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This Amazing German Lawnmower Attachment Can Cut Around Poles and Fenceposts

I don't want this. I NEED this

By Rain Noe - August 9, 2018

in Object Culture

Mowing lawns is a straightforward process, until you get to a tree or a fencepost. You can only get so close with the mower, and the remaining scrub must be removed with a string trimmer, which is time-consuming.

So how do well-funded landscaping professionals tackle this problem? With German manufacturer Duecker's amazing Leitpfostenmaeher ("guide post mower"):

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Here's a longer cut so you can enjoy the zen of it all.

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Grzegorz Tatkowski

6 years ago

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Hah, to me it looks like those white and black posts are about to give every time it "runs" into one. I wonder what percentage of posts that this machinery encounters it brings down?

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Michael Medlock

6 years ago

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This brings to mind a specialized machine I saw in Germany in the late 1970s. It was used to wash the road crud off the black and white markers shown in the first video. The operator would lower a washing device over the marker, scrub, release, raise and move to the next one. Don’t know if they still use them.

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Jay Davis

6 years ago

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I can't be the only one who finds this funny.

We created a machine to deal with the man made items we put into the environment.

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  I think about this all the time.We need to design our homes so that they can be cleaned more easily by robots. That's why we only have the Roomba.
  
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