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Old 21-10-2008, 12:21 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
Eggs Zachtly Eggs Zachtly is offline
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Default Scarifier vs Verticutter vs Dethatcher

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Lawn Guy said:

Eggs Zachtly wrote:

If you're constantly beating the ground with "brushes, knives,
blades, wires, or some other spinning, whirling mechanism",
how the hell do you expect to do "minimal harm to grass"?


Well, since there are things called "scarifiers" and "verticutters" and
aerators that apparently do beat or cut or slice into the ground, with
the goal of working the top layer without chewing up the grass too
badly, then I'd say that it shouldn't be too hard to dislodge and remove
loose shit on the ground and between the grass blades without chewing up
the grass too much.


Ya. Ok. Let's see....

Who the hell said that those tools do their job "without chewing up the
grass too badly"? (Hint: you) Aerification should take place only twice a
year at most (once a year is plenty for a low-traffic lawn). De-thatching
as needed, probably once every 5-10 years. That process tears the hell out
of the turf. How the **** do you think you can get to the thatch, and
remove it, without going through the turf first?

Believe it or not dumbass, the turf needs time to recover after these
processes. That's why they aren't done on a weekly basis. You want a
machine that you're going to use a lot, doing the same damage. You'll have
a yard full of dirt in no time. With a nym like "Lawn Guy", you're pretty
****ing clooless about turf management, aren't you.

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