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sean Downsizer Moderator
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chez
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wellington womble
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NorthernMonkeyGirl wrote: |
You can get height adjustable toppers that have their own petrol engine, tp be towed behind a vehicle. I'd be terrified of running over unseen junk and firing shrapnel in all directions. Also they catch fire. Um, so I hear. |
They catch fire!? Oh bugger. I thought I'd finally found a solution. Im less concerned about stuff. Even I can't run over a dumper truck by mistake, and I've been picking up the small stuff. What's the best thing to tow them with, though?
I am NOT having a goat. Mohair makes me sneeze, and is horrible to knit with. Also, they escape (always) and eat your garden. And they smell. Alpacas, maybe. It would seem cheaper than selling a kidney to get the mower. And the fibre is nice to knit with. It will still need tidying up and all the edges and corners sorting out. I don't think you can just post them into the bramble patch and wait for them to eat their way out again. Same goes for scouts. Anyway, they'd all fight over the brush cutter.
I'm not sure how spraying would help. At the moment I have rough grass,nettles docks and brambles. If I sprayed I would just get brambles and nettles and other weeds back, unless I mowed it. So I'd still need a mower that could cope with tough stuff and the wobbly terrain. And I'd have to buy a sprayer to tow behind.
So what's the smallest, most reliable thing that can tow a topper? The kind that doesn't catch fire. Or involve selling a kidney.
I'd love to get someone in to do it. I really would. But they'll just do the middle and ignore all the fiddly bits. Or I'll get rid of (say) the dumper truck and won't be able to get anyone in to mow for a fortnight, and the brambles will explode and take over the vegetable patch. Again. I've only just finished evicting them from the greenhouse. Or it's raining so they won't come at all.
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