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    Exactly what i was thinking! I mow a regular lawn that takes 1.5 hours, fortnightly mow in summer, kikuyu, and I might get 6 chaff bags. Honda 3rd gear, edges all double cut, same method as you Happy with two blows etc.

    4 cubic metres of grass caught, walked and emptied into trailer etc etc is a friggin shedload of grass believe me. Do you have pics?

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    @courty yes sir !! not compacted down, loose like.

    i use giant crane bags split in half, they are about 1.2m X 1.2 m, so filling one 50 cm gives you .75 cubes (or 3 wheelie bins) - again not compacted. and i got 6 of them, but a couple werent as full as the others.

    i put 2 bags in the back yard 2 in the front yard and 2 in the trailer parked out front, then wherever i am when the catchers full i can just dump out and keep going, and the long drive was downhill to the car, so i could just tow the "full ones" down the cement drive to the trailer.

    easy peasy.

    only had to go about 10 metres in some sections to get a catcher full - i find its the handling of the grass that takes the time eg if i walked the clippings catcher by catcher out to the trailer, id still be there, lol.

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    nah paul, cbf taking pics of lawns, whats the point?

    see my point about "walked to the trailer with the clippings?" - if you do that each catcher youre moving clippings more than youre mowing.

    have a system where you cut down the travel and you'll knock 30 mins off that job youre talking about.

    it WAS a bit of a roughie, it was for a tenant exiting and he just didnt care, so i only single cut the edges, and blew once at the end.

    he'd actually done a run around the fences with his mower and whippy at some point recently then gotten tired of it, but i still mowed the edge then snipped it first.


    "give the customer what HE wants/expects" - anything extra is wasted time and money.


    customer was well pleased

    cheers !!

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    oh, and paul, the rover is quicker than a honda in 3rd gear, and cuts a full catcher each time, without using the stick to clear the chute - so maybe its 30 to 50% faster than using the honda - on the lawn i was doing if i used MY honda, it may have taken 2 to 2 1/2 hours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by happymowin View Post
    oh, and paul, the rover is quicker than a honda in 3rd gear, and cuts a full catcher each time, without using the stick to clear the chute - so maybe its 30 to 50% faster than using the honda - on the lawn i was doing if i used MY honda, it may have taken 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
    Lol Now that's a funny post

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    have you used a rover, greenie?

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    Quote Originally Posted by happymowin View Post
    have you used a rover, greenie?
    YES MATE!! i have 2!!

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    Don't worry mate. I'm definitely packing my Honda catcher chock-a-block. Sharp blades, 4 hi-lift flutes, the revs are way up and I'm walking as fast as my hips can handle

    I've got one of those bags you mention, ex horse feed bag from local stables. They're huge but way too much for me to manhandle. Chaff bags still for me, 3 or 4 catchers into them then drag two at a time to the trailer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greenie View Post
    Lol Now that's a funny post



    dunno what youre trying to say there then mate. oh well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by happymowin View Post


    dunno what youre trying to say there then mate. oh well.
    LOL "Lol Now that's a funny post" is that a post that is hard to understand??
    Here i say agian MATE
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    Hey Greenie thats a funny post
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    nah paul, cbf taking pics of lawns, whats the point?
    So people believe you I think is the general conception
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    An oldie but from memory this was about 3 cubes of grass











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    3 cubes looks more like a slash with the victa 600 a couple of times then a catch mow with the 197 and about 6 chaff bags
    Anything Ian says may or may not be garbage, it may also be his own opinion or it may not be his opinion at all, it may just be something he felt like stating anyone following his advice does so at their own risk and may be doing something Ian would actually advise against.
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    Yep cant beat a few pictures to tell the story..

    Good one courty
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