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Doing the yard over the weekend & seeing some of the neighbors as well. What's your mowing method & any reason to it? The Enemy's gate is down. | ||
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Don’t bag your clippings. Go over it a second time if you have to. Side discharge is as good as mulching. Stripes looks like you care. Laps offer nothing in terms of time saving especially if you discharge into the middle. A customer sent me a picture of his lawn. He inadvertently got the neighbor’s lawn (to the right) in the photo. I fertilize both with the same product and rate at the same time. The neighbor to the right hired me because she wants her lawn to look like his. But she bags her clippings. She basically undoes everything I do and she won’t change.  | |||
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When I had a lawn I would mow it in stripes and then mow it perpendicular the next week. I didn’t mow in the same direction on consecutive weeks. | |||
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Prepared for the Worst, Providing the Best |
My yard is in three sections, and none of them is rectangular, or geometrically straight in any way. I also don't have a zero-turn. I make laps, and discharge out the side. Bagging would take forever. I have a job and a bunch of kids....ain't got time for that. I don't fertilize or use weed killer or anything, either. It's probably 50% crabgrass and dandelions. As long as it's short and not breeding bugs, I'm happy. It's supposed to be in the 90s all week, with no rain. The whole yard is gonna be dead by Saturday. At least I won't have to mow. | |||
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I chose other. Most times stripes occasionally laps and try to do diagonally to previous cut. Always mulch. | |||
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Starting in the center of the yard. First stripe right down the middle. you turn 90 degrees left coming back Now at the end another 90 but ! To the right of your first path. Right always goes to the North, Left always goes south. Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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Oddly enough, both. Stripes in the open front yard. Laps in the fenced-in back.
That's what I do, at least in the front. | |||
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And the second cut in an angled or 90 degree crosscut is what I do. My yard is a little bumpy and it really smooths out the look. If you have a heavy mower, it's also good to not run in the same tracks over and over. Try to mow only when it's dry. | |||
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I use both a zero turn and riding mower, both side discharge. I occasionally use the bagger on the rider for heavy, thick grass/weeds that sometime grow fast with lots of rain in Spring, as well as Fall for leaf pick-up. Bagger's off most of the time though. The ZTR mows the larger areas, I alternate each mowing using straight rows front to back, side to side, and diagonal. No striping roller. I generally run the rider around the perimeter then increasingly smaller laps discharging out. No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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Stripes, North to South, alternating every other Stripe. Next cutting 45° SE to NW, following cutting 45° NE to SW. Then start over next time. For reference, the street runs exactly North/South. Can't cut East to West due to the drainage ditch running along the street.  If you're goin' through hell, keep on going. Don't slow down. If you're scared don't show it. You might get out before the devil even knows you're there. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
No rain here since February. At least I don’t have to mow. | |||
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Each week I change it up, stripes across, stripes up & down, diagonal, diagonal the other way & every once in a while, I'll do thecircles. I bag most of the time, but will mulch once a month or so. Like guns, Love Sigs | |||
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NASCAR style You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier | |||
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I run around the yard, don't care, just get it done. | |||
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I do the first two laps blowing the clippings inward so they don’t go on the street or driveway. Then one week I do horizontal and the next week vertical. | |||
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shrinking square if that's a method? i do the perimeter in two laps with the clippings blowing into my property then I reverse and do ever shrinking squares to get to the middle. I just need it cut. not looking for fancy lines. lol Not minority enough! | |||
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We have a company that cuts the yard two different direction each time they cut. The pattern changes from week to week and it is well done. It is really nice when it is finished. One pattern is a zig zag and looks good. We have over 3 acres of grass right down to the Potomac River and a 48 zone sprinkler system to help keep the grass greener. | |||
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Do you dethatch it in the fall? | |||
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My God how does it support life at all? No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride. | |||
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