Usually a cigar, hard to clench for 2 hours on a zero turn mower. But I have some clench-friendly basket pipes for cuttin hay. During those times I usually go for a bulk VA. Something like Yorktown, Three Friars, 515, something in that realm.
Whats Your Lawn-Mowing Blend?
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Sutliff Burley Delight 212. Sold in bulk at a reasonable price and it's actually quite good. Another good choice is Low Country Natural Va/Bur. It goes for 20 bucks a pound and is surprisingly good. I use MM Diplomats. The bowl is larger than a Legend and the lacquer finish wipes clean.
To ask me to smoke and walk at the same time is hoping for the impossible.
Codger blends for me (SWR & PA as primary). But, he’ll, they are my primaries for most tasks and days. The “fancier” types are mostly used by me as occasional “parfait” toppings on the top of a codger blend anyway.
I haven't mowed a lawn since the 90's. Wife said the lawn looks like the yard markers on a football field after I finished mowing, so I sat back and watched her do the mowing smoking some OTC blend with a cold brew. Now we're both too old to mow the lawn so we hired a company to do it. I still sit back with an OTC and a cold brew and watch them.
I’m with you on the mowing. Zero turn and 2 hours = a cigar or 2 depending on size.
Paid my way through college working for a landscape maintenance company. I swore when I made it big I'd never mow a yard again. So big I am by my own definition and I smoke anything at hand while watching the lawn crew do my bidding.
Haven't cut grass for fifty years, but if I were to now, it'd be a riding mower and I would smoke Margate in a half bent Peterson.
Years ago we bought our property which was a big overgrown mess with not a lot of lawn and a bunch of box elders that I promptly got rid of. I wanted a big yard. After 17 years of mowing a lawn that takes over an hour on a 60 inch zero turn, I long for the days of no mowing. I seldom smoke on my mower since it requires both hands.
Well, anything but a cob! And no calabashes or meers because I like them too much.
I like a cob incase it falls and get mowed over. No big loss
I can’t let my grass grow that long because the feral cats sneak up and munch on song birds at the feeder. My neighbor cuts his grass as short as a golf green and it turns brown. He got arrested for DWI driving down the center of the road to the gas station. The V & T law classify a ride on as a motor vehicle .
Wait a ding dang second here! Mike needs our advice? I’m confused, that a man of such high smoking prestige, needs our lowly little minion’s advice. LOL 
P.S. Just playing, my yard is also all dirt, don’t do any mowing... LOL
P.S. Just playing, my yard is also all dirt, don’t do any mowing... LOL
I smoke whatever is in my pipe at that moment... But I have a landscaping company do the mowing and all the rest of the grounds.
I pretty much always smoke a pipe while I mow (push mower), and it’s always just whatever blend I currently have on-hand. I’m pretty sure my neighbors all laugh at me. I see them smiling as they drive by and wave. I guess I do appear like a bundle of inconsistencies: I smoke a pipe (an old thing) while mowing with an electric mower (a new thing).
Kentucky Blue and Fescue mostly but a lot of broadleaf weeds as well. I smoke carter hall though.
I may be weird, but I don't like smoking the pipe while doing other activities. Guess I just don't multi-task very well. I don't even like smoking it while I'm out for a walk. My preference for pipe smoking is sitting on the patio and puffing on it while I contemplate life. I might have some music going in the background, but that's about the only distraction I can handle while smoking.