Thats gonna take 3 years to dry

Viscous cement (e.g. Portland cement) is mixed and poured. Cement cures to form solid concrete.

good for you!!

When I bought my house, the neighbor asked me if I would hire her kid to mow my lawn. He charged more than almost any commercial provider so I never did.

She said he needed to work mowing lawns because he could not work at McDonalds because he had to spend all day working out to build up muscle mass so he could get a football scholarship

Kid was pretty large already.

I obviously did not hire him. For one thing, I had a lawn mower and I was able to do it myself. I enjoyed it and I learned a lot about machines taking care of the mower.

Win Win

I eventually had to hire a reliable company because I was away for extended periods and actually got a citation from the city when I let it go too long

mk5000

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694-1773), British statesman, man of letters. Letter, 7 August 1749, in The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (1774).

Some kids use the owners' lawn mowers. I don't remember what that kid used but I'm sure I already had one. After he went off to college, it broke and I got a second one and it broke and I spent weeks trying to make one work, by taking parts from one for the other, and then the other way around. Finally one day after I'd pretty much given up someone stole both of them. I'll bet he was surprised when he got home. And it was a relief for me.

I have an end-of-group townhouse so the yard is still small so then I got an electric. It starts every time.

Wow. No one ever gave me an award for my lawn.

My next door neighbor got a battery powered Ryobi riding mower earlier this year. Like you say, it starts every time. She loves it. She used to mow every 3-4 weeks, but since getting the electric model she was out there every weekend. I offered to make a drink holder for it.

For years I've been wondering when a decent battery-powered lawn tractor would be available ! It seems the _perfect_ application for the technology - put a solar charger on the shed roof - it sits all week on charge - if it can last about 2 - 3 hours on a full charge most homeowners would be A-OK. < my half-acre is easily done in an hour >

Battery life and replacement cost would be a big factor.

I dunno - it claims 2.25 acres but only 1 hour of runtime. It takes me almost three hours with my 48" John Deere to mow 2.5 acres.

Takes 7 hours to charge.

$7,000. About 3x the cost of a JD 100-series.

The JD 100 series is ok for light duty, but not for pulling hills or doing anything requiring heavy pulling with the rear wheels. The transaxel will wear out in about 300 hours. Did that. The mower would pull fine on flat ground, but about 2 trips up the 100 foot long hill I have and it quits moving. That mower is a POS that came out to compete with the low end mowers.

Should have paid the $ 8000 for a good mower for my 1.5 acers I mow. Thinking about it this summer.

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 19:40:11 -0500, Ralph Mowery posted for all of us to digest...

Find a crew that does it for you. $8k will buy you a lot of mowing with less aggravation and maintenance. IMHO What's your thoughts?

I had to fill a pit like that when I worked in a cardboard box factory. The pit was excavated for a machine that was delayed and we needed to bring it back to grade for a few months for safety.

I had them fill with pea gravel and pour (place!) the top six inches with concrete, then when the machine was ready we broke the concrete and removed the pea gravel.

At work now we call a very wet low strength concrete "flowable fill." We use it for space filling like voids or an underground tank we can't get out. I would say that qualifies as pouring.