Zero Turn Riders
When it comes to having a bit garden I am all for it. I remember in my childhood of having a large field where I would go out and play on the large lawn. It was not clear to me that it also took a lot of work and my father used his ride on mower almost twice a week to maintain the lawn in that good of a condition. He was indeed a lawn care fanatic and it was actually something he enjoyed instead of something that he considered as a chore. Especially after he bough his new zero turn rider which had him speeding around and around even when there was no lawn to be mowed.
When it comes to his ride on mower and the good condition of the blades he was very worried. The maintenance was usually something that was more important than coming inside the house for the dinner in time. It was not unusual for him to be sharpening the blades and scraping the bottom of the zero turn ride mower to remove all the excess grass that had not been properly handled by the grass outlet system. There was this propeller that would create nearly a vacuum under the mower so that the grass you are mowing would stand up straight and when mowed it would be sucked out from around the blades. That way the blades are not needed to be cleaned so often and you can concentrate on doing what you are meant to be doing.
The best thing when it came to the new zero turn rider was not actually the non existant turn radius of the mower but the speed that it was able to achieve. No way a ride on mower is intended to be used for speeding around your farm but for us is was quite a lot of fun driving around the lawn while going almost double the speed that the previous ride on mower was able to achieve. The previous model that we had was a Honda ride mower but this newer one was Briggs & Stratton lawnmower and is had to be one of the best I had ever sat on.
After a while it seemed like we did not get any more fun out of that huge lawn and it became expensive to maintain. The actual global warming lead to the point where we had to be watering the lawn so that it would not butn. This was very expensive since there is a lot of space there and usually we hade to use the tractor mower to drive around and pull a water tank in the behind so that we were able to spread the water all around the garden. The worst part about this is that it became expensive and we had to be doing it almost daily during the hot summers in Texas. We had to give up on the lawn and not long time after we sold that house and moved to a smaller one which was near the city.
This was in my opinion the best decision we had ever made. That god that our new ride on mower was a zero turn rider because this time our garden was smaller. There were some tight spots where we had to be able to manouver to be able to mow lawn. Tractor mowers were not able to do this so we had the real thing for the job. I am much more of a garden person anyways and not that much in to a huge lawn, even if it is fun to speed around in a good mower.
Besides of just having good memories about the ZTR and ROM I think that the best part of my childhood must have been the garden in out newer house. It made sure that the blades of the new mowers were frequently renewed since there were a lot of nice cornerstones. That made every one of us spend more time in the garden and maintaining our ride on mower to keep it in perfect shape.