Pretty happy with the progress, I'm aiming at getting it to look it's best ( as well as I can do ) by Christmas. Note the garden bed at the retaining wall is now gone, picked up some roll on Sir Walter seconds and its well on it's way. It will all blend in. This front section of my lawn now consists of what ever Buffalo was around about 18 years ago, Matilda and now Sir Walter.
Looks very nice wce - can just see the outline where the garden bed was.
We did the exact opposite in July 2017 - had a trouble spot of grass that never seemed to grow got ripped up and a rose bed planted (got over a dozen 40 odd year old roses before down the road was bulldozed and 3 units put up).
My problem is now the buffalo is seeding for some reason - plenty of water and fertilizer so hopefully it will go in a couple of weeks. They say to mow when it starts to seed, but with 40 degree tomorrow it wouldn't end too well.
Honestly it's pretty damm hard to kill Buffalo, Kikuyu and Couch, regardless of how warm it gets. Certainly it might not like it, but these breeds of lawn are Aussie Tough.
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
Buffalo is pretty hardy but no where near as tough as the other 2 mentioned. Certainly wouldn't kill the lawn mowing yesterday but the combination of the heat plus the strong hot easterlies is a good recipe for cooking the top off fresh cut lawn. Much better today and will be kinder on the mower, the mowee and the lawn. I managed to get hold of a one owner SB twin rail 17 with original engine which runs mint, I have used it a couple of times, it's a bit tricky getting around the sloped corner bit but I can see why people are fond of them. It doesn't seem to deal with the stolons on the surface but this would be due to the lack of clearance between the blades. There is no way the VSX 160 will be getting retired so my plan is to use it every third or fourth mow. this should keep the stolons at bay and hopefully reduce the rate of thatch build up.
Don't be under any illusion that Scotties are hard to come by as there are thousands and thousands still out there either being used or pushed to the rear of the shed of many folks and considered as obsolete.
This is why I can't get my head around people paying $500 for a junker that needs another $600 ~ $800 spent on it to get it into a servicable state again.
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
Your right, I see plenty of them about and for sale but most are rubbish that need $$ spent on it or the nicer units are pricey so either way it was out of my price range. I was lucky, in the right place at the right time and nice original units that are in good serviceable condition at a reasonable cost are harder to come by. I was happy with the purchase price at $90, it needs a new muffler which I have, just need to make the time to fit it.
I must admit if I obtained a Twin railer and decided on keeping it and it wasn't showing any signs of fracturing yet then regardless of what engine is fitted or how good it is, I'd hoik it off and replace it with one of these new Briggs power plants so as to be kind to those aging rails that will eventually fail with the old thumpers fitted.
Cheers, BB.
I live a 24 Hour lifestyle, but every now and again I seem to fall asleep, well at least that's what my wife tells me.
