ball park pattern

   / ball park pattern #11  
Striping from above. Not the best photo - I used my iphone This year, I'll use a better camara image-1095538949.jpg

My neighbor demonstrates how NOT to fertilize. He did make a nice race track pattern!
 
   / ball park pattern #12  
I use to have a toro 60 inch commercial zero turn, I set the deck at 3inches and mow the same way everytime. Blade tip speed actually makes a big difference I did not use a stripping kit, but they do work.
 
   / ball park pattern #13  
Striping from above. Not the best photo - I used my iphone This year, I'll use a better camara <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/lawn-care-landscaping/368220-ball-park-pattern-image-1095538949-jpg"/>

My neighbor demonstrates how NOT to fertilize. He did make a nice race track pattern!

I am with the neighbor. I don't understand why people fertilize their lawns. Then it grows, which requires mowing, a significant amount of fertilizer and herbicide runoff is from excessive treatment of lawns.
 
   / ball park pattern #14  
I am with the neighbor too. Last thing I want is to extend the mowing season and have to do it more frequently. I hate mowing grass. I just hate mud and erosion more. That's the only thing keeping me from using round up as my mower :)
 
   / ball park pattern #15  
I am with the neighbor. I don't understand why people fertilize their lawns. Then it grows, which requires mowing, a significant amount of fertilizer and herbicide runoff is from excessive treatment of lawns.
I fertilize mine in hopes of grass growing faster than weeds. I also put on the sprinklers during dry weather to make it grow more. I like to mow with my Ferris mower also so it gives me something to do each week. I think my Ferris is set up to strip but I don't pay much attention to that, just try to get around all my plants and trees. I keep saying I want to count all the stuff I have to mow around and yesterday while weed eating around the pond, I counted 35 pine trees within 100 feet of me which doesn't even get to the "lawn" where all the fruit trees and flowering shrubs are planted.
 
   / ball park pattern #16  
I can get decent stripes without rollers or anything special just from mowing back and forth ^ v ^ v. That's the way I was taught to mow when I was a kid. It requires extra time spent turning around at the end of each swipe, but it does look nicer. Now a days I do the roundy round, it's more efficient. Less time, Less gas :thumbsup:
 

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