Tempting as it is to cut the lawn in bare feet so you can feel where you have been I strongly recommend against it. After that safety mostly depends on not running over something else besides your feet. I suppose one cannot be absolutely certain about that, if you have a child used to leaving things like marbles or those steel Hot Wheels toys about you might like to have someone check before you send one through a window.
We have done a lot of mowing with a hand powered reel mower with very good success and they do make a superior cut but it takes time. they now have them in up to 18 inch widths now which helps, ours is only 14 inches and Janet still uses it. I now have a self propelled rear drive and rear bagger which pretty well would catch anything run over. My back yard is fenced which helps and I have raised flower beds on three sides. I sunk 'I' bolts at 8 foot intervals down two sides and pull thick ropes across hooking them with bungee cords to keep them more or less tight. I use this as a means of dividing the width into manageable distances and run back and forth between them marching them the length of the lawn weather I do it by hand or with the power mower. The front yards in my case are comprised of three, tiered like terraces about 20 feet by 50 at the top, something a little narrower, maybe 16 by 50 below the retaining wall and between the sidewalk and the road is a boulevard which the town cuts but not as often as I like which is about 20 feet. These narrower segments make running up and down a lot easier without the need of guide ropes. I should say that I haven't used ropes for ever but they do save me a lot of time and reduce the missed spots to about zero. the raised flower beds keep me from running over them and because I made them like curbs I can just run one set of wheels along and don't have much trimming to clean up after. Hope this is helpful. If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie ----- Original Message ----- From: Andy Borka To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:09 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Using Lawn mowers Is there a safe way a totally blind person can use lawn mowers? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
