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Stripes for a roller-less Honda ?

ZappaZappa Posts: 17
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Hi folks

I am new here. We just bought our first home and all of a sudden I have become interested in having a very nice garden! The house I have moved into has a decent little lawn at the back, good condition. 

My uncle kindly donated me his old Honda petrol lawnmower. I gave it a test and it works well. However, it has no roller on the back, so I don't have any nice stripes to look at when I am finished image

I cant afford a shiny new lawnmower just yet, is there anything I can do to get these nice stripes? 

I emailed Honda to see if they sell any attachments, so far no reply. 

Any help would be much appreciated. I am very much a gardening newbie!!

 

 

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  • Jolly Gary the GardenerJolly Gary the Gardener Posts: 133

    I have a hover mower and I managed to get stripes with it over the last 13 years.I walk down one side of the lawn, move the mower across by one width then walk backwards without turning the mower around. I think that the stripes are caused by the front and rear body of the mower brushing across the grass  obviously with a conventional mower the blades only cut in one direction so you would not be able to walk backwards with it. Saying that if you adjust the blades slightly lower then maybe the action of the blades cutting in one direction may have the same effect as if it had been rolled.

    enjoy your garden with or without stripes

  • FirecrackerFirecracker Posts: 256

    If you look on youtube there are some videos on how to adapt a 4wheeled mower to get lines. They add a weight at the rear of your mower that flattens the grass as you mow. Hope you can find the videos, in the U.S. They use wheeled rather than roller mowers.

  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,352

    I like stripes too - so I have had a mower with a roller for the last 20 years. Before that, however, I had electric hover mowers & I did find that up and down mowing as described above produces a form of striping - just not as good or as pronounced as a roller mower makes.

    I like the stripes because they seem to make even a small lawn seem larger - especially if mown on the diagonal image

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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