{"id":255,"date":"2021-06-27T21:53:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T21:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2021-06-27T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T23:31:08","slug":"rightsizing-the-long-and-winding-road-to-mow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/27\/rightsizing-the-long-and-winding-road-to-mow\/","title":{"rendered":"The long and winding road… to mow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Bigger… Better… Faster… MORE!<\/p>\n

Sometimes I feel like we have to go big or go home… and, with power tools, that might not be quite the right decision. We have NO meadows; we have a forest. Yes, it was clear cut back in 2014 but it was fully prepped and replanted over the following couple of years. Really, the only thing we need to mow – are our roads. There are many of them and they’re all formerly logging roads. But, they have a grassy center and the sides really start to encroach on the drive if we don’t deal with them. We definitely needed a riding mower but did we need a great big mower deck? Nope, we just need to mow each section individually. And, with the ditches and rocks – I really just need to make sure I don’t lower the deck too far. So, we got a little cub from Home Depot. It definitely wasn’t cheap but the bigger decks and bigger lawn tractors were twice the price. Do I love our little cub – why yes I do. And, I actually LOVE mowing – which I have to do roughly every two weeks. It’s about that time again.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the roads I have to mow. It’s really peaceful. It actually reminds me of when I used to ride a bike (my motorcycle days – I started with a Yamaha Maxim 400 and then bought a beast – an R1200c BMW). I loved riding and the feel of the open air but the large number of rainy days seemed to make my fair-weather riding difficult! And, I eventually sold my bike. The mower reminded me of that… but, A LOT slower<\/strong>. LOL<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Bigger… Better… Faster… MORE! Sometimes I feel like we have to go big or go home… and, with power tools, that might not be quite the right decision. We have NO meadows; we have a forest. Yes, it was clear cut back in 2014 but it was fully prepped and replanted over the following couple of years. Really, the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photopost","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingcampsavage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}