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How Many Lawns do you mow?

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PeteyG
Posts: 2946 - Karma: 49
Since summer is comin i thought id ask.
And whats the biggest lawn or funniest lawn mowing story.
May 18 2007 12:35AM
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PeteyG
Posts: 2946 - Karma: 49
am i the only one on here who mows lawns to make money?
May 18 2007 1:29AM
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unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
i mow my lawn and get like 20 bucks?
May 18 2007 1:46AM
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clrumivier4life
Posts: 2429 - Karma: 9
My grandparents give me anywhere from 35-50 bucks to mow their backyard (less than half an acre on a riding mower).  It's awesome.
May 18 2007 1:53AM
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ride-rider
Posts: 1761 - Karma: 20
haha same except its a push mower and an acre for me. but it still only takes me like an hour and a half and i get 30, i allso do my lawn for 20
May 18 2007 2:40AM
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~skiblader~
Posts: 26 - Karma: 10
I've never done a lot of odd jobs to earn money... and my brother mows the lawn... so I don't have to mow at all.
May 18 2007 2:48AM
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R.Fahey
Posts: 8602 - Karma: 539
My summer job for the last 4 years has been maintenance at our ski area, which consists of doing the most horrid jobs you can think of to prepare for the season, such as re-running new electric to all the snowguns and shit..... I'm on the Mowing Crew so my job is pretty much to just cut grass.... There's all the shit around the ski area that needs to be cut, then like 5 HUGE yards that belong to the owner. I'd say the largest we cut is about 9 10 acres altogether. It's a bitch and there's a pond that claims mowers.
May 18 2007 4:09AM
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R.Fahey
Posts: 8602 - Karma: 539
Ohhh, and why i'm posting at 4 in the morning??? Because work kicked my ass yesterday and I fell asleep at 6 pm, and just woke up..... I don't think I can sleep anymore. And we mow on Kubota Zero Turn Radius dank mowers.
May 18 2007 4:10AM
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Von
Posts: 4869 - Karma: 21
you never mow..... ewww it must be fuckin hairy down there
May 18 2007 5:15AM
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bangarangmules
Posts: 5065 - Karma: 84
one time i was mowing with a pushmower and i mowed over and underground bee's nest, and they got pissed off and flew up my pants. about 20 stings later i had my pants off and was running screaming to the saftey of my home..
May 18 2007 7:32AM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
i cut 3 other yards not including mine.
May 18 2007 8:06AM
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Bardolph
Posts: 719 - Karma: 11
I have a huge lawn and i have to mow it for nothing but then i mow my grandparents lawn and i get like 20 bucks and its on a john deere
May 18 2007 8:12AM
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Mr_Papageorgio
Posts: 1271 - Karma: 117
9 of em..6 starters, 2 kickers...and a backup
May 18 2007 8:14AM
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leckett1
Posts: 6476 - Karma: 294
just mine
May 18 2007 9:16AM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
the only lawn i mow is your moms...sorry had to do it
May 18 2007 9:52AM
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leckett1
Posts: 6476 - Karma: 294
too bad she doesnt let you play with it
May 18 2007 10:36AM
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freeskiin1080
Posts: 129 - Karma: 10
well i was working for a grass cutting service (MY BRO) and he turned around in this guys driveway we went like 5 feet on his property and he started flipping on him my bro didnt say anythis back i would of fucked his day UP
May 18 2007 1:00PM
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GnarBurger
Posts: 3215 - Karma: 43
i have three disabled people for neighbors. one pays me 60 the other pays me 75 and the other pays me 50
May 18 2007 1:46PM
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The_Oakley_Kid
Posts: 3128 - Karma: 179
DAMN SON, thats a sick tractor. personally I used to use the JD 5000 series. I used to mow at a golf course, so yeah, its was a shit load of grass...
May 18 2007 2:05PM
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PeteyG
Posts: 2946 - Karma: 49
that was un called for

gettin into her personal life n all
May 18 2007 8:41PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
May 18 2007 8:52PM
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invisman
Posts: 736 - Karma: 60
This one time I was mowing someone's lawn and I came upon a dead fox.  I forgot to tell the owner about it and they apparently never saw it, because the next time I mowed it was a just a skeleton.  I was kind of traumatized.
May 18 2007 9:22PM
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Fish_Sandwich.
Posts: 9108 - Karma: 16
I mow your moms bush
May 18 2007 9:25PM
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invader7
Posts: 5756 - Karma: 49
what is up with all of these blank post

i mow two including mine
May 18 2007 11:38PM
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cofreeskier
Posts: 3189 - Karma: 15
This summer ill mow 5 or 6 i think including mine for about $30 apiece (theyre pretty small yards), im just starting this summer
May 18 2007 11:42PM
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killabees
Posts: 8558 - Karma: 494
well i pmed mine
May 18 2007 11:45PM
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Gez
Posts: 294 - Karma: 10
I work for a lawn mowing company here in town, and we mow a shit ton of lawns....like, we probably mow 200 or so properties a week between 3 or 4 trucks...half houses, some businesses here and there, some huge ranching properties here and there. We run 36 and 48" Scag zero turns and we also have a 72" Scag turf tiger for one of our enormous lawns....
May 18 2007 11:58PM
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hylandrox
Posts: 558 - Karma: 15
i'm doing 8-10 yards at 50-70 a cut. I use a toro zero turn with 62" deck so its goes pretty fast all the yards are 2+ acres.
May 19 2007 12:06AM
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ButteredToast.
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i mow my old neighbors tiny ass lawn for $30.

