World's Greatest Invention!

The Wright Brothers.

Samuel Morse

Alexander Graham Bell

Guglielmo Marconi

James Watt

Nicola Tesla

Thomas Edison

Amateurs!

The World Greatest Inventor is the guy who invented this ...

It's called a Bag-a-Nut. If you click on the link to the left, you can watch a video made by the guy who invented it ( James Dudley ( May he rest in peace. ) ). It was original designed to pick up nuts, but the website said it could also be used to pick up sugargum balls ( "spikey balls" ). These "spikey balls" are the things I complained about in this post and in the "C" section of this post. Each late Winter and early Spring, I break my back using a rake and a large dustbin to get all these sticky balls off my backyard lawn and into collection bags. This, year I finally decided to try something different. I did a little research online and ordered the Bag-a-Nut. I put the Bag-a-Nut together on Sunday, and then took it out for a test drive.

To my surprise, it actually worked! It worked much better than I could have ever imagined. You can see how happy I was by looking at the photos below.

The photo below will give you an idea of what I'm up against each year. These little spikey balls tend to stick to the ground, so I used to have to rake the same spot about 10 times to even get half of the spikey balls to move. Now, I can pick up almost all the spikey balls in a given spot, just by rolling the Bag-a-Nut over the area once. If click on the photo below and look closely, you'll see a whole bunch little brown things ( the spikey balls ) on the ground. You'll notice that that there is a much higher density of the balls on the right side of the photo ( there are a lot of trees on that side of the yard ), but you'll also notice a section of turf ( running from the foreground of the photo to the background ) just to the right of center where you can barely see any spikey balls at all. That piece of turf without the spikey balls is the result of the Bag-a-Nut machine. I rolled the Bag-a-Nut over the area just once, and it picked up almost all the spikey balls along the path. This is going to make my life SOOOOOO much easier each March.

Yeah, I know this is an odd thing to get excited about, but we suburban Dads are serious about our yard work. WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rich