InsanePyro
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Cut your grass less. I find it to be a loathsome activity and stupid use of my time so I do it as little as possible. Less cutting, less dust
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Riding mowers and dust.. ideas on reducing?
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pcmeiners
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Do like the Brooklynites do, if it grows cover it with 4" of concrete. Sold my Staten Island home last year, within 4 weeks they covered the entire grass/soil area with crete (5000 sqft)
Have the same dust issue when mowing.
Have the same dust issue when mowing.
428PI
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Keep your deck lower and grass higher.
bbbarracuda
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Gotchalol not quite, but I like it.
More like these, probably more of a swim shirt I guess. Very light weight and if I need to cool down, I just spray off with the water hose. I call them fish shirts as I originally bought them to wear out to the beach to go fishing. Now I wear them everywhere.
I have something similar that cuts UV
Wakefield
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Lots that are cut short seem to have dieoff of grass and dusty bare soil spots. Then mostly weeds.
Over a couple of years cutting to the maximum height for the type of grass and perhaps some balanced (not just high nitrogen) fertilizer might allow a thicker turf to develop that won't die off so easily leaving dusty dry surface soil. Perhaps a slow release applied only once per year. In early Fall while a good rain is predicted? (if not ongoing drought)
(Don't scalp the grass)
Over a couple of years cutting to the maximum height for the type of grass and perhaps some balanced (not just high nitrogen) fertilizer might allow a thicker turf to develop that won't die off so easily leaving dusty dry surface soil. Perhaps a slow release applied only once per year. In early Fall while a good rain is predicted? (if not ongoing drought)
(Don't scalp the grass)
rancherbill
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Get a robot mower. Google tells me your mower was made 2001-2 so it's in the range where you might want a new one. Thet are not priced that bad. Just let the little ****** get it done. NO DUST.
Firebrick43
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Maybe you didn't read that it was for 8 acres
rancherbill
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They are not Roombas. This 50,000 square meter (12 acre) unit will do the job. Personally I'd get the Stihl and let it go a couple of times in the day
(psst, just between you and me I dont think the one he has will do 8 acres very quickly with a 46" deck)
https://www.tractordata.com/lawn-tractors/001/1/0/1104-cub-cadet-3184-engine.html
https://www.husqvarna.com/us/discover/ceora/
Firebrick43
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Well on post 47 you said
“They are not priced that bad.”
The Ceora from husquavarna the you cited has an MSRP of $32,829.94
I want your kind of money if that is “not priced that bad”
kaymccampbell
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Coupla thoughts.
1 - Switch to mulching or sand blades. Lots less dust.
2 - Mow at flank speed. You kinda outrun the dust.
3 - Make yourself a power respirator out of an old MC helmet. Full disclosure, I haven't tried it on the mower, cause #2 is working for me so far.
1 - Switch to mulching or sand blades. Lots less dust.
2 - Mow at flank speed. You kinda outrun the dust.
3 - Make yourself a power respirator out of an old MC helmet. Full disclosure, I haven't tried it on the mower, cause #2 is working for me so far.
andyvh1959
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My 1/2 acre lot in Green Bay has a lot of sand in the soil, maybe 2" below the topsoil. Lots of big trees and shade. I used to create a dust bowl when mowing the dirt in the front yard. I've contracted Tru-Green for about five years now and I've actually got a front yard with decent grass and much less dust now. Still working on the back yard and reclaiming grass from all the damn moss. I know in some areas where the topsoil had washed off due to heavy rains, now need topsoil for me to establish grass in those areas.
rancherbill
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MSRP Dealer may sell for less.
My point was there are options.
I cut 2+ acres and in the big growth season it needs cutting every 4 or 5 days. I could get a small Stihl and let it do it twice a day over a couple of days. Nowhere is it written that you have to do it all at once.
BTW that Ceora will be a game changer in the landscape industry in so many ways.