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Once at the tip, a guy was looking at a few new in box umbrella bases, after a few minutes, his wife lead him away 'you don't need those'. anyway, i walked over and put all 3 in my trolley 30 seconds later (I probably didnt need them either haha), and he just said to her 'see!'. When she asked him what he would have used them for, and he couldn't come up with an answer, she walked off shaking her head.


That was the best day I ever had at the tip - 2 trimmers, a hedge trimmer, 1 year old leaf blower, 2 new beach umbrellas, the 3 umbrella bases, some retic parts and a couple gregories manuals for $20 couldn't believe my luck

At the same time, they had old 125 cc victas sitting there with no catcher, cracked deck, no pull cord, cracked cowl for $60 - doesn't make sense.

They re did the store and pricing is steady now

Ok so MF didn't like my idea of spraying the yard with agent orange so my thoughts have now moved on to going to the beach and getting a couple of 44's of salt water and spraying the yard with that, never tried it but it might work. Another way would be to get some bags of pool salt. I'm sure even kikuyu wouldn't like that and if done often enough we might eradicate it.

Have you used a four stroke powered 600 on this level of work? Any chance of getting a leg out of bed even with the 2:1 reduction?

MF, there is no way I would consider a 4 stroke for this sort of work it spends too much time standing up on the back wheels and there is too much risk of oil starvation because of the angle the motor is on and this is not good when you have it revving hard

SPFC power plus would be best.

G'day everyone,

I just had a look at those tall grass pics there NormK, I have had a section of my yard that I sometimes leave until it gets to around that height, yes I know I shouldn't let it get that high, but I have slowly mowed through it all with the Victa Commando...lol

I start off with the deck at the most highest setting possible, and start with cutting a layer at that height, then slowly lower the height a bit at a time and knock it all down in layers slowly. Yes it takes quite a few runs over it and many many catcher loads..lol

Revs are usually at full, I almost go through a full tank of fuel in the Victa tank just to finish that one section of tall grass! But the good old SPFC just keeps powering on!

Cheers!

MF, power wise PT or SPFC much of a muchness, it is just a matter of which base you end up with, performance wise they are the same
Converse, a small area of Kikuyu and an 18 inch Victa will get through it but this was a big backyard and I would have taken days to get through it with a smaller machine and make really hard work of it. So far I have used 4 liters of fuel on it but at least I am over half way through it. Getting rid of all the grass is now the next problem so I can run over it again and hopefully chop up all the miles of runners that I have cut over the top of so far. Then I might run over it with an 18 to cut just above the ground and then maybe spray it with salt water. I think it needs a scorched earth policy used on it. Trailer loads of beach sand would be good but you are not allowed to take it.

G'day NormK yes my area is probably 10 metres long by 3 metres wide section. Nothing like the size of a whole backyard! lol

That would be a bit too much area to try and use something like weedkiller on it? For years I used to pull out those runners around certain area's in the yard. Then I was once in Coles and they had some cheap Brunnings weed killer for half price, I thought what the hell i'll buy a couple of these and see if they work. I sprayed the weeds and runners and it looked like nothing happened for about a week, then a week later everything was dead and didn't grow back for ages. It took 2 weeks to work but it kills all the grass down to the roots. Great for when you don't want to use a whipper snipper around poles and edges where the mower can't get to...lol

Cheers!

Old fuel is handy for killing weeds growing from cracks in pathways. Too much of a fire hazard to be used on open lawn though.

I have a couple of hundred liters of old engine oil, that should slow it up. If I could work out how to get my trailer close to the waters edge I could fill a couple of 44's with salt water, I'm sure that would slow it up.

Why not progressively mow the same patch of ground until you can mow it dead flat. I used my old SPFC utility so low down it was digging the soil and it destroyed the grass and left a blanket of mulch on the ground.

How about a few 2l bottles of homebrand white vinegar - about 60c per litre from memory.

Good universal thing - use it to kill weeds, strip rust off metal

and put it on fish and chips

Don't forget that well known remedy for bluebottle welts.
Nuclear waste should work wonders or cause a frightening mutation.

Would have to drink a lot of water to do the whole lawn haha

The nuclear waste would probably turn the glowing report of the 600's work into a literal one - that and the fact that Kikuyu would probably thrive on the plutonium

G'day everyone, this thread is a classic! LOL!

Seriously I once bought a twin pack of Valvoline fuel injector cleaner, I used one in the car and I didn't think it made any difference at all. I actually think it made the car run even worse, so anyway the second bottle ended up going around a pole out on the nature strip where I swear the grass is on steroids! It would always grow like buggery around that darn pole!

After a dose of Valvoline injector cleaner, I didn't have to cut or trim that darn grass from around that pole for ages..lol

About 6 months ago all the nature strip was dug up and re-filled by the people installing the NBN network, so there is not much grass at all just dirt everywhere now. They threw some lawn seeds everywhere but because there isn't much rain at all now with the drought the nature strip just looks like it's been nuked! lol. Oh well saves me cutting it for a very long time now...lol

Cheers!

Last year I was slashing down some thick winter weeds down the back corner of the yard. too tight to get a mower in there, so I use a couple of line trimmers. These weeds are thick, and up to knee height. I am slashing and slashing (with 2.4mm line the trimmer would bog, but 1.3mm it would chop through at ground level easily) and get up near the fence.

Big dead spot of grass, didn't think anymore of it. Turns out, a week prior, the off contents of a rather large jar of home made pickled onions were disposed of down there as they would stink out the bin otherwise.

I hit them at full throttle - all up the fence, in my face (glasses on) and all over me.


The other good one was how I once (in about 2010) somehow acquired (no idea where it came from, I know I didn't buy it) about 3-4 cartons of a carbonated juice called LOL. Apparently it was owned by Heinz.
Anyway, I tasted 1 tin, and it was one of the most disgusting drinks I have ever tasted (although I tried Carlton Zero last week and didn't care for that much either).

So i had probably 50 cans of this stuff that was about to go out of date. So we grabbed a big shovel and played cricket with the bloody things. Tins were quite tough, and they often ended up pretty agitated by the time they popped.
This stuff ended up all over the lawn. Now the odd thing was, I was chucking all the buggered tins in piles - all the black coloured cans (black current from memory) went in one pile, and the silvers went in another.

The grass under one pile shot up over the next few weeks, the other died. The only thing I can put it down to is the amount of food acid in the different flavours.

I guess the best we can get is the Glyphosate 540 that should turn it into bare earth for some time. The stuff you get from Bunnings is Glyphosate 360 so the 540 should wipe that kikuyu off the face of the earth