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["SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:

> We do the same kinds of things with our '89 Jeep, drive it into the
> woods where we can and haul logs back down to the house to chainsaw
> and cut into firewood.

Yup, same here..but we are often limited as to where my truck can go.
It's not a 4WD, so it's use is limited.


> This is exactly what we've been doing.  Our oldest son has been
> begging for a riding lawn mower.  We tell him since he quit playing
> soccer, mowing the lawn the 'old-fashioned' way with a push mower is
> darn good exercise.  When he leaves home, or if he leaves home, that
> leaves son #2 who will be about the right age for his turn.
> Eventually, when it comes down to my husband and I again, maybe by
> then we'll have invested or upgraded to something that doesn't take
> all day, a sore back and sore wrists to work.

No more kids at home here, and even when I did have TJ here, we had a
garden tractor, so he had it made, relatively speaking.


> My Grandpa Van Meter had an old John Deere that worked great.  But my
> aunt, who has very little need for a tractor, took it back to her
> house in coastal flat-land NC after the farm was sold.  It occupies
> space in their garage.  I think they've used it twice in six years.

Ah! That's heartwrenching.

The only concern I have with something that is walk behind, like the DR,
is simply that...walking a 9 or 10 acre pasture would be exhausting and
take several days to mow.  It would be hard on my hips since the ground
is so rocky.
Oh well...back to work...

Bev



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Bevanron in NW Georgia          EarthNSky Farm  34.498N 85.076W
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