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Holding my own beats going up.
I can empathize. Old barbed wire, cable and even strings from hay bales are Hell on tractor mowers. (7&15 foot) Would use either bolt cutters or cutting torch on first two and utility knife on strings. PITA to remove it regardless of what it was.
Will do mine today since gave it a day to dry out from rain on Friday.
Go forth and have a Great Week!
Never, and I mean NEVER, trust a fart!! 
And it was a mayday situation. Yardwork had the added element of some weight training after I ran over an old dog line I thought I had removed from some weeds. I missed it in my survey of the yard, but I did not miss it with the mower. So there was a brief interlude while I removed the dec****angled the spindles, and put it all back together. Besides that, there was lots of chopping of trees which will be turned into mulch this week coming up.
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Have a good week everyone!
I've got two rotary push mowers I inherited from my grandfather, but I've also got 4+ acres of grass to mow which are not exactly mower friendly. So I use my John Deere rider and do a lot of hand mowing and weed whacking to keep it honest.
Many years ago - 1993 to be exact - a huge honey locust fell on three cars. One man avoided being crushed when someone stopped him to talk with him for a few moments just before it happened. Huge means 24" plus in diameter. I got a huge part of the tree for my woodworking business.
I am glad you were not crushed. Things can be replaced. People cannot.
Yes cars can be replaced, but that's easy to say when you don't have to worry about replacing them.
This tree didn't fall because of high wind or lightning, the ground just got saturated to the point where it couldn't hold the tree any longer. There is literally a pond beneath tree base where the roots used to be. All that soil was washed away.
I agree with the push mowing. I have about 1/2 acre of mowable grass. Most of the home in my neighborhood are on 0.75 - 1.0 acre lots. I am the only person in the neighborhood that doesn't have a riding mower. But I continue to self-propelled lawn mower because it is a guaranteed way to get exercise. Now it does take about 3-4 hours to mow the whole yard (back, front, and sides) but I do get a good workout.
Cars can be replaced. It was a year ago the tornadoes went through Canton, TX. We got farmed out to go looter sit in the dark. Holy Crap! 
You'd wouldn't think concrete utility poles would twist off and break. They do. Spoke to friend of mine that works for electricity distributor about what I had seen and about the concrete poles I have near my house. He smiles and says "Don, you don't have to worry about that pole by your house hitting your house if it falls because your house won't be there!". He knows those poles is rated to handle winds up to 200 MPH. My house ain't!
One of the benefits of WLS is additional movement. I get just as much, if not more, of a workout doing yard work than getting on the treadmill. Oh, if you mow your own yard - get rid of the self propelled lawn mower and get a regular push mower. They are less expensive and you get a workout pushing it. If you want a REAL work out find one of the old school rotary mowers! Swinging a chainsaw around, dragging branches, piling branches tossing logs, splitting logs, raking leaves etc. is all movement. Movement, any movement, is good. 
Start of 6 month pre-op diet (2/14): 320 lbs.
4/23: 298 lbs
4/30: 293 lbs
I have no idea how I dropped 5 lbs. this week??
This was the first week since my initial consult past where my mind was mostly away from dieting/exercising. My life has been crazy since last Tuesday when Mother Nature decided that a tree in my yard no longer needed to be standing and sent us 4 inches of rain within 24 hours to uproot a 75 ft. oak tree that landed perfectly on not just 1, but 2 vehicles parked in my driveway. Both vehicles were totaled.
While I am lucky and grateful that nobody was hurt and that the tree didn't damage the house, it still has been a very stressful week. As a result I didn't exercise at all this week and often found myself eating comfort foods (pizza, ice cream, cookies, breaded foods, snacks, etc.) that are not good for me. Only possible explanation could be that while I didn't intentionally exercise, I did spend a lot of energy out in the yard cleaning up the mess and then on the weekend I helped move a lot of very heavy furniture on both days so perhaps I just burned a ton of calories. On a side note, this was the first time in years I was able to assist with a move without getting overly winded or being in pain for several days after. In fact I felt great yesterday and even better today. Its amazing the difference that being 25 lbs. lighter will have on you. I can't imagine how I will feel a few months after WLS.
I hadn't weighed myself since last Monday so I was really shocked yesterday when I measured and saw I had lost 5 lbs. I really had expected to gain weight.
