Rural/Farm Life

Plus another acre as a yard.

I use a mowing and trimming service for $50 a week for my yard. I don't ever let them spray ever. A lot of amature yard services don't rinse out their sprayers and can get weed killer mixed in with fertilizer.

You don't need fertilizer. I never fertilize because I get run off from pastures around here. I never had a problem. But the service is very bad at trimming. I always have to redo it. But for $50 they are able to get all my hills mowed.

I get the pasture bush hogged about 2 to 3 times a year. I own a tractor and mower attachment that he uses and I pay for diesel. It costs $300 to get him to bush hog. It takes him about 5 hours and he doesn't get all the steep areas.

Once, I had a fancy bush hogger guy come out. He had a low riding mower/tractor that could take the steep hills. He quoted me $300, after he looked at it. But then after he was done he wanted to charge me $400. That would have been $100 an hour it only took him 4 hours. I paid him $300 and never used him again.

Yeah, bush hogging isn't cheap especially with big hills. I imagine if you have flat land, you could let it grow and see if a farmer wanted it for hay. Let them hay it and keep the bails. Then they cut it for free.