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@GardenGerty (169439)
United States
February 19, 2017 8:22pm CST
You may or may not remember that last fall I posted about finding a bargain, a riding mower for $400. It needed one more repair and the seller would call us when finished.
He never called. That was right here in town.
Fast forward to last night. I found a wonderful mower on a Face Book Buy and Sell Group. It was about sixty miles away, but he said it ran good. Asking price was $350.
We went to look at it. It had a bit of trouble starting. The guy went and replaced the ignition ring that was worn. It runs great. It is a Dixon Zero Turn Radius mower, if that means anything to you.
We got it in the trailer, but had to drive slowly. While out and about we stopped at Wal Mart and got me some more soil for my container gardening and a tarp to put over the mower in the trailer as it is supposed to rain.
We made it home before dark and dropped the trailer. The mower will stay there until we construct our own ramp and clear a place in the garage for it. Glad to have a tarp to protect it for now.
It has been an interesting weekend.
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13 responses
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
20 Feb 17
So glad to know you got a good mower now.
I have heard of that brand yes.
I hope now this is going to be good for you Heather.
Nice you are now home and can put your feet up.
Good you also got some tarp.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
It is basically bed time now. Work again tomorrow, but this weekend has been a change of pace.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
It will make it so much easier to keep up with the lawn in the heat.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
20 Feb 17
@GardenGerty yes ibdeed abd safert too as you are not so liable to get a heat stroke
as you would pushing a hand mower
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
It is a great deal and it is so easy to learn how to drive it. I am excited.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Feb 17
I am glad you were able to get a mower for fifty dollars less than you would have spent had you gotten the mower the other man was selling.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
It is a much better mower, as well.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Feb 17
@GardenGerty Then it's a very good thing you waited. Would you have had the means to properly store the other mower over winter at any rate?
@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes, we have a 20 x25 foot shed or garage, whichever you choose to call it.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
20 Feb 17
I never heard of that brand but that seems like a good price for a zero turn. Do you have a lot of land?
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
Four city lots. This is a big brand here. They are the blue ones that have no steering wheel but handles to turn with.
@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@AbbyGreenhill So did you have a tractor style mower? I wonder how this will work, we are not flat here.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
20 Feb 17
@GardenGerty I know what zero turn is. We could never use one since we have hills on our property. We have 8 acres and more than half is hills.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
I am very excited. We had talked about new mowers, but I wanted something we could pay cash for it.
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@sallypup (69157)
• Centralia, Washington
20 Feb 17
@GardenGerty I've wondered about a riding mower for us but I don't think we have the place for it. Three acres but its hilly. And rocky. I did buy a walk behind weeder. Gas powered. Kind of hard to use but way better than attacking clumps by hand!!
@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@sallypup Well, from @AbbyGreenhill I see that if your land is really hilly this will not work.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
I have a friend who works on these if need be, but I am thinking maybe it will not happen.
@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
Yes, we stopped and bought one. We need to construct a ramp to get it off the trailer safely. The people we bought it from had a ramp.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
21 Feb 17
@LadyDuck No other way to go, really.
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@LadyDuck (502194)
• Italy
20 Feb 17
@GardenGerty It is surely better to use a ramp, it's the only way to go.
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
20 Feb 17
Hopefully you will enjoy your new mower.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Feb 17
think you got a good deal on that, I do hope that it has little that needs done on it!
@RasmaSandra (97908)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Feb 17
Glad you got your mower and saved some money too. Hope it works well for you.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
I am thinking this is just what I need.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Feb 17
Yes. I could have used that mower last fall to prep the land and make sure all was tidy, but in the end this is better.
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