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Supposed to be 90+ nearly all week this week, humid. For MN, about as hot as you can get....plus add in drought conditions here as well.

Do most of you guys keep pushing the mowing all day long in the high heat? Note: I am talking irrigated lawns and only the non irrigated that need mowing, NOT blowing dust out the deck on dormant lawns. I get concerned with the high heat I am going to start heat tracking during the afternoon hours, and that looks like CRAP and amateur hour when it happens.

Was thinking of just mowing like 7:30 to 1 this week to avoid issues. Maybe over cautious?
 
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Nope smart, just mowed my yard, I will break it up over the week....94 right now at or near 100 rest of the week...
 
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It's lawn by lawn.

Some might be clay and hold water fairly well, some might be sandy.

Or, like yesterday, about 1/3 of the county was pounded with rain while 2/3's didn't get squat. A lot of our customers are in the 1/3.
 
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We cut all day. haven’t seen 109 yet, but it’s been about 100. 2 weeks ago my one employee was out of town and I had some 12 hr days in 95 degrees with humidity, central ga
 
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I would say it varies lawn by lawn, however almost all (or all but like 2-3) of our lawns are irrigated so they tend to not dry out to much during the week. in addition we seem to be getting a decent amount of rain (or at least the weather people tend to forecast somewhere between 20-90% rain chance for the last few weeks and the next few weeks).
Heat wise: we seem to be tracking low-to-mid 90's with feel like temps of about 100-115.
 
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ed.hesslawns said:
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Cant really compare southern turf and heat vs our turfgrass up here vs heat. I guess this question is more for the northern turf guys. Its probably much easier to heat track a lawn up here than down there.
 
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I do the same thing . Stop at 1 in drought conditions over 90’ . Never had an issue. Some landscapers didn’t listen to me last year and mowed a regular schedule. They got chewed out big time for the tracks. It takes a while for them to go away. I’m cool season turf.
 
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Told the guys after work tonight that for the remainder of the week and all of next week its going to be a 630 start time (instead of 730) and we are not working past 3:30. Heat indexes from 105-115 till next couple weeks. 5 gallon coolers on the truck have been getting iced and filled almost every day the last week.
 
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MowDaddy said:
Same thing up here in northern MN. Non irrigated lawns I try to do mornings or later afternoon. Most are on a 3 week schedule right now. Irrigated lawns I save for mid day heat.
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The only reason we are still mowing weekly in this heat is because till now we have had a cooler summer and in the last 2.5 weeks we have had 8 inches of rain from 4 storms. Normally its browning up by now.
 
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