love to see this posted about GPF!

[mtpond]

No problem John, but after seeing Gordys mower you'd be very disappointed with mine . But since I am closer to you then Gordy mine still might be a possibility.

 

[addy1]

Laughing you all are great! You can borrow mine, just come to maryland to pick it up and return it.

I like the fact that we all can say how we take care of our fishies friends, nobodies system is trashed. Everybody's system is different. But we do try to help out if we see some issues that could be fixed.

[quote="Big Lou, post: 208528, member: 5066 It's nice to be comfortable. Where else could I carry on conversations with such great folks while wearing my most comfy boxer shorts. [/quote]

Visual coming up!


My fav clothes is one of my honies T-shirts and a pair of his boxers...................

 

[Becky]

Agreed that the members on this site are fantastic! Keep up the excellent work folks

 

[fishin4cars]

You'll probably want a little training on this mower, so here is a video showing how to operate it.

Would have liked to seen that video about two weeks ago. I went out zero turn shopping. Looked at Toro, John Deere, Husqvarna, Ex-mark, Scag, Hustler, Kubota, Bad Boy, and Country Clipper. Their are so many options, styles, comfort accessories, motor options, etc, etc. Easy to get all confused and over whelmed by looking at all the new styles and options that are now available. I almost bought the Bad Boy Outlaw Extreme with the Vanguard motor in 60" cut. Not really a bad deal at Just over $8,600 for that type of commercial grade mower. I was waiting to see the Bad Boy's XP line that was being brought in by a new dealer in town and decided to take a trip up to the service center I use to see what he had, Glad I did. After looking them all over I decided on the 60" Country Clipper Challenger, at $6,700 TT&L with all the finance charges I felt it was the better deal for the product, Service center is only 6 miles away, and they have been selling and servicing all brands of mower for almost 15 years. I talked to every dealer in our area before deciding. My dealer put me on 6 different types of mowers before introducing us to the Country Clipper line. Honestly for comfort Ex-Mark had them all beat, but @over$12,000 a bit out of my price range. When he showed me the Country Clipper and it's ease of operation I was impressed. Then he showed me the ease of maintance and the quality of the product. My dealer even threw in a whole year of service free of charge including even sharpening or replacing the blades for the first full year and included pick up and delivery for that first year. Hard to beat the offer for any other brand. Oh, and I must say, it chopped almost 2 hours of cutting time off my whole yard over my 52" Cub Cadet and 42" craftsman riding mower combined cutting time. For as much land as we have, I really like it. I love the one hand operation and the easy deck folding to get to the blade features.

 

[HARO]

Laughing you all are great! You can borrow mine, just come to maryland to pick it up and return it.

I like the fact that we all can say how we take care of our fishies friends, nobodies system is trashed. Everybody's system is different. But we do try to help out if we see some issues that could be fixed.

[quote="Big Lou, post: 208528, member: 5066 It's nice to be comfortable. Where else could I carry on conversations with such great folks while wearing my most comfy boxer shorts.

Visual coming up!


My fav clothes is one of my honies T-shirts and a pair of his boxers...................[/quote]

As a personal favour, I'm not going to touch this one!
John

 

[j.w]

I'm afraid if I offered mine to you John H you would actually come and get it

 

[Dave 54]

I belong to four Koi/pond forums, TM and I are on one and I know exactly what she's talking about, Even after two years of being a member I still don't feel the personal connection like I do here. Addy and I are both on another that is similar to here but IMO much smaller and a tighter nitch of people that are active. But the discussions on it get very deep and can get out of hand on certain subjects. GPF just seems to have not only very knowledgeable members but also the friendliest bunch too.

The poblem your having is most koi keepers know each other prior to these websites being put up so its hard for you to click with them.
Running the now defunked KKU website i see members on a regular basis who I've know for many years, in some cases weve known them for much of our koi keeping hobby, this site sort of earths you in that its differing disaplines with differing filtration methods, with different fish etc ,
We formal koi keepers dont have aquatic plants where as you guys do, i makes for some beautiful ponds.
However some koi keepers are elitist they have the big bucks to afford these outlandish prices we dont mix with them nor they us (meaning the normal koi keeper) the only time e we come across them are at major shows,
So this website to us anyway is like a breath of fresh air,with such friendly people , in some cases a tad nutty like ourselves

Dave

 

[j.w]

A tad nutty.................I like that

 

[Big Lou]

Long ago on another pond forum there was a nice member whose idea of pond keeping was, well, out of the ordinary. Over time I learned his ultra modern California home cost around $3,000,000. His koi pond was a 5,000 gallon marble rectangle. It had elavated walkways so visitors could view the pond from most any angle. He had a full time koi specialist and full time pond keeper. His gardens looked like a tropical paradise. With all that said this friendly gentleman was happy to share his extensive knowledge. Photos he posted were amazing.

 

[Sunshine]

I was on another forum. I didn't know anything because I had rocks in my pond. I was harassed for not buying a members food he was selling. Good grief, I just wanted to be with friendly fish people and get ideas on ponding. This forum is so much friendlier and less drama.

 

[JohnHuff]

After hearing these stories, I feel like we should invade other forums and do battle with them!

 

[Dave 54]

Big Lou we at one time had two millionaire koi keepers in our club we were lucky to have them in such a small club like the Plymouth club both however were dyed in the wool down to earth people who looked after their own koi and never fogot thei roots
Sadly ne died a very short while ago the othe s in ill health so we dont get to see him much .
Others like you say have specialist keepers etc doing their bidding so I have to ask , just where is the skill in that ???
Alot of these koi never leave the breeders and are uote brought on by them only seeing major sjows like the All Japan and some of the more prestegous shows or so we have been led to believe
Many of us have learned our fish keeping lessons and are more thadn willing to help others atain a greater knowledge but ask one of them the ones with specialist keepers , i't'd be consult my expert .
These megga bucks koi are fantastic yes but here in the UK you say your a koi keeper and you get hey you must be rich when in reality its the opposite .
Koi theft is on the increase in the UK because of this very myth, sad as it is we all now have to put video cameras in our gardens or risk loosing them.
Google Earth is part of the problem because you can look ight down into someomnes garden see a pond and say if your a crook hey look a pond we#ll check that out if its koi we can earn lots of cash thankfully our own home shows no pond as of yet but when they update it will
The only plus out of this is that the standard of koi has gone up thanx to the big buck people

Dave