Too Steep A Slope!?!

[Yardworks]

Got a call today from a McMansion homeowner wanting his 7000 sq.ft. lawn cut, said he paid his last guy $100/cut and had it cut every week but the guy quit coming around. I'm thinking this is a no-pay situation, but I go look at the property anyway. My gosh, 5000 ft of it is almost perfectly flat with only a driveway going through it.....but the other 2000 is, and I am not kidding, on maybe a 10 degree slope, if it were a clock face the hand wouldn't make it to the one!!! I tried walking on it trying to figure out how to cut it but lost my footing and slid to the bottom. I know it can be cut because it was obvious it had been taken care of....I just don't know how. HELP!!! Over $400 a month sounds good to me....but HOW DO YOU CUT RIDICULOUS SLOPES?

[MASTERMOWER]

Confused.

You say a 10 degree slope, but then your clockface analogy would make it greater than a 66 degree slope. (??)

Good luck keeping yourself upright on a slope like that! Perhaps this is why his last lawn guy up and ran? If I where you I'd walk away from the situation before you break a leg and have to hobble off.

OR....suggest a solution to his landscape involving gutting the lawn (if you will) on that drastically steep slope and replacing the turf with a wall(?), groundcover(?), or something of the like.

[alex_s]

a good ol' fashioned push mower might work

[MASTERMOWER]

a good ol' fashioned push mower might work

I hope this was a joke.

[alex_s]

I hope this was a joke.

partly, but i'd trust a push mower on a slope that steep over a rider or walk-behind, but yea, mostly a joke

[TinkerLawn]

I had this exact same problem with a customer's lawn (didn't pay near as much), so I decided to drop that account and let someone else try and deal with it. Guess what the guy who cuts it now uses a........ 21 inch push mower. Go figure.

The better solution would have been to sell some retaining walls and landscaping, although I don't think they had the money to pay for 3 retaining walls.