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Riding mower!
LazyBkpr:
Used to be we had ONE riding mower.. but I got blamed for how beat up it was.. I was allowed permission to unwrap the hoses, dog chains, tarps, fence, and other miscellaneous items out of the blades quite often...
Then it dawned on me I was doing this ALL wrong..
So I got a pretty decent Cub Cadet mower. I cleaned it up, put new bearings and blades in the deck. waxed it, made sure the lights worked etc.. NICE riding mower, and I presented it to her, saying I would keep the old one and use it... THAT gained me some points, until I said if you run over anything.. YOU have to fix it!!!
I took the old 125 JD apart.. it had long since lost the plastic hood """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" was the angry reply when I asked... the blade spindles were both bent, """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" the fenders were ALL scarred up, """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" the stearing wheel was loose and the st. wheel plastic was busted in two places..... """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!"""
So I found a decent older 300 John Deere.. put new bearings and blades in the deck, new belts, a new tire etc.... repainted a couple spots and waxed it all up... So we had TWO NICE lawn mowers... I'll get a picture when i go out to do chores for yall...
The CUB is falling APART. She mows at JUST under Mach 1... There isnt an INCH that isnt scratched up. """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" The headlights are knocked out of it, """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" and The Deck is BENT, """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" the hood and cowl are bent and busted... """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!""" It leaves streaks in the grass because the blades are bent, or the hub spindles are bent... """I DIDNT HIT ANYTHING!!!!"""
The 300JD?? It still runs and mows and looks great.. Headlights still work too! TWO mowers was one of the best ideas I ever had!!!
FORTUNATELY.. the 300 has a safety start in the gear shift/speed selector lever.. you have to push it over to make it start... TWICE I have caught her trying to start MY mower!!!! :shock: HEY!! Is that your mower?
"Your NOT the boss of me!!!" (my daughters favorite saying to her brother when they were about six)
Of course... its my fault that garden hose was still laying there after she watered the garden.. and the Horse trailer needs MOVED!!! It shoudn't be parked there! Same with the two flatbed trailers, and the hitching posts for the horses.. and the old plow truck.. OH!! AND THE BARN!!!!! The DEER knocked that fence down.. YOU should have fixed it before I mowed!! Always my fault.. But I am OK with that, while I ride about on my nice mower......... :lol: 8-)
They are dusty from sitting in the shed I usually wash and WAX mine ;
G3farms:
:lol: :lol: I can totally relate to this. My wife loves to run over everything.......uh I mean mow the yard. Ours is not quite that bad but working on it.
When the kids were little I always mowed the yard, at least twice a year, sometimes I just baled hay out of the yard. Had the kids swing set in the yard and I would push the swings out of the way and mow under it without stopping. The wife wanted to mow one day and thought she would do the same thing, except for some reason wanted to let the swing catch her under the chin, not wanting to be pulled off backwards she developed a death grip on the steering wheel and pulled the swing set over on top of her and the mower. Needless to say that was my fault and the swing set had to go shortly after that.
You should have seen one day she bent a blade about double and was plowing up the yard, :shock: never looks back for some reason.
I don't complain...........too much.........at least I don't have to mow the yard. :lol:
Perry:
Reminds me of the new driveway we had built a year ago. In order to level out the area for a double wide driveway and provide a level spot for my honey shack, we had a rock wall built. We brought in some pit-run gravel and had it nicely leveled off. The very first time my wife jumped in my truck, she drove forward but didn't angle enough to clear the rock wall, and promptly drove off the end of it, dropping about a good foot at least.
Once the truck stopped bouncing, :lol: all I could see (I was standing behind her when she left) was her looking in the side view mirror to see if I had witnessed it. How could I not??
We don't speak of this in my house! ;)
LazyBkpr:
LOL!!! Well described G.. I could SEE it as it happened!!! Still laughing....
Ohhhh no Perry!! ... dont bring those things up unless you want to PAY dearly...
"I hit a steel pipe."
"Why?"
"Because it stuck out of the ground?"
"No... why did you hit it?"
"I didnt know it was there!"
"The tall grass around it didnt clue you in?"
"NO!!! THATS why I was mowing it!
sigh......
LazyBkpr:
hehe, so anyhow.. I told her when I cant fix the CUB anymore I'd get her something with TRACKS and a mower deck.. That might endanger our HOUSE though...
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