Hi folks,
I am thinking about buying a vintage ride on mower, as the romance is going out of cutting my 1/2 acre garden with my beefy petrol push mower. I like the idea of Vintage mower as it is something I can maintain myself and less generally goes wrong with the older stuff.
My concern is though - living in Ireland as I do, it gets wet, sometimes very wet and the grass doesn't stop growing. So sometimes the grass has to be cut under non ideal circumstance, it's wet and long, and there is a lot of it.
With my current mower this is a pretty miserable experience, the grass isn't picked into the grass box and clogs up the cutting deck every 2 or 3 minutes. I just usually slog through it, letting the mower pick up what it can and stopping ever 2 or 3 minutes to clear the cutting deck of balls of wet grass. Then going back over it with a rake to pick up what has been dropped. Great craic as you might imagine.
I am worried about what this will be like with a ride on mower - I have never had one, I am interested in hear people's experience. Will I be able to raise the deck to point where the grass will be picked up and then cut it incrementally ? or should I just mulch it somehow?
Would appreciate advice.
Ray K
I am thinking about buying a vintage ride on mower, as the romance is going out of cutting my 1/2 acre garden with my beefy petrol push mower. I like the idea of Vintage mower as it is something I can maintain myself and less generally goes wrong with the older stuff.
My concern is though - living in Ireland as I do, it gets wet, sometimes very wet and the grass doesn't stop growing. So sometimes the grass has to be cut under non ideal circumstance, it's wet and long, and there is a lot of it.
With my current mower this is a pretty miserable experience, the grass isn't picked into the grass box and clogs up the cutting deck every 2 or 3 minutes. I just usually slog through it, letting the mower pick up what it can and stopping ever 2 or 3 minutes to clear the cutting deck of balls of wet grass. Then going back over it with a rake to pick up what has been dropped. Great craic as you might imagine.
I am worried about what this will be like with a ride on mower - I have never had one, I am interested in hear people's experience. Will I be able to raise the deck to point where the grass will be picked up and then cut it incrementally ? or should I just mulch it somehow?
Would appreciate advice.
Ray K