On Fri, 6 May 2016 11:50:19 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:

It's been raining pretty much every day for more than a week, and the
lawn is about out of the capability of my lawn tractor to mow it
down...It's either goats, or my landscape guy with his high powered
cutter for $150. Grrrr....

Huh?
What kind of lawn tractor won't cut the grass, no matter how high it
is?
When I was doing the neighbor's yard I cut down some Cogan grass that
was over 4' high. I had to back up and crash into it a couple times on
each clump.