how can I stripe my lawn like they do baseball fields?

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I have a regular walk behind mower

Answer 1

Yes, they are "Manicuring" the turf, not "cutting" it in different directions but, they also have the "right" equipment to do the job, and without it, it's nearly impossible to get the same results. Professional sports field groundskeepers use "reel" mowers to artistically design the patterns and pictures you see on the ball field. The mower consists of a "bedknife" and vertical cutting blades. The cutting process is just like using "scissors". The blades of grass come into contact with the bedknife and then, the reel blades "shear" them off with a clean cut. The main reason you get the stripping patterns is because there is a heavy "roller" at the back of the mowing deck. After the grass is cut, this roller "flattens" down the grass to lay in the direction of the cut. Depending on how the light reflects off of the turf, is what is giving the light and dark patterned stripes you see. If you are looking at a dark stripe, the mowing direction was coming at you. If you see a light stripe, the mower was cutting away from you. In order to do this to your own lawn you need to have a "reel" mower. They do make rollers that attach to the back of rotary mowers, but they don't work as well, and are a pain in the butt. Here is a couple links explaining the process a little better, along with pics of the "Locke" landscape "reel" mowers. They can cut turf anywhere from 1/2" to 3'' high. The mowers used for ball fields and golf courses, can cut down to .032", very short indeed.
http://www.lockemower.com/Information/ReelMowing.aspx
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/stories/2001-06-27-ballpark-designs.htm
http://www.lockemower.com/Products/WalkBehindMower.aspx
http://www.lockemower.com/Products/Greens/GT-122.aspx

**Billy Ray**

Answer 2

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how can I stripe my lawn like they do baseball fields?
I have a regular walk behind mower

Answer 3

Your brother's right - the blades of grass in the lighter stripes are tilted away from you (so you see more of the length of the blade), the darker ones towards you (so you see all the ends of the blades). If they were different heights, the ball would bobble over the outfield. They do the same for many different sports played on grass - cricket, rugby, rugby league, soccer... PS It does mess up a little by the end of the game, but not too noticeably - rugby and league are much tougher on the grass than baseball, but the pattern is still visible!

Answer 4

You'd have to attach a roller to the front or back of the lawnmower to get those stripes...it bends the grass over and causes the pattern you describe. Sunlight hitting the grass at different angles causes the effect. Friend of mine did it with his lawnmower and I use to do lawn care with big riding mowers that had the rollers on them to adjust for cutting height. Push mowers with rollers have the same effect also. Pretty cool what kind of patterns you can come up with.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

All they are doing is cutting the grass in different directions.
This causes kind of a grain in the way the grass lays. So when you look at it, it looks like different shades of green.