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Once a year mowing will take heavier gear than weekly; where your 50 inch cut garden tractor could handle 5 acres if you spent the time to get it regularly, IMHO it sure wouldn't handle the growth through July. You might see what kind of an hourly (or better, per acre) rate you could get from locals for mowing it off, IF a once a year mowing will be your only use for the equipment.

OTOH if you will have (and why wouldn't an enterprising guy like you indeed have) other uses for a 24-40 hp tractor, the cost of a mower to put on it wouldn't be too prohibitive. Plus you could use it for mowing around the ponds, paths through the woods, etc., more often.