Ground Work, Lawn Care

5 Essential Tools To Maintain Your Lawn

Considering robot mowers are an add on to help maintain your lawn, tractor mowers are some of the most common ways of cutting grass but require other tools to keep the perfect lawn we can discuss some equipment to help boost the look of your lawn, taking into consideration you’re cutting your lawn with a tractor mower.

  1. Push or self-propelled mowers or essential paired with a tractor for cutting the areas the tractor struggles to get around such as tight flower beds, small spaces and around obstacles, there a nice touch to speed the process up.
  2. Strimmers / Brushcutters are essential for lawn edges and borders as no mowers really fully reach the edges and these machines are perfect for that complete lawn look, though they require getting used to there incredibly quick to pick up and it’s a simple quick process making sure you have the right strimmer for your lawn size is essential to leaving life handier for yourself
  3. Blowers, whether handheld or backpack these are essential for blowing grass clippings away that are produced from mowers firing clippings here and there as well as clippings from strimming, it just tidies up your nice concrete or tarmac yard/drive. Don’t forget there great for blowing leaves away or into a pile to be collected during autumn time as well as the STIHL SH86 can both blow and vacuum if you wanted to blow the leaves into a pile and vacuum them into a bag for easy collection and disposing off.
  4. Brushes and shovels are self-explanatory and are just used for tidying up leaves small branches and grass clippings here and there.
  5. Hedgecutter, though not essential in keeping the grass perfect, if you have hedges or larger plants/bushes it’s a great piece of equipment to add the extra touches to the look off your overall lawn by keeping these areas trimmed and tidy.
  6. Lawn Edgers, these are the most complicated and hardest to use tools in the list and require extra caution, correct set up and patience to master. Haven’t said that if you can get onto them there the ultimate touch for keeping edges clean and tidy especially around flower beds paving, lawn borders/edges and brick where grass can easily grow up and over.

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