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[mark rousseau <markrousseau AT yahoo.com>]

Not sure if this was mentioned but Could renting a
walk behind mower for a weekend work? 
 This would let you know real fast if the walkbehind 
solution would work.  

-mark

--- SISU! <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Bevanron in NW Georgia                EarthNSky Farm  34.498N
> 85.076W
> SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English
> that encompasses
> all that sisu means, but it combines the following
> ideas: guts, pep,
> determination, stubbornness, perseverance,
> hardiness, stamina, go, do,
> nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit.  It's like "Just Do
> It!" & "Go for It!")
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> 
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