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A Comprehensive Look At Commercial Equipment For Wadsworth, Ohio Residents

Why do commercial mowers cut so fast and the lawn looks so great compared to my residential tractor or zero turn mower in Wadsworth Ohio?

Commercial Grade Mowers

Commercial mowers can cost as much as a compact car. In our area the mowing season is usually 30 to 35 weeks depending on the weather we have here in Wadsworth Ohio. A full time lawn care provider usually cuts somewhere between 70 to 100 lawns in a week in Wadsworth OH. A commercial mower will mow around 3000 lawns in a single year. Compared to a homeowner mower of mowing around 30 mows in a year. So a commercial mower does up to 100 years worth of mowing in a year compared to a residential model. Their steel will be 3 to 4 times thicker over residential grade mower. All other components are made for harsh commercial settings to take the abuse they need to take to provide a reliable service for the contractor and their customers.

Engineering of equipment

Commercial mower manufactures spend countless hours of engineering and millions of dollars designing the perfect mower decks. They are able to design completely different decks compared to residential models because of the thickness of steel and engines that are installed on commercial mowers. Even when a residential grade engine has the same horsepower rating as a commercial engine. The commercial engine will always have a higher blade tip speed and torque rating. A higher blade tip speed simply spins the mower blades faster and this is called blade tip speed. Usually 2 to 3 times faster over a residential model.

Commercial equipment will often have heavier blades on verses a residential deck with more blades spinning in the same size mower deck. By having multiple blades versus one and having a higher blade tip speed allows the deck to have more suction. Which in turn cuts the grass clippings into smaller pieces, more suction to stand the grass up better, leave stripes in the grass and will leave a more level cut. More torque gives it the ability to power through thicker or taller grass and is always helpful when it come to fall leaf clean ups.

Commercial mowers use individual hydraulic pumps and motors for each drive tire to power it. The same hydraulics seen in all heavy duty industrial or construction equipment. This makes the equipment reliable, agile and very fast combined with the commercial grade engines. Due to the quality of construction, added safety features and specific engineering of commercial mowers they have perfected hill side stability very well. This allows the operators to safely climb hills, banks and ditches that a normal garden tractor or residential grade Zero-Turn could not or should not due to the risk of sliding or rolling over.

Residential vs Commercial Equipment

So in reflection it's just completely unreasonable for a homeowner to purchase commercial grade mower but a necessity for a mowing contractor to purchase. Typical residential grade mowers are designed to hold up for about 300 mows and never designed to be bounced around in a commercial environment or on a trailer. Residential mowers would not hold up for a long in a commercial environment but a homeowner with a commercial mower will be passing on the mower 10 generations down in their family!

Even though a commercial mower is expensive at first for a contractor they get their monies worth out of it eventually. This why they can be very reasonably priced to customers because of the longevity of the mower and speed. The maintenance intervals also help the contractor because they need maintained less frequently than a residential mower. Many times it is cheaper to hire a mowing contractor to mow your lawn than doing mowing yourself. Plus hiring a professional with commercial equipment will produce better results on your lawn.

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Tips For Watering Your Lawn In Canton, Ohio

Watering the Lawn

Tips on watering your lawn in Canton Ohio

You should be watering for 30-40 minutes per section 2-3 times per week in Canton OH. This gives your lawn a good
deep root watering every time. This allows the water to seep all the way down to the root system and promotes deep root growth. This also will ensure that the lawn is getting the proper amounts of nutrients that it needs. You only need to water a few times a week when you water for long periods. The lawn will take a longer period of time for the soil to dry out.

Busting Myths

It is a common myth that the more water is always better. This is not the case, the more water in your lawn the more issues you can be bringing to your lawn. By using so much water your lawn you run the risk of leaving moisture in the lawn encouraging fungal growth, or you could flood the lawn with water and wash away nutrients that the lawn needs to survive.

Especially in the Summer when the lawn can be under an enormous amount of heat stress in Canton Ohio. The last thing the lawn needs is our cultural practices adding to the stress and making more problems. For example, if your mowing the lawn with a mower with dull blades that are not cutting the lawn properly and will cause the blades of grass to become jagged and those jagged edges are what creates a better opening for the disease to enter into your lawn. Or mowing the lawn to short and scalping can cause browning and thinning of the grass making the lawn more of a target for lawn disease, weeds, and insect damage.

A full, thick lawn is always the best defense to all these lawn problems.
If you start to notice your grass suffering from heat stress you should focus on cultural practices. Make sure you have a proper and effective schedule for watering. Also, make sure the lawn is being mowed at the proper height and with sharp blades. If your grass does become dormant because of the weather and you begin to water, you need to then continually water the lawn regularly.

The lawn uses up its food reserve in the root system to become active again. You need to give it the time that it needs to regain that reserve and not cause further stress. Please do remember that a great healthy lawn takes time and patience. In some cases, it could take a lawn up to a month to start showing signs of “life” again and green up. It is greatly recommended to reseed your lawn after the drought and heat stress has subsided in the Fall months. For a wonderful landscape it is important to keep up with rejuvenating the grass, and keeping your lawn young to fight off the stresses a lawn will endure.

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