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Old 19-05-2003, 06:08 PM
Timothy
 
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Default Mowing wet grass?

On Mon, 19 May 2003 08:34:03 -0700, Charles Woolever wrote:

A little more on the thread as people are now mowing weekly here.

Someone said earlier that the larger riding mowers could mow the wet grass
so easily because they were so powerful. If that is the case, they why
can't they handle a yard that has been skipped a week?

Secondly, last week was pretty much rain all week here. Residents didn't
mow during the rain. Businesses with lawn care were mowed. Now, those
powerful riding mowers apparently cut the grass but the dandelion stems
seemed to have been too slippery. By the end of the day they were mowed,
the stems were standing up proud and tall above the now lower grass. That
really looks bad. On a dry day everything is cut.


Just because the mower is powerful doesn't mean that it can harvest twice
as much grass. Wet grass is heavy but the volume of the grass
didn't double when wet. As far as the dandys go... they tend to lower
their heads when wet. The mowers got the heads but not the heavier,
thicker stems.

Let's say just for giggles that your a business owner with a showcase lawn
out front of it. Would you rather have a few stems poking up or would you
rather have your customers look at long grass? What are the lawn companies
to do if it rains on your mow day twice? Let it go for 3 weeks...?

Now let's say you own a lawn service with 100 mowing accounts. That's 20 a
day. Would you skip a rain day? How would you catch back up with 20 extra
mows to do? Are you working saturday instead? What about the workers you
employ? Are you going to send them home on a rain day? How are you to keep
good workers if you can keep them working everyday?

Granted, mowing in the rain is not ideal but when your talking about
business contracts or talking about keeping your lawn compainy alive,
mowing in the rain must be done. If I don't mow in the rain, my customers
are unhappy looking at a shagy lawn and I'm fired. They look for someone
else who will mow it every monday... rain or shine. And besides, up here
in washington state..... When is it ever NoT raining?