You have been programming too long when......

[Mick]

_{This has turned into one of the best threads I have seen on here in a long time}

[The Cathedral]

I always cut my grass dry, of course; I hate it when the Big Operator in the Sky accidentally flips on the flood coolant.

[Reko]

_{This has turned into one of the best threads I have seen on here in a long time}

[Guess_who]

I set my stepovers to 50% the width of my mower. Then when I get to the edge of the fence and I can't take another 50% cut because only 33% is left,  I just leave it. Maybe next week I'll change my stepovers to 42% and see if I can get closer to the edge.

[Guyinthedesert]

What I hate is having to make a spring cut

[BenK]

Every time I mow my lawn I run into bugs that slow down my progress.

[specv]

I change it up each time so i don't get uneven wear or surface finish, sometime zig-zag at 0, 45, 90, 135 or parallel spiral with clean corners ticked. Definitely cutting dry, cutting wet causes loading up.

[specv]

Oh and if i come back from being on vacation for a week I have to use depth cuts!

[The Cathedral]

I also make sure my servo drive motors and ways--i.e. arms and legs--are well lubed up with way oil--i.e. beer.

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

I say job it out.

[Del.]

I just set my mower for No Core and it's finished when I come back.

[Rstewart]

A multi-axis Deck would be quite helpful on not scalping the uneven surfaces on my Beautiful Bermuda Grass   

[Mic6]

I can't zig-zag since bushes are in the way, so I have to stick to one direction only, and negative stock on the sidewalk so I get complete cutting.

[CJep]

I beat my lawn into submission with the cheapest cutters in the MSC sale catalog,....

[P B]

The mower works great without crashing, but the multi axis line trimmer is not much good on the hedges and bushes (keeps freezing or crashing) mind you it is the beta version so hopefully the next release will be more reliable

[The Cathedral]

*in the check out aisle at Lowes with a new Husqvarna riding lawnmower*

 

Cashier: "Now, you have the option to buy a two year maintenance package for this lawnmower. If anything goes wrong, we'll update it for free, and you get to try out next years model early!"

Me: "Pfft. I don't need that, that's just a waste of money. I can fix it myself, and I'll have this thing for years, it already does everything I want."

 

*goes home, starts cutting grass, lawnmower works fine then suddenly pulls a hard right and crashes into a wall*

*shuts down and restarts lawnmower*

*CANNOT FIND VALID LAWNMOWER DEFINITION*

[Newbeeee™]

^{For those of you having problems with the new HS paths, you probably have incompatible grass.}

^{If this is the case, you'll find that second best will cut, so just use a standard 2D zigzag.}

^{Sometimes there is an odd area which won't clean up - if this is the case, just think outside the grass box, and use the X+ TPath sketcher. Nice and easy and gets 'er done!}

[CJep]

I'm looking at a Billy-1500 as a replacement for the current machine,..

Anybody got a post for Taog control?

[metalmansteve]

The longest running repeat order in history and I'm starting to get sick of it

[JAMMAN]

Hilarious, I was cutting my lawn yesterday and was thinking I was running V9 a pocket toolpath with about 80% stepover. Then I read this thread.

 

I was having a problem with chip ejection, sometimes the cutter would get loaded up and throw the machine into emergency. Back the cutter off, start it back up and resumed the program. I did lower the feed rate and gave it a M00 occasionally so I could brush the chips out of the way.

 

My next door neighbor cuts at 45 degrees. Silly I don't see the advantage.

[The Cathedral]

My next door neighbor cuts at 45 degrees. Silly I don't see the advantage.

 

Surface finish.

[The Cathedral]

*Finishes mowing front yard, moves to mow back yard, error message pops up*

 

LAWNMOWER HAS CHANGED

The blade and engine in this operation do not match the blade and engine specified for the selected lawnmower

O   Update lawnmower and all yards that use the lawnmower

O   Create a new lawnmower. This will create a new blade with a new blade number

O   Cancel all lawnmower changes

[Reko]

*Finishes mowing front yard, moves to mow back yard, error message pops up*

 

LAWNMOWER HAS CHANGED

The blade and engine in this operation do not match the blade and engine specified for the selected lawnmower

O   Update lawnmower and all yards that use the lawnmower

O   Create a new lawnmower. This will create a new blade with a new blade number

O   Cancel all lawnmower changes

ROFL!

[K2csq7]

I had to resort to surface rough plunge then surface finish parallel yesterday....

(went on vacation for a week)

[Zoober]

This is one instance where I'm comfortable telling the mexican operator (wife) "have at it... If you scrap it, we can just rework it".