Samuel Morse
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Nicola Tesla
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, I know this is an odd thing to get excited about, but we suburban Dads are serious about our yard work. WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rich
1 comment:
I'm delighted at your triumph via the Bag-a-Nut mostly because that's such an awesome name for a product. hah hah
What in the back yard needs domination now :-D
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