Snapper Walk Behind Mowers??

All small movers I have seen are blade direct on the shaft, cut higher and get rid of the rocks or ruin the mower.

In some places you end up mowing rocks on occsion whether you want or not ...

Just leave the lawn a bit longer. Saves a lot of trouble with the mower.

Maren

Napalm Heart wrote:

How about gathering up the rocks and building a wall with them?

I want lawn mower information, not knucklehead juvenile responses.

--James--

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How about gathering up the rocks and building a wall with them?

Cow or sheep brand, good on rocks. OK only a knuckle head would want a lawnmower to run over rocks

Actually he was very much on subject. Clean up the rocks then you can determine which mower is best to mow the GRASS.

In Usenet, you get what you get. If you insist on trying to mow rocks, you might try a DR mower.

You are the knucklehead for running over the same rocks over and over again.

Lawnboys blade is direct on the shaft, He wants a mower that the blade isn`t solid to the mover so he wont ruin the crankshaft when he hits rocks. As another poster maybe DR has a string trimmer type, but I believe it is a brush cutter and wont give a great looking lawn.

If it has a BS engine, it is garbage.-Jitney

Naw, B & S is super. I have used many of them for many years.

A darned good engine.

--James--

That's been my experience.

Ken

B&S have different grades of motors they are all good , better than techumpsee, but it is who takes care of them that matters

Ok, don't cut rocks. Rocks are not lawn. Snapper does not manufacture a rock cutter.

"James" posted on that vast internet thingie:

Snappers are great mowers, but no mower will do very well for very long with rocks. They will modify the mower.

Remember the kids game "rock breaks scissors"? There is a sound physics principle that would also apply to your scenario. (No no, I don't mean covering the rocks with paper.)

I humbly suggest removing the rocks or changing their shape to be well below the blade of the mower. I know, a lot of work, but think how nice it will be to mow without the worry.

Steve at SELLCOM

I would suggest that if they have the money, they certainly can choose to wreck as many blades and mowers as they want. It may not be the choice brighter people would make, but if they've got the money, let them waste it.

Rubble fields do not make good meadows. If you can't set the cutting blades on the mower high enough to miss the rocks, then (A) Switch to a sickle-bar mower, (B) Truck in dirt to bury the rocks, and then clear them over the years as they float to the surface. (C) fence the area and buy about 3 sheep and a goat. (D) Build a dam and flood the area every couple years, drowning the plants that you don't like. (E) Clear the perimeter, mow that, and burn the middle off. Plant blueberries.

--Goedjn

Cuz they are imbedded deeply in the ground and only a few inches stick up? That's what I have an acre or so of, below the area that has been finished as lawn. If you were to bring your pick and shovel, you will find that many are too large for even several persons to pick up, if you cared to spend days digging around them. Obviously OP doesn't care to take on a large land clearing project with heavy equipment, but is only trying to keep the brush under control.

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