Who has the smallest lawn and uses a tractor?
 

Just wondering who has the smallest lawn and uses a tractor.

I'll start, I'm on a little less than 1/4 acre, or 100 ft x 100 ft. Minus the footprint of the house, sidewalks, shed and driveway I can mow my yard in about 20-30 minutes, including trimming and using the push mower. A little overkill but I inherited my dad's 1450 with 44A mower and fixed it up. Hope to use it with other accessories and finally build a garden after years of slacking :biggrin2:

Anyone on an even smaller property?

You'll get no ribbing from me. I'm glad that you are using your dad's 1450. Even if you don't have a lot of grass to mow.
Good luck on the garden too. Mine's doing great this year.

You should see a few of the neighbors of mine. They mow 1/2 acre with 60" zero-turn mowers. It makes quick work though... so I can't fault them either.

I mow about 3/4 acres of lawn with my 129. The first three years I owned the place, I did it with a 22" cut walk-behind Toro. Actually, I still do use it for some areas of the yard, and to mow in fall...turning leaves to dust.

:)

We have less than an acre, and my wife uses her 2130 to mow the yard.

Everything is relative,,,
an LT might be over-sized for a 1/4 acre,,, but undersized for 3/4 acre,,,
but,, it is still a tractor.

My mower is WAY over-sized for the 8 acres I cut,,, :bigthink:

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The 390 sure makes the cutting fun!! :biggrin2: (90 inch wide cut)

Wow that's insane :lol: You're right it's relative.. I used to mow my parents' yard ~2 acres with the same 1450 and 44A... it took like 3 hours, not including trimming. Eventually after I moved out, everyone got sick of mowing so they started hiring a lawn service.

Depends on who you ask, a 90 inch mower is way too small for 8 acres assuming you have wide open spaces. You got enough HP there to go with more. We wore out a couple rotary mowers behind a 454 (about 40 hp).

I can meander along in a lower gear,,, and cut 4.5 acres per hour.
If I pushed it,, the machine will easily do 6 acres per hour, but, that is too fast for the turns.

The 584 IH does not care, either way, power-wise.
The flail does not re-cut the grass like a bush-hog or lawn mower.

The finished cut is perfect at either speed.
No use rushing, I only do the mowing 3 times a year,,,

Sam Mac has one,,, I wonder if he still uses his? :bigthink:

Yep I still use it. It has gotten a workout the last couple weeks. The weather has been shall we say challenging, rain almost every day. Grass is too wet for the Cub so the Bush Hog Flail mower got the call to action. :beerchug:

3x's???? You know if we knew your vacation schedule a couple of us could sneak up your way with some bag nitrogen and alter your mowing schedule:biggrin2:
Seriously, I got to do that Sat to some of our hay land.

Back to the original poster, I have a friend (he sold me his 2072) that has a near mint 682. Ordinarily he mows his yard with a push mower--its that small of a yard. He had the 682 and the 2072, downsized the house and kept the 682. If it ever goes up for sale......:bigthink: I doubt the wife would realize if it showed up, so darn many of them here now I have to think about it hard before I can count them.

In only have about 7,000 square feet of lawn and have 2 tractors :biggrin2:

I use the 2072 for mowing nowadays, the 1450 sits most of the time. But I don't think I would get that much money for it if I sold it so I'd rather hang on to it, it's worth more to me than whatever I would get for it.

I have 20,000 Sq/Ft and 4 tractors! Well actually 2 are runner, one is in storage and the last one is under heavy maintenance so technically you win since you ratio is lower (3500sq/ft per tractor) LMAO :biggrin2:

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I have a "city lot" I mow with an old cordless Remington lawnmower.(takes around 15-20 minutes) I bought a "Weedeater" Riding mower so the neighbor kid could cut the grass. Made it fun for him. Then I found a 1440, I wanted one to move snow around for a long time. (so I wound up cutting other lawns in the neighborhood with 1440 and the POS Weedeater) I couldn't use my 1440 in my backyard, it wouldn't fit through the gate, and I'd spend more time turning around then cutting, it's like 15' x 35'. (The neighbor kid moved out last month)

Since I sold my other property (about 3 acers) I now only have a 50x50 back yard and maybe a 15 x 18 front yard. But ya bet yer rear I still have my garden tractors and sometimes use them to mow it as well ( takes about 5 minutes with a push mower) my excuse to the wife is I need em for moving snow...

My old lot was 75x150. Ran a Home Depot John Deere rider from '05-'13; Cub Cadet pusher from '01-'05; 782-1861 until this summer when we moved. Now we are on 2.3 acres. Takes a solid 4 hours to mow here.

Be nice to come up with a clean 1864 w/54 GT on it, those decks really cut well.

Looking for an 18 with a 54" deck huh?

It would be nice. My 61 has the 54" & it's a grass eating SOB. I'd like to step up to a Command engine and power steering.

What if it had a cat 0 3pt, rear end braces, and hydraulic outlets on the front and back? :bigthink:

Even better, but my wife would kill me. She just lost her job, so spending money on a mower isn't happening anytime soon.

We're on a normal "city lot" of about a 1/4 acre total. So I guess we mow about 6000 sq. ft. with a 100 & either a 38" or 42" deck. Takes me usually 75 minutes to string trim, push mow around the obstacles (house, shed, garden, 1 tree & electrical boxes) and ride the tractor around to finish.

I can save about 15 - 20 minutes by not using the tractor.

But... I use the tractor for mowing, snow removal, landscaping, moving my sled/atv in & out of its storage spot behind the house, haul tools & material in the yard trailer & garden work.

Most importantly, I keep the tractor because I grew up on a 100 (which my parents still have & use) and I can give rides to my boys (4 yrs & 18 mths) around the yard and neighborhood. That alone is enough to justify its use, IMHO.

im on a 55 x 250 (9,000 sqft i mow) and use a 127 with a 48''. got to keep it under 2 hours other wise the wife suspects im just screwing around.

I have a acre and a half, but the yard is full of other stuff. The pool and the Lelands take up half the back yard. My go to mower on my yard is a Gravley 300. It takes exactly 20 minutes if I go all out to mow the yard. But all the other stuff takes another hour.

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Your place looks awesome...but where is the beer fridge? After living in Wisconsin for years, every basement, garage, barn, deck or pool area had a beer cooler somewhere. :beerchug:

Lol, it's to the left out of picture range. There's also a built in BBQ under that umbrella, but it's hidden. I did the brick work myself, and decided that it would be cool to add it.:biggrin2:

Nice looking yard Ronnie. :beerchug:

I live in a townehome , so I legally have no yard ( I own my driveway and back porch but no grass ) ... but I have 2 pieces of equipment , my Cub 128 w/42" ( stored off site ) and a commercial mower ( Bob cat T20N w/FM60S ) which I use to mow the HOA grounds ) the grounds take me 4 hours ( 5 acres large lot and 6 small lots ( about 1 acre total)

All things are relative,,,
If this flail does not work out,, I will ge an 84" RFM for it!!

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Ronnie, your backyard is just awesome. :beerchug:

I would be happy to have just built that for someone. Owning it is even better. :ThumbsUp:

Ronnie your back yard look like a magazine picture! Amazing work! My hat down to your lady for his floral arrangements. :beerchug:

Your such a show off CAD! LMAO :ThumbsUp:

Thanks guys. The only thing is I plant all the flowers myself. The better half has to work and I've been retired since I was 51. Gives me something to do:)