Originally Posted by Benny Kovacs (Post 12897341)

Get a couple of goats instead, the added benefit is milk during grass season and meat in the winter

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Originally Posted by Benny Kovacs (Post 12897341)

Get a couple of goats instead, the added benefit is milk during grass season and meat in the winter

:thumbsup:

Originally Posted by Peter_in_Hungary (Post 12897278)

Strimmers vs. lawn mowers. Large strimmers are no more dangerous than the user (like fast cars!) Strimmers are useful for grass that is too long or wet for a lawn mower (in the spring) and for places that lawn mowers can't get to. Larger strimmers can use plastic cord, blades or saw discs, smaller ones (domestic size?) are better restricted to cord. If it is only edges that you want a strimmer for then consider an electric one (corded are much cheaper than battery) If you want to do the 1st, 2nd and last cut of the year then get a petrol one.
Lawn mowers can collect grass cuttings, are quicker than strimmers and are more environmentally friendly (they are 4 stroke not 2 stroke like strimmers)
Unfortunately IMO 700m2 is not really big enough to justify a ride on mower - but.......

There is a place for both as they do different jobs. For what it is worth I have both a lawn mower and a couple of strimmers and wouldn't be without any of them. The commercial size I use with a blade and a saw disk but I prefer to use a chain saw or the tractor mounted cuttter rather than the saw disk on a strimmer.

Originally Posted by Jack_Russells4ever (Post 12897385)

Another added benefit of goats is they will eat any plant you DON'T WANT them to eat, like flowers, young trees , shrubs etc, One of my friends got rid of goats recently because they wrecked their garden. Goats must have a very good well built fence and a couple lines of electric fence wire on them.:thumbup:

Originally Posted by Sachina (Post 12897433)

My grandparents kept goats when I was a child and if you didn't watch them they'd eat the washing off the line. Goats aren't like dogs in that you can't pop them in the car when they need to see a vet. You need to live in an area where the vet can come to you. Goats also have rather a pungent smell if confined inside and anyone whose been tupped by one will tell you it's quite a painful experience

Originally Posted by Benny Kovacs (Post 12897514)

so, goats are off the menu then

how about sheep?
or a miniature pony?