OT: Wrong pets?

[Rod Speed]

Doesn't need to be huge.

[Rod Speed]

Useless when there are trees in the lawn.

Wrong, as always.

[hah]

[snip]

It's easier on a perfectly flat and round lawn, with no obstacles.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I still don't find a problem on my lawn with trees. Try thinking which direction is best to move in.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

I know nothing about how engines work. Motors however require no knowledge. They just run when you turn them on.

[Rod Speed]

Wouldn't work with my backyard because of where the trees are.

[Rod Speed]

And yet you don't have an electric car.

[rbowman]

He prefers a gasoline powered car and attributes the motive power to magic like the perfect 21st century consumer.

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

How long have you been using a corded mower? How hard was it to get it right the FIRST time?

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Because you can plug a mower in. You can't do that with a car, so it needs batteries. It's the batteries that make electric cars unusable. Short range, slow charging, expensive battery replacements. Until we develop a new battery technology, they are simply unworkable.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

All my life, and about 30 seconds. It's not rocket science, only dogs get their leads caught round trees.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Draw it and explain.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Most lawns around here would be silly to use a ride on mower on. You'd spend most of your time turning.

[Rod Speed]

150' long, 15' and 20' wide, half of each width. Trees about 50' and 30' from each end, well out from the sides. Because its long and thinnish, the only sensible way of mowing it is along the long axis, from either side ending up in the middle because I don't use a catcher and mulch the cuttings.

[Rod Speed]

Yep, slums have very small lawns.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

No, it's just an overcrowded country. Is it not true that the population of Australia is equal to Scotland?

[Rod Speed]

Nope, five times the population, actually. And the bulk of our population is in the band from BrizVegas down the coast to Melburg and across to Adelaide.

[rbowman]

I vary my cutting patterns between the long way and diagonal in either direction. Of course, all I know about lawn care is what I read on the internet. Mowing lawns in my golden years isn't something I planned on but the neighborhood kids aren't exactly reliable.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Inadequate description, but I see no reason you can't mow back and forth between each tree then go to the next gap.

[Jimmy Wilkinson Knife]

Lawn care? What's that? I just cut it when it's long.