    Not really funny, but one time I mowed over an underground rabbit nest accidentally so a bunch of baby bunnies jumped out of the hole and into the blade. Two of them were hopping around with half a head and their brains dragging behind them on the ground. The other three and the big mother were cut right in half. It was by far the most gruesome thing I had ever seen in person. I was kinda traumatized for about month. Oh yeah, and I got rabbit blood all over my feet, legs, and face.
May 19 2007 12:12AM
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Piste.Off
Posts: 11586 - Karma: 1,861
do mine for free then half my neighboorhood for 15 bucks each. i make about 300-400 this summer
May 19 2007 12:37AM
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ValPow
Posts: 1049 - Karma: 10
i spend all my summers on the harvest, driving the combines and then ploughing. I get 5 grand (pounds) in 3 months, sorts me out for most of uni.

I you are after driving some serious kit then that is where its out, especially in america and australia
May 19 2007 6:02PM
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mariob
Posts: 1036 - Karma: 36
my family owns a landscaping company so i have been cutting lawns over the summer since i was 8 or 9
May 19 2007 6:21PM
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BFFset.
Posts: 2210 - Karma: 12
i do three lawns, my moms house, my dad's house, and my mom's old house that we rent out. i get paid 5.15 an hour which is shitty but oh well
May 19 2007 6:21PM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
I mow two, get $60 for one and $25 for the other
May 19 2007 6:29PM
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1440ski
Posts: 2049 - Karma: 1,110
I mow 10 and they range from 25 to 65.
May 19 2007 6:31PM
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eheath
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Zero.
May 19 2007 6:42PM
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.jon
Posts: 2121 - Karma: 345
i mow 5 for $25-30
May 19 2007 9:42PM
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SteezePatrol
Posts: 10281 - Karma: 36
the other day i mowed this old ladies lawn.

I cut down one of her two massive tulips in her flower bed.

I did not tell her.

I took the 20 bucks and ran

I usually make 15 bucks for abouuuuut 45 mins of work
May 19 2007 9:43PM
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BSI
Posts: 646 - Karma: 38
None, I pay one of you bitches to do it for me.
May 19 2007 9:51PM
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miroz
Posts: 10333 - Karma: 3,947
:)
May 19 2007 9:59PM
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potato_man
Posts: 2158 - Karma: 89
our new house doesnt even have a lawn.our old one did,and it was like 15 for front half acre and back acre
May 21 2007 8:07PM
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Jake...
Posts: 11976 - Karma: 296
i work for my buddies company and we mow and scape 3+2+4+1 so 10 lawns a week.

not to many stories its not exactly the most interesting fields of work you can get into. Im just doing it for extra cashhh
May 21 2007 8:12PM
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MitchPee
Posts: 8871 - Karma: 1,510
I landscaped last summer and this summer.

So I worked with crackheads (literally), and one of them really pissed me off a lot. He was annoying, retarded, and smoked crack.

So one day he's attempting to make fun of me and I just pointed out the fact that the only teeth he had were black and yellow. He then proceeded to mumble something, but because he has developed a speech impedement from all the crack smoking, he didn't get any words out. So he goes off to mow and doesn't see there's a bees nest in the way. He runs right over the bees nest and instantly is covered in bees. He falls onto the ground and starts rolling around and curling up in a ball. After I was done laughing hysterically and he ran away far enough I went over to see the damage and he got stung like 30 times. Fucking crackhead.

Another time he was being his crackhead self and he pissed me off. I don't know how many of you have ever used a weed whacker, but when you hit dogshit at the right angle...it flies far. He was on a mower and I was weed whacking and I waited til he got really close. When he did I stuck the weed whacker right in the dog shit and it flew all over him.

Moral of the stories...don't be a crackhead.
May 21 2007 8:25PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
last year i had like 8, this year i only have 2. this one lawn i do is pretty big, buy they have hugeee dogs and i have to pick up their dog shit first, and i only get $20. thats one of the ones i got fired from though. it was a really shitty job so im kinda glad.




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May 21 2007 8:26PM
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Mat.
Posts: 7167 - Karma: 94
I mow no lawns.
May 21 2007 8:52PM
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PeteyG
Posts: 2946 - Karma: 49
anyone ever cut off a sprinkler head? omg its so imbarrassing especially when u dont tell them and they figure it out on their own then like get all mad at u
May 27 2007 10:07PM
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BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
I once mowed a neighbors personal 9 hole golfcourse and all I got was $2, it took me like 6 hours and 2 tanks of gas.
May 27 2007 10:09PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
times the word crack/crackhead used:6
May 27 2007 10:14PM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186

well my family owns a farm so we got a big john deere tractor and it kicks ass.. takes like 4 hours to finish the whole field, good money though..and for local lawns my dad has a ferris walk behind which is fucking huge

May 27 2007 10:48PM
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slaydave
Posts: 1697 - Karma: 62
none, i live in an apartment... it rules...
May 27 2007 10:53PM
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grams.
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i would go crazy in an apartment
May 27 2007 10:54PM
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