Hemlock

[Matthew Arnold]

I was mowing about 250sqm of it today with our 13 HP DR mower with the lawn deck. We fitted a new belt first thing as last years one snapped on monday on relatively easy grass. The side discharge kept clogging up so we used one of our straps to hold it up slightly to prevent it clogging. I've mown 6 inch grass in the rain to a 2 inch cut and i didnt have any problems with the discharge clogging. Spraying wasn't an option due to there being orchids and dog violets under the knee high hemlock. Was good fun doing it but stank of hemlock juice as the blades pretty much turned the stems and leaves to mush and sent the juice out in a very fine mist.

[janey]

It's just as well hemlock water dropwort isn't poisonous or anything if you ended up getting covered in it and inhaling a good few lungfulls of fine mist then, isn't it?

 

Oh, it is

 

How are you feeling?

[hazzygawa]

Uh oh, no reply!!!

[chris23a]

Hes dead.

[Matthew Arnold]

It's just as well hemlock water dropwort isn't poisonous or anything if you ended up getting covered in it and inhaling a good few lungfulls of fine mist then, isn't it?

 

Oh, it is

 

How are you feeling?

 

It was the bog standard Hemlock (Conium maculatum). Arms were itching like mad yesterday in the sun and luckily held my breath when the discharge was facing the wind. No ill effects. So will live to fight another day.

[Matthew Arnold]

Uh oh, no reply!!!

 

Hes dead.

 

I'm still alive

[janey]

... So will live to fight another day.

 

Wear one of those disposable gimp suits next time, you know you've been dying for an excuse to!

[tractorboy1]

Wear one of those disposable gimp suits next time, you know you've been dying for an excuse to!

 

Do you mean one of these?

[janey]

Do you mean one of these?

 

 

You don't 'alf get up to some odd things in your time off !