OK, I'll give that a try.
Might be a bit late in the year now, usual autumn season for grass seed is October.
Wait until the days are getting longer. Low altitude in the West Country anytime when it is warmish after the end of February should be OK.
Small areas, you should be able to broadcast by hand, and try and roll it over after sowing, press the seeds into the ground, and make them dirty so birds don't eat them.
 
This is quite an idea. Very expensive estate of the art electric suv that leaks oil like a drunk old fool, parked on the big brown spot on my drive way :)
 
Ha ha! No one has ever "needed" a ride on mower, but I had this idea of a solar powered garden tractor / mower charging itself off solar. This was to be a trail run for a Series converson. The point of the ride on was its greater load capacity for the batteries. I did a lot of reseach and at the start there were various compaines claiming to be about to offer a battery electic ride on. 2 years later and only one seemd to be on the market and that was a Chinese one that was very clearly 95% mobility scooter and 5% mower, but rather depresingly, unlike all the mower looking ones, it actually worked. I'd already bought a mobility scooter to break and convert and that went pear shaped when my (then) 92 year old mother tried it and I never got it back so there went my motor, controller and batteries. The more I did the sums the less possible it looked, the problem was the power needed to spin the blades so I cut my losses and made it work as a petrol mower and, I'm afraid to admit, I like it. Yes I look like a knob on it and our garden is not really big enough, but doing the whole 100ft by 40ft lawn on a single grass box is bliss.

SAYs Who? If you really need a ride on mower (I do) then you need 2. A breakdown at peak cutting time will be when you have least time to mend it so a second is essential. - I do not have 2 ride on mowers. I have 3. And 2 sit on cylinder mowers. and I rather fancy some gang mowers to drag behind my SWB.
 
SAYs Who? If you really need a ride on mower (I do) then you need 2. A breakdown at peak cutting time will be when you have least time to mend it so a second is essential. - I do not have 2 ride on mowers. I have 3. And 2 sit on cylinder mowers. and I rather fancy some gang mowers to drag behind my SWB.

Are you the real "Lawnmower man" ? ;):D
PS, An old Grey Fergie would be just the job to pull the gang mower and would able to turn tight corners. Probably run on veg oil as well.
 
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