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JonB

Halcyon member
well, turns out the cedar logs were sold, and seller said they sold quickly for much higher than my offer...he said he just forgot to remove the 4 day old listing.
translation: I insulted him with my offer
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
meh,, he was just holding out for more money.
he woulda contacted you right quick if no one else threw some cash in the pot, and I bet he used your price to throw out another number to the next guy.
 

Missionary

Well-Known Member
Down here in Peru all prices are negotiable. We have learned that with our offer if they do not gasp we were to high I always shoot for 1/3 of the asking price and walk away at 1/2. Most the time they come scooting along with a sale in hand. But if not then we know that 1/2 price is a starting point for the next nearby vender.
 

popper

Well-Known Member
Haggling for price is the norm in other countries. Not here anymore, we lost the 'technique' someplace along the line. Guy showed me a chunk of acacia wood yesterday. Dang that stuff is hard and heavy. 20 50' 6"x8" 'poles' would need a pretty good 'truck' for hauling.
 

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
I think I’m going to sell my Kubota garden tractor/mower and buy a Ferris zero turn mower. Cut down my mowing time and it will be a better cut. Time is money.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
I do enjoy casting a small round bobber at any frog on a bank or lily pad when the fishing is slow or I need a frog for bass bait. Silly frogs grab on and will not let go.
As a 10 years old...I remember Fishing at Lake Lackawanna in Hakettstown NJ ....When we went to visit My Aunt who lives near a cove on that lake!
The Lake was drawn down because they were removing weeds!....Not sure if they used chemicals
I was fishing with floating lures and every time i thew the lure in ....ten frogs charged it....needless to say I would catch one on the hook and have to row back to shore for my Dad to remove the critter! At that age I was not going to touch a frog! Well 20 cast and 20 trips to shore and my dad had a bucket of frogs! which we took home and he introduced me to fried frog legs!....tasted just like chicken (that live on lilly pads)!
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
I think I’m going to sell my Kubota garden tractor/mower and buy a Ferris zero turn mower. Cut down my mowing time and it will be a better cut. Time is money.

Had a Husky riding mower, when it gave up the ghost I got a Snapper 54 inch zero turn. Cut mowing time from 2 1/2+ hours to under an hour with a far better cut and that's not to mention how much easier it is on me. This is starting the second year for the Snapper and so far I am more than pleased. Never again a riding mower for me, zero turn all the way.
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
If the sun reaches the dirt in Arkansas it grows something resembling lawn . I've .667 acres and 3000 sqft is under house and drive gravel the rest is covered in grass or bamboo .
Takes 3 + hr if we just get it and long leg it with a push mower about half that with a rider . We gave up for now and just pay the guy nextdoor to run his zero turn over it . 40 min maybe .
 

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Or buy a house with a heavily wooded lot where grass isn’t even a thing.
Our front yard can be done in 10 min with a walk behind.
I hate yard work so this is perfect for me.
 

L Ross

Well-Known Member
It's not the actual mowing I dislike so much, it is all of the trimming around objects that adds so much time. Then there is all the side hilling on our property. The yard takes 45 minutes with my wife on the 48" cut JD and me on the 54" cut JD. There is a small patch in front of the 80 yard berm, and an area I park the wagon to shoot the 350 and 440 yard rails that takes maybe 10 minutes with the 54". The .22 silhouette range takes me just over an hour if I mow it by myself.

None of this compares to the Summer before my freshman year of college. I worked at a sod farm from the time I was a junior in HS. The sod farm fields were typically mowed with a 7 gang reel mower and an Oliver 1650 with large steel drums for rear wheels and dual B-52 tires on the front that were discards from the K.I. Sawyer air base. Then we had a 5 gang reel mower pulled by a John Deere B also with steel drums all the way around. In 1973 we had a wet year and the big tractors would only spin so the boss bought a new Case lawn tractor with a 48" cut. He thought he was giving me a break and had me mowing instead of tossing sod rolls. It took 84 hours to mow 240 acres. Yup, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week from mid April until early August. The resulting clippings were raked into windrows by 5 or 6 kids and loaded onto the flat bed hay wagons we used to load sod rolls on and was subsequently dumped into ditches.
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
We have about 1.5 to 2 acres of grass to be mowed. A neighbor knocks that out in about 2 hours with a 60" Gravely zero-turn mower. I pay him $60.
I don't have to pay personal property taxes on a mower, buy extra gas cans or even think about the gas, oil changes, wheel replacements, deck repairs or trailering it to a repair shop.
If he ever becomes unable to do it, I may buy a mower. Right now, I have to stay within earshot of Mrs. smokeywolf, so if he couldn't do it, I'd have to hire someone else.
 

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
I think I’m going to sell my Kubota garden tractor/mower and buy a Ferris zero turn mower. Cut down my mowing time and it will be a better cut. Time is money.
We have 4 acres of mostly lawn with lots of obstacles ( Gardens , trees , shrubs etc.)
My son bought a Cub Cadet zero turn a few years ago at the end of the mowing season and got a sweet deal on that years model!
Cuts the property in 1/3 the time it used to take! You can cut fast also ( speed wise)
Mowing deck is amazing Tractor has the Kawasaki 27 HP twin cam
The only thing I don't like about it is Noise...Quite High pitch from the mower deck! Also it can throw a stone dangerously far!
I bought him a Mulching door Mechanism for when he cuts by the houses or people! That was another good purchase
 

smokeywolf

Well-Known Member
I think if they expect me to pay $13,000 (tax, license, dealer prep and options) for a mower, I would expect a lifetime warranty covering any and all repair expenses, except those stemming from obvious abuse or neglect.
 

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
I’ve got 2 acres of grass with lots of obstacles and side hills. 5 hours with a 42” and a honda push mower then trimming.
But if I had to pay $13 thousand they would need to do the job included in the deal. I’d buy goats first
 

Rick

Moderator
Staff member
I think if they expect me to pay $13,000 (tax, license, dealer prep and options) for a mower, I would expect a lifetime warranty covering any and all repair expenses, except those stemming from obvious abuse or neglect.

:headscratch: Do you really think you need a mower like that? Very few mowing lawns for a living have a $13,000 mower, that would be overkill in the extreme I think. I bought the Snapper for $3,500 out the door. Only thing I added later was the mulch kit. Snapper has a solid reputation and so far I've been more than pleased with it. Something similar would be plenty of mower for what you have to mow and you wouldn't be underserved at all. Would sure hate to see you spend that kind of money when it's just not needed.