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Multiple blades at different levels leave a striped cut when you mow creating a zen sand garden effect. (see link)
The otherwise mind numbingly boring chore of mowing the lawn becomes a challenge to your artistic expression. Every mowing would be different. One month a study in geometric forms, the
next, a free flowing wavy line affair like Van Gough's Starry Night. The stripes could be turned off with a switch of course so you could have flat areas when necessary.
Imagine the wife saying "Wow, you really outdid yourself mowing the lawn today!"
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http://life-desire.com/?page_id=55
Ignore the new age dribble, just look at the picture [doctorremulac3, Jul 12 2014]
A simple design
http://fineartameri...en-dirk-ercken.html
Picture this in grass, not sand obviously. [doctorremulac3, Jul 12 2014]
What it might look like in green
http://www.aliexpre...100/1472795332.html
[doctorremulac3, Jul 12 2014]
Zen_20Garden_20Lawn_20Mower
[xenzag, Jul 12 2014]
Sort of baked
http://www.homedepo...pla&ci_src=17588969
Just one big stripe, but sort of baked [doctorremulac3, Jul 13 2014]
This guy neds your help.
http://1.bp.blogspo...f1cX3Wo/s400/12.jpg
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jul 13 2014]
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Re. the first link, [doc]... What possible sequence
of events could have led you to that page as an
illustration of a Japanese sand garden? |
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(Incidentally, Japanese sand gardens are crap. Paid
a fortune. Thing never grew.) |
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Lawnmowers have a single blade that spins around in a circle.. Unless you're going to have a different kind of blade you want to posit, this idea isn't going to work, however fun it is. |
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No they don't. Lawnmowers have a cylinder of
helical blades, with its axis horizontal. It would
therefore be possible (though not necessarily
desirable) to have different cut heights across its
width. |
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Make it computer controlled and adjustable, to
actually render "starry night" in grass. |
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//Paid a fortune. Thing never grew.// |
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That was the funniest and most awesome joke eer written. Or I'm drunk.
Can't tell |
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I used to keep a zen sand garden of sorts in the kitchen for our cat. |
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Anyhoo, I'm thinking about ten little blades that can be arranged together on a flat plane for a flat cut, angled for pyramid shaped furrows like the sand garden example or alternated in height for a straight up striped look. Since they're all separate, you could have them move up and down out of sync with each other to get a wavy effect. |
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Alternately, I wonder if you could just make some little dohicky that presses the grass into shape before the single rotor cuts it. That could almost be retrofitted onto a regular lawnmower. |
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Redundant..... (see link) I got my first invite unto the BBC
genius programme with this. Think it was about the third
idea I posted on HB. |
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Ok, you've got the zen thing, but my favorite part now is the individual blades going up and down for a wavey look. Either that or the attachment thingy that pushes the grass down and up to create patterns. |
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It's evolving. Plus with mine you don't have to understand what "zen" is. |
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Did you actually make one? I'd love to see examples of lawns cut like this. Did it work? |
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I think [Voice] was drunk. But it was sort of funny. |
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Wobbly offset wheels would tilt the lawnmower to and fro while you pushed it giving a wave effect! These could be easily added, even slipped onto existing wheels! |
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Could this device be adapted to make crop circles? |
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//Lawnmowers have a single blade that spins around
in a circle// |
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But the individual grass blades can be pressed down
or straightened up by jets of air then cut, or not cut
accordingly. |
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Just hire the Crop Circle makers. |
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