On 17/03/2024 01:14, John Rumm wrote:
> The dedicated mowers are far more agile than the lawn tractor type
> designs. With mine you can't mow a adjacent strips in alternate
> directions. (a walking box pattern is better)

I just drive round in decreasing circles. I begin by doing the
perimeter, then step one width in, with each rotation, finally picking
up any bits I have missed. I cannot get the tractor onto it yet, it's
far too wet - not even solid enough to walk on - very late drying out
this year.

On 17/03/2024 01:14, John Rumm wrote:
> I have got mine stuck on nearly flat ground before! There is a patch of
> lawn that has a very slight dip that seems to stay waterlogged much
> longer than the rest, at it is difficult to get enough grip on that bit
> to even drive across it.

We have a similar patch here, just alongside the fake wishing well. The
wishing well was built, to hide a massive tree stump.

On 17 Mar 2024 at 12:16:58 GMT, "Harry Bloomfield Esq" <a@harrym1byt.plus.com>
wrote:

> On 17/03/2024 01:14, John Rumm wrote:
>> The dedicated mowers are far more agile than the lawn tractor type
>> designs. With mine you can't mow a adjacent strips in alternate
>> directions. (a walking box pattern is better)
>
> I just drive round in decreasing circles. I begin by doing the
> perimeter, then step one width in, with each rotation, finally picking
> up any bits I have missed.

That's essentially what I do, although in future I'm going to be stricter with
myself about doing the periphery, bits along next to walls, and a couple of
holes where sodding bodgers have dug up bees nests (I need to fill those in,
too).

> I cannot get the tractor onto it yet, it's far too wet - not even solid
> enough to walk on - very late drying out this year.

Yep, yep.

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