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mndsm
mndsm UberDork
6/4/12 5:47 p.m.
mad_machine wrote:
mndsm wrote:
Tom Suddard wrote: Just try everything, like a real race track. I can mow my lawn in 40 minutes (my dad takes an hour and a half) and I do most of it on 2-3 wheels. Just gradually edge toward the limit, don't try to go as fast as possible immediately.
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I have this image now

Precisely.

T.J.
T.J. PowerDork
6/4/12 10:11 p.m.

In reply to Duke:

Duke, your turn is on the wrong plane. You mean to tell him to execute a Williamson turn not a procedure turn.

I've been experimenting with the spirial out technique. Works great in the back yard. I do a few rows all around the property first, then I drive like Tootle to somewhere near the middle of the lawn and make the tightest circle I can do. Then I just spiral out until I hit the edges. I have a big enough yard that this seems to be a decent way to do it since there isn't any time waster doing the turns at the end of the rows. I can get about 75% of the back yard done that way. For the front yard I do whatsome else already described which is to make a turn at the end of the row, leaving a uncut row. Work across the front in that s-like pattern then reverse it to pick up the uncut rows.

My mower has 7 speeds and I insist on doing as much as my lawn in 6th and 7th as I can. If I only had a limited slip...I get too much wheelspin on tight fast corners. Lots of body english to keep things moving along.

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