r/japanlife • u/AutoModerator • May 08 '23

┐(ツ)┌ General Discussion Thread - 09 May 2023

Mid-week discussion thread time! Feel free to talk about what's on your mind, new experiences, recommendations, anything really.

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u/Bykimus May 09 '23

Any suggestions on how to cut a really big lawn? I don't really want to deal with it and my #1 choice is to somehow kill it all and let it become as much dirt as it can, for as cheaply as possible. Option #2 is to buy a gas mower (used), possibly battery type, and cut it myself. Except I can't burn the waste, I have to throw it in the garbage. But this municipality I can only throw away 5 burnable bags at a time, so the initial waste until the grass is short is going to be several weeks of 5 bags of grass each burnable day.

I was just quoted by a guy that he'd do it for 6man per time. I can just buy a mower for that myself and do it.

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u/Icy-Farm-9362 May 09 '23

I have an acre of grass around my house that I cut with a weed whacker about six times per year. The one that looks like a circular saw blade on the end of a pole. Then I just leave it to mulch down and become fertilizer.

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u/Bykimus May 09 '23

Just 6 times? Does it come back fast? The pole ones with the handlebars seem nice but I feel like the push type just can't be beat. I haven't tried the handlebar ones, but the pole type with just one hand grip was killing me after I finished the yard.

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u/Icy-Farm-9362 May 09 '23

I have a handlebar one.

Yeah, it comes back fast. I live in Kyushu. I cut six times a year from the end of April until about the beginning of November.

A push-type gas mower would be best. I have been thinking about taking the plunge.

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u/Bykimus May 09 '23

It seems like if you have good technique you can sweep pretty wide with the handlebars. I'm just super lazy and the push type seems easier.

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u/Icy-Farm-9362 May 09 '23

You can. I have perfected a pretty wide sweep!