I turn the horses out. I've yet to take the time to observe any consistant pattern. 😉
I do a criss-cross pattern that runs at a 45 degree angle to the sidewalk. I used to raise and lower the mower deck on alternating lines, but thats takes too much time.
> I have a 4 week cycle.
>
> Back and forth
> Up and down
> bottom right to top left (N45W)
> bottom left to top right (N45E)
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> Start over again.
There is a man who knows how to mow a lawn!
This levels the lawn up, keeping you from piling those windrows up in the same spot.
I like to alternate directions for a nice striped pattern.
Rick
My back lawn is rutted east-west because it is about 15' wide and 55' long so lazy lawn mowers over the years always went east-west.
Doing a different direction every week should prevent wheel ruts.
Rats....I thought I would get at least one comment on my word. I seldom get to use it in discussions outside the topic of surveying.:pinch:
I like alternating N/S and E/W whenever I use the walk-behind mower. Haven't taken the trouble to go 45º....but wife has and it looks pretty nice. I also like going around the perimeter twice first. My lawn(s) is (are) big enough that it takes a long time to spend with a small mower, but almost too many obstacles to use the riding mower. When I use the riding mower, I go circular because it's too tight to try to turn 180 and go (bustrophonically). I usually take the walking mower first and go around the perimeter once and up against the trees and other obstacles when using the riding mower.
combination based on curved and straight gardens
always a little different though
> Rats....I thought I would get at least one comment on my word. I seldom get to use it in discussions outside the topic of surveying.:pinch:
Probably because you spelled it wrong.....;-)
Section numbering proceeds from the northeast (upper right) corner to the southeast (lower right) corner of each section. This wandering arrangement, which alternates right and left directions, may be called a boustrophedonic scheme if you feel like using a rare word in the right place. Boustrophedonic comes from the Greek for "as the ox plows," and in this case the scheme guarantees that (1) a section is always adjoined by its preceding and succeeding section and (2) a section can never be next to a confusingly numbered section in an adjoining township.
First job was caddying and then
I started working in the summers as a greens-mower. I'm strictly a 2 swath-wide back and forther.
Depends on how high the grass is and whether using a zero turn or not. I mow about 2 acres here and another 1-1/2 acre at my Mom's. Can do the back and forth with it pretty quick unless the grass is too high, then have to take it in a land (farmer talk for round and round. I usually wire that damn rubber deflector up so the grass can get out from under it if it's too high.
Maybe I'm crazy but, so help me, I like mowing the lawn.
I like the cris cross pattern 45 degrees to the street.
DK - I do really like mowing the grass, even sometimes in extreme heat.
"Life is too short for mowing lawns" to quote my brother
My wife cares for what is left of the pocket handkerchief we still still have 🙂
NM
I mow back and forth usually, because my grass is pretty thin and I sometimes lose my place if I try circular. But I haven't mowed in over a month, due to a lack of rain. For the most part we haven't had rain since May.
"Mow with the flow"
I have a ZTR, so in a circle at every terminus of linear path. 🙂
Start in the center and mow to the outside, Keeps the blade cutting without a bunch of turns, when I reach the outside I finish the corners.:-P
jud
I sit at the kitchen table and write a check for the gardener. Check goes in an envelope & gets taped to the kitchen door. He does a circular pattern for a couple of passes, then goes back and forth thereafter for both the front and back yards with a zero-radius turn mower.
about 700 sq ft total lawn - for decorative/pet purposes in a desert xeriscape yard. mow (elec corded mower) the edges first - random pattern each time to see if SWMBO notices the difference (maybe 50/50 on that).
What's a lawn? We only have some nicely landscaped area's and the rest is concrete. Our place we just bought in the AZ desert has some weeds, which will be sprayed with a vegetation killer until we do a desert landscape.
