Yall mow your lawn in straight lines or by cricling?

[SwimModSponges]

Or not necessarily circling, but like, mowing the periphery then spiraling inwards? 

[André Toulon]

I give this fat dude 30 bucks

[SwimModSponges]

Yeah, our next door neighbor has a lawn care service and with the good neighbor discount he gives us it'd be stupid not to hire him, but still.

When you mow, do you go like this

or like this?

[abomination]

Follow the lay of the land. 

[SwimModSponges]

Define perimeter, circle inwards.

That's me.

Oh, and the mowed grass the mower shoots out goes towards the unmowed grass, so when I pass through I can mow it again for more efficient breakdown.

[Sofa King Kule]

1 hour ago, SwimModSponges said:

Or not necessarily circling, but like, mowing the periphery then spiraling inwards? 

I haven't mowed a lawn in thirty five years and hope I never do again.

I don't see why anyone goes for that chore.

[Rogue_Alphonse]

Circling the property, but in a way that the front yard looks like straight lines.

Hank Hill Machine life.

[Raptorpat]

I kind of wing it, but generally start with the perimeter with an inconsistent use of straight lines and breaking off quadrants due to trees/bushes etc.

[SwimModSponges]

Oh-ho, we got us a quadrant man over here.

Fancy.

[cyberbully]

2 hours ago, SwimModSponges said:

Yeah, our next door neighbor has a lawn care service and with the good neighbor discount he gives us it'd be stupid not to hire him, but still.

When you mow, do you go like this

or like this?

I mean....I don't, if you're asking how I mowed grass when I was 15, I just did whatever. Little squares, straight lines....some horizontal, some verticle, just cut until it's gone.

[1pooh4u]

Don’t and never did.  Never had a lawn I was responsible for, or really a lawn at all. 

[SwimModSponges]

Y'all're missing out.

 

[JehutyNinja]

Definitely mowing the periphery and then spiraling inward.

Honestly though, fuck mowing.

[Rogue_Alphonse]

3 hours ago, SwimModSponges said:

 

I do have to say... in a space that small, mowing in a circle is just stupid, especially on a zero turn. Hit the perimeter and then do straight passes.

[SwimModSponges]

Yeah IDK wtf that dude's doing, but I couldn't find any pictures demonstrating what I was actually talking about and that looked like the closest.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

Perimeter, spiral inward.

[Seight]

Spiral inward, but if I think I don't have enough gas or it might rain I make little smaller blocks first if I'm mowing the backyard.

[//>wagz./]

//> circular rectangle I have a weird shaped lawn ./

[Vamped]

I just plan to pay some kids to make it look decent

My stepdad cuts the lawn in a circle around the tree in their yard. I just look out of my balcony and watch the people across the street pay professional lawn services to maintain their pristine properties 

[stilgar]

I don't. 

[PhilosipherStoned]

I do squares strating at the edge until the square is small enough to make that seem tedious. Then I do straight lines back and forth. 

[SwimOdin]

The front yard I try to do it differently every time, because I get bored doing it the same way.  The backyard is always spiral.

 

I got a Ryobi battery powered mower a couple months ago, I fucking love it.  I will never have a gas mower again.  Fucking carburetors.

[helpme]

Every other time it gets switched 

I'm always stuck with checkerboard pattern in the end 😅

[bnmjy]

I dunno, some landscaping company mows my apartment complex's lawns.

Gonna go nabs here and mention that the American ideal of every house having a lawn is very bad for the environment and should die, especially if one lives in a dry region prone to droughts.

[SwimOdin]

Any of you have corner lots? I have a corner lot. I have one of the bigger yards in my subdivision, which makes no sense, since I’m a ginger.

 

I digress, cutting a corner lot sucks, because you have a “side yard” you do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with, but you still have to cut it.

[Dr. MrsGirlfriend]

Our city finally passed a sign up for no mow May. Otherwise we get fined if it is too high. We purposefully left a section at the far end of the backyard unfenced (Sponges man shed/fish farm/guinea pig slaughter house) area that we do not mow at all. I like to leave that untouched for the wildlife and pollinators.

Front yard and fenced in part of yard are only done for city sake and clear area for dogs/kids to play. 

Plus I hired neighbor dude so that Sponges weekends off can be for getting bigger projects done or letting him mostly relax after a long ass rough week. Plus, hell I like supporting small business when I can. 

[//>wagz./]

8 hours ago, SwimOdin said:

Any of you have corner lots? I have a corner lot. I have one of the bigger yards in my subdivision, which makes no sense, since I’m a ginger.

 

I digress, cutting a corner lot sucks, because you have a “side yard” you do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with, but you still have to cut it.

//> I have a large corner lot. used to have 16 80ft pine trees along the fence line,  the sandy happened,  maintenance of my yard is bullshit ./

[wacky1980]

a couple laps around the perimeter, then pattern the rest. sometimes north/south passes, sometimes east/west, and sometimes diagonal. and follow that up with the string trimmer to get the straggler blades.

i had a side job in college as a groundskeeper for a bed & breakfast (i was plowing the innkeeper so it made sense to just work there too) and the owners were very particular with their lawn. i had to mow that 2-acre lot with an old push mower twice a week, and i could never use the same pattern twice in a row. it always looked nice when i was done, so the method just kinda stuck after that.

[Sofa King Kule]

Curly, Larry and Moe the lawn.

[lupin_bebop]

Straight lines. I don’t have a riding mower. Straight lines are more efficient, anyway. 

[SwimModSponges]

So the lawn guy was here yesterday while i was at work,  looks like he does in fact cut in straight lines.

[Chapinator_X]

If it’s the push mower, it’d be straight lines in a zigzag motion. 

But if we’re talking the ride mower, it’d be circling around in a square shape. 

[Real_AirCooledGirl]

I've mowed circularly.

What the hell is the point of mowing, anyway? Or even having a lawn? Just have a natural meadow instead, with native plants!

[resurrected]

2 hours ago, Real_AirCooledGirl said:

I've mowed circularly.

What the hell is the point of mowing, anyway? Or even having a lawn? Just have a natural meadow instead, with native plants!

This.

[Rogue_Alphonse]

On 7/4/2021 at 1:21 PM, SwimOdin said:

The front yard I try to do it differently every time, because I get bored doing it the same way.  The backyard is always spiral.

 

I got a Ryobi battery powered mower a couple months ago, I fucking love it.  I will never have a gas mower again.  Fucking carburetors.

YOU CAN GET FUEL INJECTION NOW DAMMIT

[Rogue_Alphonse]

On 7/3/2021 at 6:23 PM, SwimModSponges said:

Yeah IDK wtf that dude's doing, but I couldn't find any pictures demonstrating what I was actually talking about and that looked like the closest.

Btw, I got this mower for free and a year later had to put a new plug in it and adjust the idle. Otherwise, I haven't touched anything on it.

[SwimModSponges]

Mowing guy mowed frickin' slantways today.

Blew my freaking mind.

 

[Neko]

Apartment life!

[GuyBeardmane]

So I started mowing today and I thought about this thread, because my mowing is all fucking over.  I try to do lines, but I kind of section my yard so instead I wind up doing boxes.  Like, a squared off spiral.

[SwimModSponges]

Doing lines while mowing is a recipe for disaster.

[lupin_bebop]

21 hours ago, SwimModSponges said:

Doing lines while mowing is a recipe for disaster.

I……I…..I’m….Shit, that’s good.