Richard
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So, when you're cutting a field/yard/other..... many times the field isn't square with straight sides, so you have to curve in/out along the edges to dodge aggressive branches.
Question.... do you FOLLOW that pattern throughout the cut so the field has wavering lines all the way through or, do you "waste" a round or two so you can cut the rounded part off to square up the line so you then leave the field looking nicer?
I'll admit, I'll spend the extra time to straighten out the edges. I figure I don't mind cutting (I enjoy it) and it really doesn't take that much more effort to change the cut pattern to give it a nicer look.
Maybe I can throw my mother under the bus?? As a teenager when I was cutting the back yard, (with a push mower), I once looked at it as having different sections. There was the section between the garden and the brick retaining wall, another section that was the hill, a large back flat section that could be split into two areas for ease of cut.
I took each section and simply pointed the clippings to the outside and made smaller & smaller turns creating a bit of a spiral appearance. I went to the next section and did same, then the next section.
When I was done, the yard had a bit of an appearance of those "crazy glasses" where you have that spiral into infinity.
My mother got home and went ballistic on me. To the point she said she wanted me to go BACK out there and recut the entire yard to ostensibly "erase" those circles and replace them with more straight lines.
I don't recall that actually happening but she really got bent out of shape over nothing on that, after all, a week later it will need cut again and I can fix it then!
So now, I figure if I'm going to spend three hours cutting a field, I may as well spend those three hours cutting in a fashion that at least makes it more pleasing to look at rather than a hodge-podge of cutting. Therefore, I square up the sides and generally try to make nice clean straight lines (with a flexwing, verses finish)
Who else is willing to admit to their being OCD enough to do that??!!
Question.... do you FOLLOW that pattern throughout the cut so the field has wavering lines all the way through or, do you "waste" a round or two so you can cut the rounded part off to square up the line so you then leave the field looking nicer?
I'll admit, I'll spend the extra time to straighten out the edges. I figure I don't mind cutting (I enjoy it) and it really doesn't take that much more effort to change the cut pattern to give it a nicer look.
Maybe I can throw my mother under the bus?? As a teenager when I was cutting the back yard, (with a push mower), I once looked at it as having different sections. There was the section between the garden and the brick retaining wall, another section that was the hill, a large back flat section that could be split into two areas for ease of cut.
I took each section and simply pointed the clippings to the outside and made smaller & smaller turns creating a bit of a spiral appearance. I went to the next section and did same, then the next section.
When I was done, the yard had a bit of an appearance of those "crazy glasses" where you have that spiral into infinity.
My mother got home and went ballistic on me. To the point she said she wanted me to go BACK out there and recut the entire yard to ostensibly "erase" those circles and replace them with more straight lines.
I don't recall that actually happening but she really got bent out of shape over nothing on that, after all, a week later it will need cut again and I can fix it then!
So now, I figure if I'm going to spend three hours cutting a field, I may as well spend those three hours cutting in a fashion that at least makes it more pleasing to look at rather than a hodge-podge of cutting. Therefore, I square up the sides and generally try to make nice clean straight lines (with a flexwing, verses finish)
Who else is willing to admit to their being OCD enough to do that??!!