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Miles of mowing

Posted by David Cox on April 24, 2013 at 9:32am

All - just a little fun - if you have one of those pedometer things for counting footsteps... wear one for a week or two whihle cutting grass to work out how many miles you cover behind your mower....

the last 2 weeks I'have done........... 230,442 steps behidng the mower.... not including weeding and strimming..... may be some error as sometimes I forgot to jot down the steps and othertiems took it off 2 mins late...

Stil thats 115,000 steps a week, meaning at my footstep behind a mower, about 69km walked....

And also that means my mowers are traveling 69km under their own steam!

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  • Mel Wright April 24, 2013 at 11:09am

    Sounds too much like hard work that David, artificial gras is the way forward : )

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    Neal Barker @ Etesia uk April 24, 2013 at 1:20pm

    It has its place mel but a 50 by 50 foot lawn (2,500 square feet) releases enough oxygen for a family of four, while absorbing carbon dioxide, hydrogen fluoride and perosyacetyle nitrate.

    if we all went artificial we would be in trouble

  • David Cox April 25, 2013 at 10:26am

    Artificial grass on roofs, but anywhere else is wholy immoral, unjustifiable and an unmitigated 100% environmental disaster - recycled or not, its no different to concrete painted green... Its not a living surface with hundreds of kg of living matter, from protozoa, bacteria all the way up to the big stuff-the grass.

  • andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance April 30, 2013 at 8:19pm

    I've often thought about doing this as I always wonder how far I walk in a week of mowing.

    After seeing this thread I've ordered a pedometer so we shall see

  • David Cox April 30, 2013 at 8:35pm

    I may be adding alot more food to my diet as a result!

  • andy @Doughty Garden Maintenance April 30, 2013 at 8:40pm

    Sounds like a plan to me lol

    David Cox said:

    I may be adding alot more food to my diet as a result!

  • briggsandscrapem April 30, 2013 at 9:02pm

    No wonder mowers need fixing every five minutes.

  • Christopher Ray May 1, 2013 at 5:10am

    Sound like a good idea, no wonder my shoes wear out so fast!!

  • David Harris May 2, 2013 at 7:27pm

    good idea, i like it. ;-0

    fencing North London

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