cool - I thought I would cut the entire yard with just the ordinary Toro. The way I figured it - I could use an invigorating walk and I didn't have much else on my chore list anyway.

Besides, I wanted to know how much distance would be covered in this endeavor.



Lest you doubt the precision accuracy of this elaborate instrument of quality Chinese manufacture it says in the Operating Instructions: False mounting or walking away will possibly cause inaccurate result. Ensure your walking method is right.