If you’ve ever turned on a baseball game and been amazed by the beautiful checkerboard field of lawn, you are not alone. Many people each summer spend week after week criss-cross cutting their lawn in hopes of duplicating that “Yankee Stadium” look. Well, don’t let another summer lawn cutting season pass in vain. This year, wow your neighbors, friends and family with the perfect checkerboard lawn.
Materials needed –
3-inch diameter PVC pipe
2 caps for the ends of PVC pipe
enough sand to fill the PVC pipe
2 brackets to attach PVC pipe to mower
lush, thick lawn
A couple of key factors must come in to play before you can achieve the perfect checkerboard lawn.
#1 Your lawn must be lush and thick. Thin, patchy lawns will not have a great presentation.
#2 Your lawn should be big enough to show off your hard work.
Keeping these things in mind, the rest is easy.
* Cap one end of the 3-inch PVC pipe with one of the two caps you purchased (try to find caps that will be easy to attach brackets to).
* Fill the 3-inch PVC pipe with sand leaving enough space at the end for the second cap.
* Cap the open end of the 3-inch PVC pipe with the one left over cap.
* Attach one bracket to each side of the lawnmower (from the back).
* Now attach the roller, full of sand, that you just made, to the back of the lawnmower via the brackets.
After attaching the roller to the lawnmower, you are ready to begin your checkerboard.
You must think of your lawn as a square. You want to start in the far-right bottom corner. You will mow in a straight line until you reach the end of the square. Then, turn the mower around so it is facing where you started and mow in a straight line parallel to your first cut. Continue this pattern until the square is finished. Way to go! You are halfway completed.
Now you’ll mow the square again. But, these cuts will be perpendicular to the first. This time you will start in the bottom left corner of your square and mow toward your original starting point in the bottom right corner. Once you reach the starting point, turn the mower around to face the bottom left corner and mow parallel to the cut you just made. Finish the square and you are finished the checkerboard.
For huge lawns you can certainly attach the roller to the back of your riding lawnmower, just be sure not to rush the cut or you will not get the best effect.
Aside from the grounds keepers for baseball fields across America, by using this technique, you will certainly have the most beautiful checkerboard lawn ever.
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