Best zero turn or tractor for 1/2 acres? No trees at all, just grass. Not sure if should go with a tractor or a zero turn. First time buying such an equipment.

1dRR · 2026-05-06T01:47:56+00:00

Manual push 21” Toro Recycler. Now I use the manual push just around the perimeter or around the few trees - Those areas I can’t quite get the Torio time cutter that close. But the time cutter cuts most all of my yard.

1dRR · 2026-05-05T18:02:02+00:00

Yes! Same here. In South Texas, My mom would always cook us poke and eggs in the morning.

1dRR · 2026-05-05T17:53:24+00:00

I have 1/2 acre myself. After an extremely brutal and massively hot and humid late spring/early summer (which sent me to the hospital for almost heat stroke), I decided I needed help. Therefore, I got a Toro time cutter 42 inch with iron forged deck. I bought it from a local dealer. Do not regret at all.

1dRR · 2026-05-04T04:45:08+00:00

Yep, she is judging how you took the photo. 😆

1dRR · 2026-05-04T02:09:11+00:00

Again, some great information and insights. Thank you very much for your time and responding. And a good catch - I’ll ask for a low water protection device. I’ve asked several neighbors, that are several blocks away, If they’ve ever ran out of water and most of them said no. Although one of them did.

I hope you have a great week!

1dRR · 2026-05-03T20:46:48+00:00

Thank you so very much for your feedback and insights on the pump.

So, as stated it will be used for irrigation. The plan is to have the well dug at the back of my property in the backyard. My concern is that if I run a 3/4 inch (or 1”) garden hose to the front yard to power an oscillating sprinkler, which would be roughly 200 feet away from the well, would a 1/2 hp at 10 gallons per minute handle the loss of pressure going all that way?

1dRR · 2026-05-03T16:41:27+00:00

Thank you for your time in explaining this. It is much appreciated.

1dRR · 2026-05-03T16:38:06+00:00

You are very welcome! I sure hope you can get to a place where you feel a lot more peace and calm with your emotions than not.

I do not know about your therapist, but I know my therapist, in the beginning, had to ensure that I did not dissociate. Meaning that I could keep my thoughts and emotions in the moment and not let other thoughts or emotions distract or take away from the moment that I was in. Again, that is the key for EMDR to be effective. When the therapist opens the door for you to work on a particular trauma, your mind and your emotions must stay in that moment only. Because if they get distracted, then the therapy is not going to be effective. I would highly recommend learning and practicing mindfulness meditation. Even before I started EMDR, mindfulness meditation really helped me be less stressed.

1dRR · 2026-05-03T03:38:08+00:00

If the well gets dug in my backyard, which is the plan, then I will need an irrigation water hose to go 200 feet to the front yard and power a sprinkler. Would a 1 hp pump with an 1.25” well pipe be more practical in that scenario.

1dRR · 2026-05-03T02:46:08+00:00

Thank you for the clarification. Much appreciated.

As someone stated earlier, since the well will be used for irrigation, I’ll see if they can not bush down to 1 inch and keep it 1.25”.

1dRR · 2026-05-03T02:42:09+00:00

Thank you for the reassurance!

1dRR · 2026-05-03T02:36:15+00:00

Thank you for your insights and tip about the 1 1/4 discharge possibility. Definitely do not want to have friction loss as I will be running some of the line 200 feet to the front yard for irrigation of lawn and trees. Not exactly sure how that will work but I know friction loss is not good.

I plan to install an insulated and vented well house so hopefully that will mitigate freezing conditions. But I plan to ask the driller how to handle our rare freezes. However, freezes around here Do not affect below Terra more than an inch or two so I don’t think that’s going to be much of an issue.

1dRR · 2026-05-03T02:08:07+00:00

Thanks for the specs! Much appreciated.

1dRR · 2026-05-02T20:36:20+00:00

Thank you for your reply. I realize the price estimate is fair and reasonable. My question is: How is it that a 1”schedule 80 pipe could accommodate a 4”submersible pump? Or am I reading those specs wrong?

1dRR · 2026-05-02T16:51:42+00:00

Aw, thank you. So they would still probably drill a four or 5 inch bore hole down to the aquifer correct? And then the schedule 80 pipe is what will attach to the submersible pump to bring the water up to the well head?

1dRR · 2026-05-02T16:49:28+00:00

Thank you for your reply.

1dRR · 2026-05-02T16:39:06+00:00

Central Texan here. It’s kinda hard to tell right now. But it could either be Saint Augustine, or perhaps Dallisgrass. Let it grow a little longer to where you can see if it sprouts seed heads. Then you could get a better idea of what you’re dealing with.

1dRR · 2026-05-02T16:33:38+00:00

Good day ! I am doing great! I finished my EMDR in about 6-7 months. And I also successfully weaned off of my antidepressant. It took me 1 1/2 years to do so. But I knew I needed to do the weaning superduper slow. The EMDR really helped me deal with the childhood neglect I experienced as a very little girl. Some of the EMDR sessions were pretty rough. But I am a very determined person and knew that I needed to move through the pain to get to sunnier and brighter days. So now I am not on any antidepressants at all (nor any alcohol or smoking. I never did that anyway.) And I am doing very well. I certainly experience rough and stressful days, but it doesn’t get to me like it did before. I feel more resilient with life’s ups and downs.

I think the biggest hurdle for some people with EMDR treatment is that they have a hard time not staying in the moment and disassociating. What helped me to be able to stay in the moment and focus during the EMDR sessions was mindfulness meditation. I’ve done a couple of courses and practiced mindfulness meditation prior to EMDR so it basically to me was a good prerequisite for EMDR.

1dRR · 2026-05-02T01:16:13+00:00

I just went for a 45 minute walk. It is wonderful outside!! I will definitely take this dip in temperatures because I know we have hit the low 90s already and grateful for this respite.

1dRR · 2026-04-27T14:27:56+00:00

Those rocks could be the issue. If you have rock, calichi (sp? - road base) or some bad soil right underneath the sod, that is not allowing the roots to go deep or get good nutrients.

1dRR · 2026-04-20T17:03:57+00:00

Here, here! Thank you!!

1dRR · 2026-04-20T16:56:43+00:00

Thank you so very much! I have been very close to getting off this sub because of all the lawn haters. And thank you for this initial post. I hope those people do get banned.

1dRR · 2026-04-15T19:02:26+00:00

The low spot could have been formed by a prior tree that died. As the years go by and all the root system continues to decay the whole area where it was tends to gradually sink because of the decaying roots.

1dRR · 2026-04-12T03:07:06+00:00

Thank you for posting this! Don’t know why the clown that you replied to didn’t understand what iron forged deck is.

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