Addicted to grass, which mower type ?

[First_Principal]

Originally Posted by piperboy84

Thanks for all the view points the new McConnell Rhino 9 got delivered this morning and I put it to work inspite of it pissing of rain last night it can handle the tough stuff. I looked at the Teagle also with the 9 foot cut but it was 400Kg lighter so I assume this one is more of a heavy duty machine

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Cool, aerial photo showing the nice parallel stripes?

[piperboy84]

As soon as the wings are back on I'll get an aerial shot but I suspect the cut will be be as straight as a dogs piss in the snow.

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[cats_five]

Originally Posted by piperboy84

As soon as the wings are back on I'll get an aerial shot but I suspect the cut will be be as straight as a dogs piss in the snow.

It is really hard to keep completely straight, and it's also easy to accidentally leave 'mohicans' where adjacent cuts didn't overlap. We mow our field in different directions - up & down, and on the slant - to avoid this.

It will have a baptism of fire, after the warmth and now the rain the grass is growing about as fast as it can.

I imagine your strip will now be very visible from the air, wonder if you will ever have a glider pay you a visit?

[piperboy84]

I imagine your strip will now be very visible from the air, wonder if you will ever have a glider pay you a visit?

Everybody's welcome, including gliders as long as you can pull 'er up in 500 meters, we get all sorts in here including war-birds, Gyros, weightshifters, the Scottish air ambulance chopper and even some daft bastard in a para thingy where you hang under a canopy and run like buggery with a fan on your back to take off. I'd like to think the visits are a result of my strip maintenance but I suspect it's entirely down to the fine ladies in the coffee shops excellent baking, lunch specials and monster breakfasts with all the fixings.

This link shows a fine example of their efforts:

Tea Room | Murton Trust

[cats_five]

Originally Posted by piperboy84

Everybody's welcome, including gliders as long as you can pull 'er up in 500 meters...

There would be something seriously wrong to need that much. At the SGC gliders often land diagonally across the north field so as to land into wind. That strip is 200m wide, not all the width is used.