How do professional baseball field mowers get those cool patterns on the field?

Answer 1

It's a process called "lawn striping." Read below.

Answer 2

Same way my gardener does it when he mows my lawn. As the mower moves across the grass, the blades are turning in a circular direction while the mower moves forward. This causes the grass to lay in a certain direction. On the next, adjacent pass, he is going in the opposite direction, so the grass has a different "grain."

On subsequent mowings, he mows in a different direction so as not to creat any permanent grain between mowings. Think: North/South, East/West, on one diaganal, on the other diagonal.

Answer 3

They use special mowers to cut the field in those patterns. The "patterns" that you see are grain, or the direction the grass is facing. Bright green is away from you, and dark green is toward you.

Answer 4

The way they cut the field causes the grass to stand up in different directions such as the checker pattern or stripe pattern.

Answer 5

By changing the direction of the mow & the height of the mower blade.

Answer 6

It depends on the type of grass. Sometimes, it just depends on the direction you roll over it while cutting. Sometimes they use a spray that darkens parts of the field. Other times the use rollers with a special fertilizer that darkens/softens the grass.

Answer 7

I love this question because my son-in-law is the head groundskeeper at ASU football and he has been to all the Super Bowls as well as Pro Bowl and all over the world painting fields. It is hand-painted and takes a lot of talent.

Answer 8

if you will notice when you mow your own lawn, the grass is bent one way going up the field and bent the other way as you mow down the field, It gives you a different angle and thus a different pattern,

Answer 9

The mower does it by riding on rollers, laying the grass down.

Answer 10

they used these stencils, formally known as polyhuyroculirc tripods. this guy i knew was assistant grounds keep for the seattle pilots, but didnt want a job with the mariners

Answer 11

there is more than one way to do so. the first is to use two diffrent types of grass the other is to cut the grass in two diffrent levels. little long and shorter.