re: Large zero turn mowers have ruined the aesthetics of the modern home lawn

I still push mow my grass and it does look 1000x better than someone just cutting it with a ZTR. I sometimes cut diagonally, back and forth, making a nice stripped pattern.

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All the services use either giant zero turn or large walk behind mowers with huge cutting decks on them.

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You think A&M does this with a push mower to get those perfect lines

Lawnmowers aren’t designed to cut curves. When you are turning you are always pulling away from what you want to cut. If they wanted to cut straight lines they could. They just want to ride and make the grass shorter with all the curves and ugliness that goes with it.

Take your bitching to the Home & Garden Board

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You think A&M does this...

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No. Whoever is cutting it is putting an effort in to make it look good. They aren’t just riding and knocking it down.

Lupe is strictly forbidden from using anything but a push mower on my lawn.

My wife took a picture of me finishing my lawn this morning at around 9am (usually finish mowing by around 8:30am or so on sundays).

Of course

but my lawn guy would crush you

My hustler will now your yard in 15 minutes old man

You do realize that most southern Turf grasses don’t stripe nearly as well as northern grasses. And you can make just as good of stripes with a zero turn. In fact, their proportions look better than 21” stripes IMO.

The same people who bitch about this are probably the same ones who say the lawn guys are too expensive. So then they lower their prices. In turn, they need to cut more lawns. So they get a bigger mower and quality can suffer a little. So what is it, do you want a manicured lawn that looks like a dedicated homeowner did it? Or do you want it cheap because “anyone can cut grass.”