jvmorris
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Reston, VA |  What the heck is an 'orchard mower'?
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Cudni
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Someshire | something like this?
»www.thestgeorgeco.com/catalogue/···ers.html
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jvmorris
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| I dunno, Cudni; I'm totally mystified.
Landlord in UK was just talking to the wife about getting an orchard mower for the property, but I don't think he was talking about anything quite that exotic. We've only got about an acre of land; it's on a hillside and there are actually very few trees inside the property (but those that are there are primarily fruit trees).
There's really no place to garage something that size (unless he's also proposing to provide access to another building which we've not previously had at our disposal). The ground is quite rough and has a lot of buried rocks and other (building?) debris which has pretty much wiped out a fairly large self-propelled petrol rotary mower.
I'd never heard the term "orchard mower" before.
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Cudni
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| how about
»gardenadvice.co.uk/howto/machine···dex.html
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If you have, for arguments sake, a reasonable lawn plus an orchard to look after and your budget doesn't stretch to a mower for each job, then a rotary is what you need. If you buy one with a rear roller and a grass bag, you can take off the bag, raise the cutting height and blast round the orchard to your heart's content. That done, you can re-fit the bag, lower the cutting height and make a reasonable job of the better quality grass areas.
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jvmorris
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| Well, we had a rather hefty rotary mower, self-propelled, for that matter. Multiple forward speeds and considerable adjustment possible in mowing height.
That's what already got 'eaten' by the lawn areas (laid to grass, that is). Although a lot of grading had already been done, the ground is still quite steep, even though there are about three terraced levels. (We're talking Stiperstones here, Cudni.) Some sort of self-propelled mower is essential, given the slope and size of the areas laid to lawn. (The property 'behind' us is probably 60 feet higher, still largely covered by gorse and/or heather.) The horse meadows 'in front' of us continue with a fall of at least another 60 feet (probably more, but I don't have the maps available at the moment). The boundaries between the 'terraces' are either rough stone walls or more typically hedgerows covering an abrupt drop of, say, four to six feet.
Up until about a hundred years ago (and for a couple of thousand years before that), this was a mining area for rock, lead, and tin and the sub-soil is littered with the resulting rubble. (This is actually the old quarry manager's house, as I understand it, substantially renovated of course and with fantastic views across to the Devil's Chair.) However, this is not the first abode built on this site and there's also plenty of building rubble from earlier dwellings. (You find this when you start mowing!) And I'm not talking about wood here, but rather brick and stone.
I'd be tempted to 'borrow' some sheep and goats from local smallholders, but the property is no longer properly fenced (nor are there any remaining shelters for same). The only 'solution' that we've found is to have one of the local farmers bring a full-size English tractor equipped for hedge-cutting up and run over the fields, but that churns them up even worse than they currently are. So, it's not really an ideal solution and it's also rather expensive.
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poacher 1rtd
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June 16th, @01:39PM
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These are the best orchard mowers.
Did`nt see your last post, but they`re still the best orchard mowers. |
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