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Originally Posted by Leo.G
Your priority has to be safety first Joe. I guess either of you don't have a large enough property to have your own yard tractor with a slasher bigger than an average ride on?
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Hi Leo,
I have a 44 inch zero turn ride on. It's a Gravely ZT44. A small rugged zero turn professional model, all welded cutting deck, no rolled sheet metal, 14km/hr. 44 inch was the widest cutting deck that I could buy that would fit through all the gaps and give me access to the whole yard.
My property is 3000 sq m and the outside street is another 3000 sq. If I do the whole thing inside and out on my own it takes 2hrs 15m and 6L of unleaded petrol. My yard is landscaped so that I can cut all the grass with the ride on. I don't own or have to use a hand mower to tidy up. The street verges are made up of 120m long strips so I can wind the mower up to full 14km/hr speed and get through it pretty quick.
You probably know that the grass doesn't grow through the winter unless we get a lot of rain. Grows fast in spring but once the spring rains stop, doesn't grow much in summer unless we get rain. So I only mow weekly in spring, once every 2-4 weeks in summer and autumn and not at all from May to August unless we get a warm wet winter(eg 2022).
cheers
Joe