One thing that many full-time RVers brag about is that they no longer need to mow a lawn. Those were the olden days, they will tell you, when they lived in a traditional home, with a front lawn and a back lawn, both of which needed mowing every week or so.
When they went full-time they sold off many, if not most, of their belongings including their trusty, well-used lawnmower. They would not be needing that again out there on the road. The RV park could take care of that duty.
Well … maybe you’re not a full-timer, but live in a condo or apartment. Whatever the case, how long has it been since you mowed a lawn? That’s our reader poll for today. Be sure to leave a comment if you’ve got the urge to write.
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We have a lawn but hire out all maintenance including mowing.
Yesterday. Have a Cub Cadet fully electric riding mower. It’s fast and efficient. I actually enjoy cutting the lawn with it. Has cut my cutting time by about 40%. No finicky gas engine, just get on it and go.
I mowed a lawn yesterday. I volunteer at a Humane Society. Always some yard work to do even at 106 degrees
I mowed my lawn yesterday with my 30 year old john deere model 425 tractor, it runs like the day I bought it, the year 1993. I enjoy mowing grass, it is very relaxing.
Yesterday after replacing the deck belt.
On my 22 year old John Deere.
Two weeks ago. I don’t know anyone who mows every week. Not even the lawn care services up here on the east coast. They’re every two weeks. Today is mow day.
On a normal rainy summer here in cent fla, I sometime mow twice a week. But have a low to the ground dog.
Back yard every Tuesday (wife), front yard Wednesday (me), weed eat the creek banks Thursday and Friday (both of us). We use the yard tractor, push mower, and two different string trimmers.
I have a love hate relationship with the lawn. I like driving my JD-445 bought in 94, but I have an allergy to the dust kicked up by the mower deck so I cut the yard about once a month. It was cut the last week in July and I am hoping when we get back home the end of August I will be able to let it go until next year. If not, it will be hacked down in September before we take our last trip for out 54th anniversary in October.
I have to wear a mask when I mow because I’m allergic to everything from tree pollen, rag weed, to freshly cut grass.
“You know you’re from New Mexico when you think 100 tons of crushed rock make a beautiful yard” applies to us. I have a mower, but only use it to cut down large weeds outside our fenced area maybe once each year.
Not a full-time camper, so I mow the lawn on Friday, unless it’s raining. If I have travel plans, then it’s the day before I leave and the day after I get home. After 2 weeks, it looks like a wheat field.
…unless the grass and/or weeds are dormant from drought or cold.
For what it’s worth, there is a difference between a natural pasture landscape and an unkempt lawn. The first can be very pretty, but the second just screams ‘lazy owner’.
It’s been 15 yrs since I mowed my own lawn. We moved into a townhouse when I retired and the front lawn mowing is paid for with our HOA dues and we don’t have any grass in the back.
I snowbird during the winter and don’t return to the Garden State until the middle of April. Then I’m gone for weeks at a time during the summer months, camping and travelling.
So I hired a local guy to take care of the lawn for forty bucks every two weeks.
I don’t have to worry about it and the neighbors don’t complain.
I don’t mow our lawn but our gardener does once a week.
I ruptured my quadricep tendon over five years ago. With the surgery and rehab, the recovery time was about seven months. I had to hire someone to do the yard work. I had intended to go back doing it after my recovery, but the person I hired was doing such a great job that my wife would not let me fire him. He’s still doing a great job at a very reasonable price.
As a campground host, one of my summer duties is mowing our grass. It’s my favorite job. I find mowing very zen.
At our home it’s been 15 or more years, at in-laws last week.
The majority of RVers are not full-timers so that increases the likelihood of needing to mow. I also believe that most RV owners don’t live in a condo or apartment because of not having a place to park to load/unload when using it. This leaves those who hire a lawn care service, have a friend or family member do it, or mow their own. I feel safe saying that most mow their own grass. We have someone who mows when we’re gone but otherwise we mow it ourselves. I actually find it a bit therapeutic mowing.
This could morph into who’s running the oldest mower. I have 48 year old Cub Cadet model 1450, all original and still working good. Original MSRP in 1975 was $1585. A lot of money back then.
Wow! I tho’t I was doing good with my Cub Cadet Garden tractor (1250). It was built in Jan. 1990. Has a Kohler 18 hp (20 hp). Runs like a top yet altho the plastic panels are getting a bit loose. Doesn’t burn oil either. The deck wheels are gone, but it has the hydraulic lift so don’t really need them anyway and the yard is flat mostly. Also, It is is used year around with the snow blower in ND! Great machines from MTD!
Where we live, it is cheaper to have landscapers than it is to have and maintain the equipment needed to do ourselves. Not to mention the extra space you can from not needing the stuff.
My first job, before I was a teenager, was mowing lawns and weeding gardens. About 50 years later when I retired, so did the current mower which is still housed in a storage building in the back yard. Happily, I now support local lawn service and landscapers!
Even in the “olden days” when I had sticks ‘n’ bricks, I never had to mow my lawn. I was always fortunate to have neighbor boys to do it — with their own mowers. At only one RV park where I lived for several years was I responsible for my lawn care; and the grandson of one of my neighbors there did it for me.
I have a lawn service mow my lawn, there was no option for that
Been about a month and a half, drought and burn ban restrictions have kept us from mowing. Our excellent crop of dandelions are beautiful, though, and have kept the bees and deer happy.
My allergies are too bad to mow the lawn. I used to and enjoyed putting music on and getting lost in the art of mowing great lines
One more option should have been yesterday.
After three weeks in Oregon, it took me the better part of three hours to mow my lawn.
My lawnmower choked up at every pass.
It is mowed now and watered and looks like my lawn again.
No more long motorhome trip until next July back to Oregon Coast again.
Raise the deck or wheels and don’t try to cut it all at once. I thought everyone knew that.
If growing like that I wonder why he waters it.
I’m a fulltimer and work camp in the summers . This year I’m outdoors so it was just a couple of days ago that I mowed . Before this season it had been 3 years .
(Actually, it’s been 40+ years—my DH does the job! It takes him about 7 minutes.)
I chose “within the last week,” but it actually was about an hour ago. Our farm has about 5 acres of “improved” land that we mow weekly. The string-trimming happens less often, but I try to do all of it at least once a month.
Mowed half the yard 2 days ago and maybe the other half tonight if the 99 deg temp and feels like over 115 deg drops a bit. The low last night was in mid 80s. (I do believe it is WARM well really kinda HOT)
Last time I mowed was in a military RV park where the camp hosts had mowers available to mow your own site when needed. The landscape service did the grounds and empty sites regularly, but couldn’t mow near your RV or the other stuff on your site.
It’s usually why I’m late reading the Saturday editions!!
I live in the arid southwest, so made the decision to not waste precious water on grass. I converted my front and back yards to desert landscape ( decomposed granite, rocks and yard ornaments) so there is no grass to mow. Last time was over 7 years ago.