for a few hours. the farmer who works out fields was out plowing and planting all weekend, and while he was doing that we had to rake the three acres of lawn around the house and barn. this year we had so much rain, so constantly, during the spring that the yard stayed too wet for my husband to be able to get out on it with his tractor and keep it mowed. as a result, the grass grew too long between mowing, and that left a problem of far too much long, dead grass laying about on the lawn. we had to rake it up in order to keep 