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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 - Aug 09
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"):
Here's a longer cut so you can enjoy the zen of it all.
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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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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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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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.!Report as spam-
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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The original rapid prototyping
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