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Originally Posted by Brother Strange
I have about seven or eight acres of grass to cut. What is not in the woods, the remaining acreage will be left for pasture. Thank God for a good bushhog and a diesel tractor.
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Where we lived at for five years before buying this house that is on a 1/2 acre lot I had 3 acres to mow. The first two years we lived there I mowed it with the little 12.5 HP Murray riding mower with a 40" cut. It was just too much for that size engine and at the end of the second summer the engine died.
I then went to Home Depot and got a twin cylinder large HP Murray mower (unbelievable deal for $1200) with a 42" cut. The cut wasn't that much wider but the twin cylinder engine was incredibly smooth compared to that little single cylinder one that used to vibrate me to death. I would have upgraded two years before has I realized the difference!
Then the last month I lived there my mower was in the shop and my neighbor had just bought a used zero turn mower with about a 60" cut. He offered to let me use it and it was a dream. What took me 5 hours to do with my mower took about 1 1/2 hours with that one! If I had stayed there I would have definitely tried to budget for one of those bad boys.