All small movers I have seen are blade direct on the shaft, cut higher
and get rid of the rocks or ruin the mower.

Cow or sheep brand, good on rocks. OK only a knuckle head would want a
lawnmower to run over rocks

Lawnboys blade is direct on the shaft, He wants a mower that the blade
isn`t solid to the mover so he wont ruin the crankshaft when he hits
rocks. As another poster maybe DR has a string trimmer type, but I
believe it is a brush cutter and wont give a great looking lawn.

B&S have different grades of motors they are all good , better than
techumpsee, but it is who takes care of them that matters

Uhhh, you guys act like there are just a dozen loose rocks lying
around on top of the ground that can be picked up by hand. Come out
to my place and see the acre+ of projecting rocks that are merely the
tip of the much large deeply embedded rocks (boulders to you) that
cannot easily be gathered up.

(This is an open area below the acre or so that has been finished off
for lawn - we have a total of about 12 acres - the rest is wooded.)

We have a heavy duty belt driven large self propelled mower with a
thick blade that can withstand bouncing off the ocassional fixed rock.
Another popular method is to use the various heavy duty wheeled walk
behind string trimmers. Those are OK for grass, but we have a lot of
woody shoots or actual sprouting trees that come up, so we need more
cutting power.

A person without heavy equipment could not possible "clean up" the
rocks in my yard, and I expect his too.


Rubble fields do not make good meadows. If you can't set the cutting
blades on the mower high enough to miss the rocks, then
(A) Switch to a sickle-bar mower,
(B) Truck in dirt to bury the rocks, and then clear them over the
years as they float to the surface.
(C) fence the area and buy about 3 sheep and a goat.
(D) Build a dam and flood the area every couple years, drowning
the plants that you don't like.
(E) Clear the perimeter, mow that, and burn the middle off.
Plant blueberries.

--Goedjn

Goedjn wrote:

Rubble fields do not make good meadows. If you can't set the cutting
blades on the mower high enough to miss the rocks, then
(A) Switch to a sickle-bar mower,
(B) Truck in dirt to bury the rocks, and then clear them over the
years as they float to the surface.
(C) fence the area and buy about 3 sheep and a goat.
(D) Build a dam and flood the area every couple years, drowning
the plants that you don't like.
(E) Clear the perimeter, mow that, and burn the middle off.
Plant blueberries.


I would suggest that if they have the money, they certainly can choose to
wreck as many blades and mowers as they want. It may not be the choice
brighter people would make, but if they've got the money, let them waste it.

--
Warren H.

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