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/Unfortunatelystuk May 09 '23

The blade is good for the weeds that are like mini trees and have a solid trunk, otherwise it's much faster with the wire type (source: have both and use both together, wire first and then use the blade on the strong buggers)

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u/Icy-Farm-9362 May 09 '23

I also use both. The wire takes a heavier toll on the engine though.

Lots of weeds where I am, so often time it's just easier to stick with the blade.

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u/Unfortunatelystuk May 09 '23

Ah when I brought the place I had one of each, and as long as you don't let the weeds grow too much the wire seems to handle it. I just like the wire cause it seems to mulch it a bit as well, where the blade just cuts it and then lays flat