Managed to get my grass cut at last, it's last cut was sept 2011, I
started last July but the cutter bar broke, and by the time it was fixed
the monsoon season had started. Now I have to pick it up before the
rains hit.
Yesterday I saw the first Brimstone butterfly of the year, and today out
the field there was a dandy lion, buttercup, daisy chickweed and mouse
eared chickweed all in flower.
Could this be Spring testing the water?
Lastly, a couple of years ago I bought a 6.5Hp Tiller/Rotovator With
Forward and Reverse Drive. on Ebay, the idea was to use it for
rotovating the paths between the dahlia beds, well it got around 18
hours work the first year, last year it got about 2 hours, last was in Sept.
This afternoon I thought I'd knock the cobwebs out of it, it started 4th
pull, and then did about half an hour before I was knackered from all
the work today as well as a hospital visit after lunch.
It is very basic but There is a place for it, it's used with me almost
as a mechanical hoe, 1 forward gear and 1 reverse. No throttle, you set
a fixed speed.
David @ the Dust-bowl that was the wet end of Swansea Bay