Signs of Spring

Hi Gardiner, Different part of the world but we were mowing today we usually start 1 week of March, ground conditions are good and dry and the grass is growing, long season until November!!
Daffs are flowering here too

The last couple years. My mowing has been moving up by 2 weeks.

My daffodils are just showing the tips breaking ground.

Im in the KC area and winter is essentially over here. About 5 weeks early over. Guys are out cleaning up an HOA today. I helped them for a few hours yesterday. We have rain moving in this afternoon that will last till Friday so we will be starting mulch next week. Im going to guess we will be mowing a lot of properties 2-3 weeks early with these warmer temps and instead of being cold and snowy.

seeing dirt through the snow......

Soil! It's not dirt.

No we have dirt......

hal said:

No we have dirt......

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Too bad. Nothing grows in dirt. 😢

Wolfgang said:

Hi Gardiner, Different part of the world but we were mowing today we usually start 1 week of March, ground conditions are good and dry and the grass is growing, long season until November!!
Daffs are flowering here too

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Looks like a very mild winter for you guys in Europe, good news with crazy high gas prices.

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The no hand signals sign, is that because you aren't expected to use them because you need both hands on the sticks? I thinks there's a road homologation kit with indicators available for the 997.

our winter has sucked. All snow has been west and north. we're over 80% bare ground here and almost 50 today. Supposed to get a mix of who knows what tomorrow, but with all this bare ground and warm temps it's just going to turn to unusable slop we need to move but can't play in really .

But the past 2 winters have been very mild for us, but spring has been pretty cold. I'd rather get more teens for highs in Jan and Feb with warming in March than the warm winters and 20's and 30's well into April and May like we have been

Brucey said:

The no hand signals sign, is that because you aren't expected to use them because you need both hands on the sticks? I thinks there's a road homologation kit with indicators available for the 997.

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I saw that thanks, but I think its a US kit though, We have the sign for large industrial sites we work on, health and safety, most moving machines are huge making us feeling very small when on the internal roads.

Brucey said:

Looks like a very mild winter for you guys in Europe, good news with crazy high gas prices.

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Our weather rarely goes below freezing, we offer a gritting service as most we get over winter is ice, we have gritted about 10 days this winter so far.
Spring kicks in early here, seems the grass never stops growing here too. nice to get out early though and smell the cut grass

Brucey said:

The no hand signals sign, is that because you aren't expected to use them because you need both hands on the sticks? I thinks there's a road homologation kit with indicators available for the 997.

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Dude….He’s not mowing the street. How much traffic do ya think in Ms Jones backyard? It’s kinda like the(student driver) on the back of a pro stock.😂

FLC2000 said:

Im in the KC area and winter is essentially over here. About 5 weeks early over. Guys are out cleaning up an HOA today. I helped them for a few hours yesterday. We have rain moving in this afternoon that will last till Friday so we will be starting mulch next week. Im going to guess we will be mowing a lot of properties 2-3 weeks early with these warmer temps and instead of being cold and snowy.

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Man did I screw that up. Got 4 inches of heavy wet snow yesterday and had to re hook the plows and hit the commercial lots. Possible storm next week also.

Still going to get some mulch in on the nice days.

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That's what I'm afraid of jumping to soon. These warm days sure can be a tease. 70 yesterday 40 today. Here is looking Into next week.
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I wouldnt mind waiting but the guys need hours and my bank account is starting to dwindle with hardly any snow to push this winter.

FLC2000 said:

I wouldnt mind waiting but the guys need hours and my bank account is starting to dwindle with hardly any snow to push this winter.

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Wasn't for the two properties with handicap ramps. I would have not rou any snow. That's all I have done since November 8th . All my deposits are from the yearly contracts. So I do have checks coming in all year round.