Dwayne Hanuszak liked the stripes the rollers on the deck of his old mower used to leave on his lawn. He felt the stripes gave it a professional look, like a golf course.

“I spend a lot of time cutting my grass and thought I might as well make it look a little more interesting,” says Hanuszak. “I always liked the look of stripes on golf courses. I tried using my lawn roller to make them, but felt it was hard on the grass.”

Hanuszak made an attachment for his Deere X730 lawn tractor to give his lawn the look he wanted. His first thought was to use the garden tractor’s hydraulics to adjust the roller, but he came up with a simpler design instead. He copied it from his brother’s old Allis Chalmers mower.

“I grabbed some 9-in. boat trailer rollers and steel rod at my local auto store,” says Hanuszak. “I slipped the rollers on the rod and hung it from a 36-in. piece of scrap angle iron.”

He used an adjustable, step-down trailer hitch to mount it to the garden tractor’s receiver hitch. Hanuszak bolted the hitch to the angle iron. He reinforced the connection by welding two short pieces of angle iron to either side of the hitch.

“I set the step-down hitch, so the roller is about 2-in. off the ground when in use,” says Hanuszak. “It pushes over the grass but doesn’t impact the gravel when I turn on the driveway. To remove it, I just pull the receiver hitch pin. It puts in the stripes I wanted, making the lawn look professionally cut.”

Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Dwayne Hanuszak, 24487 Prince Albert Rd., Chatham, Ontario, Canada N7M 5J2 (ph 519-365-0610).