Mowing in the Rain?

[statman]

Do you keep mowing if it starts to rain? Do you start the next job if it's raining? If so, what is the point you stop?

[lawnkid]

Do a search on that and I do remember therr are a couple threads on that. Any way I stop only when it is severly poring or if there is lightning.

[gravedigger5]

I will at least try to finish the job I'm on if it starts to rain. your going to get wet loading equip anyway, might as well finish so you don't have to come back. I only go to the next job if I'm behind on my schedule. I can asorb maybe up to 2 days behind if I work into the weekend.(HATE to do THAT) If its raining alot in the morning I won't go, but if it quits I will go and mow wet grass. Its been really wet and rainy this year, more than normal, and I have only been upto one and a half days behind.




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[awm]

yea do a search . an if u find some ,send it my way.. i been searching the skys for what seems like 2 months now.:D

[bubble boy]

obviously, we all must stop with lightning

but rain, we go on. i'll likely get nailed for saying this, but we gotta get thru the list even if quality suffers. As long as the job is good enough to not result in a phone call, im satisfied. and i tell the guys that, too.

if we stop, then we start to push days, fri cuts go to sat and we'll get calls anyway.and then stuff to be done sat gets pushed to who knows when, resulting in more calls. much easier to just cut in rain and hope for the best

[rodfather]

We don't like to, but sometimes, you have no choice. If it's at the end of the week and I know we can catch up on Saturday, lots of times I will wait. If it's raining on Monday, usually we will mow cause I hate getting behind that early in the week (especially if the forecast is for more rain later on in the week, too).

I don't know why, but I am always way more tired at the end of the day from mowing in the rain then not. Dunno. Maybe it's just me.

[Bob Minney]

Yah, gotta mow in the rain as long as no lightning-

how do I know if its raining too much and time to quit

A guy will float by in a big boat with a bunch o' animals

[Dennis E.]

As long as the lightning is not close by. We ran into a squall this A.M. at our clinics. Looked like night-time. Real dark. Raining so hard we could not even see the street. But NO lightning.
We waited in the truck!
As the cell passed over the lightning was on the backside of the storm.
We got back in the truck!
We got blue sky after awhile and it was still raining. We started anyway and got it done.
We'll try to send some rain up to you N.C. members!

[Vibe Ray]

Breakin' the law! Breakin' the law! Mowin' in the rain is FUN!!!

[Ajays]

I don't mow in the rain unless I already started the job and need to finish. Otherwise I quit for the day. When the grass is wet it clumps and is extremely sticky and always leaves the yard looking really bad and clumps kill clumps of grass. Wouldn't reccomend it unless absolutely necessary.

[JML]

I love mowing in the rain, I hate the clumping though..

[cowman66]

ya gotta do what ya gotta do, and if mowing in the rain is what ya gotta go, then ya gotta do it!

[Sean Adams]

Just like everyone said...lightning means its time to quit. Also, your ability to keep mowing in the rain depends on your equipment and your employees ability to do things right. If you are pushing an old side discharge 21" mower, probably good idea to let it pass...if you are running the big, high quality commercial stuff....let it rain, let it rain, let it rain....

[David Haggerty]

A good deep deck and some high lift blades, it's not going to clump because of rain. I see more clumping from the tender sap filled grass we get in the spring. That's some gummy stuff!
I don't schedule around the rain. If I did I wouldn't get anything done. We mow our normal schedule. We'll take a break sometimes until a storm cell blows thru, but then it's back to work.

Dave

[Shady Brook]

I think how much wet grass clumps is dependent on the makeup of the turf. I have some lawns that I could mow fine in the rain, but they are more on the sparse side. The lawns that are healthy and thick with a good amount of growth are miserable to mow wet. Clumps, stuff that is very hard to disperse even with a blower, deck filled with junk, and slop dropping all over everything wherever your tires go, or your deck where your deck unloads it's payload.

Jay

[AVRECON]

Unless its lightning and the bottom has really fallen out of the sky, I keep on mowin. Besides compared to the 100 degree heat and dust that I'm used to mowing in, I kinda look forward to it.

[AVRECON]

This was supposed to be under the other thread about rain. Sorry folks!