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an acre is 2.2? hectares ? . how big is an average lawn **0.13 with a 53cm mower and/hour
@3mph hmmmm ;-)
1 hectare = 10,000m2 = 2.471 acres
1 acre = 4046m2
average walking speed ~3mph (depending on how long your legs are !) = 4.8km/hr
average size lawn ? - 1000m2 = ~31m * 31m (we mow commercially so our areas tend to be bigger)
So in 1 hr, walking at ~ 3mph using a 53cm mower I can cut .27 of a hectare at 100% = 2700m2, assuming I let fly and don't run out of fuel
Also, recently, I've used Google Maps to measure areas for approximate times - sometimes saves a site visit
Clear as mud !
lol does it include emptying the grass bag ?
the above seems spot-on...............could be useful
so do you charge by the hr it takes or the size it looks ??????? ;-) plus :-
grids,posts.trees.edges.access.strim.height of grass
One very important aspect of estimating grass cutting cost/time, that's so often overlooked, is overlap.
The greater the overlap of cut the longer the time taken, the more fuel used and the less area covered. On a small lawn the effect is negligible but as the area increases the escalation becomes critical.
Bear in mind that it takes experience and real-time application to apply these real life situations to hypothetical scenarios.