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Baseball Diamond Lawn

July 28, 2008
Doug
Family Fun, Fatherhood

I’m trying to mow my lawn with a criss-cross pattern like a baseball field

baseball-field

A well mowed baseball field

Striped Lawn

My Lawn

It’s been a month, but I can’t make the criss-cross pattern stick.

Today, I tried mowing the lawn twice, once in both directions, but the second mowing pretty much erased all the lines from the first mowing. I’m ashamed of my failure, but I’m not giving up; I’m off to Google to see if I can find anyone else who has successfully turned their backyard into a baseball field . . . I do happen to know a professional baseball field maintenance worker (Dave do you think you can get me some base-line chalk?)

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2 Responses

  1. Pete  •  July 28, 2010 @4:56 pm

    What is the height of your mower? Maybe move the deck up a little higher. I don’t criss-cross (other than every other mowing), but my neighbor does and he has the diamond look.

  2. Gordon  •  August 1, 2010 @4:41 pm

    long time since your post but these patterns are accomplished through a heavy steel roller that is on the back side of the cutters. cutting in different directions makes the different shades. you can buy these to add to your mower if you wish. good luck and “play ball”.

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