getting lines on lawns using flymo ?

good morning all

just wondered if any one owns a flymo pac a mow i got one last year in the sales and the reason i bought it was it has a roller to get lines with !.

thing is i have used it quite a few times now and can't seem to get any lines any one else have this problem with there mower ?

i have searched the net and followed how to do it cut all the way round on the edge and then go down turn around and come back up but still nothing !

does the grass have to be quite long does anyone know to get the lines or is my mower a pile of poo ?

any advice would be great

thanks for reading
lisa

 

Rollers usually have to be quite heavy, after all the lines are only from flattened grass. :rolleyes:

 

hi

the mower is quite heavy takes some lifting put it that way so i have no idea what im doing wrong !

thanks

 

Maybe you just need to look from the distance!! You're doing the right things, and you can get lines fromusing even a flymo like that, - unless maybe you're going up and back down the same row each time?????

That's all I can think of! You need to go up one row, and back down the next, etc, etc, etc.

 

thanks dendrobium think im going to let the grass grow a bit more than normal see if i can get anywhere doing it that way ! the grass is'nt growing quick enough for me normally grows like wild fire but seems alittle slow at the moment

as for the rows thats what i have been doing up one way down the other even printed a diagram off the net god how sad am i !!!

my husband thinks im nuts but i hate been unable to do something

thanks

 

I have a flymo that dosen't have a roller.
So whatI do is cut the grass, rake up the debris and then with a broom run up the lawn dragging the broom behind me.
Do the first line going up and the second coming down. You can tie a brick or something to add aa little weight to the broom head or not as the case may be. It works for me.

 

Fonzie,I have to mow the lawn I just have got no time to be dragging a broom or brick on the lawn. we have a very large lawn and it will take me all day to do this process. feel sure there is an easy way of achieving lines on the lawn.

 

fonzie thats made me chuckle i must say good idea though and thanks for letting us know,

i have filled the roller with lead weights from my dads fishing stuff and after leaving the lawn nearly 2 weeks got a slight stripe so need to let it grow alot i think to get stripes .

 

There is a book in Waterstones which I looked at yesterday. It's easy to find as it's in the Gardening section and the front of the book is covered in artificial turf.

I forget the name of it but you wont miss it and it is about decorative gardens with the main focus on how to make your lawn look good and particularly how to put stripes in it.

It's only a small book and you can probably just read it whilst your in the shop, no need to purchase it!

It mentions what type of blades to use and what settings to have your mower on.

Good luck!

 

thanks richtich will look out for that

 

Hi cattwoman25. just a note on your stripes. I stripe my lawn, with a different mower to you, but it really depends where the sun is or how the light shines on the grass. If you walk round your lawn, you may find the stripes are more obvious at the other end of the garden.
To mak the stripes more obvious, keep mowing the lawn in the same pattern several times, then mow from side to side occasionally,

 

thanks for your advice compostee i have been doing that keeping to the same way when mowing , i have even put loads of my dads lead fishing weights in the rear roller to get some more weight but still no stripes

im thinking i need to get a differant type of mower or move the sun :D

just a quick question if you can spare the time do you leave your lawn to grow quite a bit before mowing ? does that make a differance getting the stripes and also do you cut on the lowest cut or leave it a little higher ?

many thanks

 

Just wondering if you've got a very tough sort of grass, Cattwoman - I mean, seriously! :D If it's really resistant to being flattened, it'll just bounce up again, and you won't see stripes. It could be you have a grass that was chosen to be tough for kids playing football on it, or something like that.......

Even if it isn't, you could always say it was! :rolleyes:

 

hi dendrobium

you know i have thought the very same thing my self it does look like normal grass and it does go flat if i sit on it maybe i will have to sit and get someone to drag me up and down it :D :D :D im slowly giving up on stripes