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The problem: Commercial riding lawnmowers need to find a balance of being small enough to maneuver around the edges of yards, but they also need to be big so they are efficient when cutting wide open spaces in the middle of the yard. They also need to be narrow enough that they can easily fit on a trailer to move from location to location.
The problem: Commercial riding lawnmowers need to find a balance of being small enough to maneuver around the edges of yards, but they also need to be big so they are efficient when cutting wide open spaces in the middle of the yard. They also need to be narrow enough that they can easily fit on a trailer to move from location to location.
Solution: My solution is having an attachment that is added to the regular lawnmower to increase the cutting width of the mower. A standard commercial mower is about 50 inches wide. I would create an attachment that can be folded down when cutting wide open spaces, giving the mower a cutting width of around 90 inches. Then when cutting small area where the mower needs to be able to turn faster or for transportation the attachment would be folded up vertically and stowed. This would decrease the time required to cut open spaces by about 40%, and in the lawn care business time is money. This attachment would cost a couple hundred dollars, and if it let the person driving the mower cut an extra two lawn per day the payback period on their investment would be somewhere around a month.
Hi Brandon,
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting product. I like how you included numbers in your solution so that the reader can really get a sense of the product you are creating. I’m not someone who has mowed a lawn before, so I definitely needed the numbers to help me visualize what the difference was going to be. I also liked that you included statistics for how much time it would save and the financial effect for your buyers. Overall, nice job!
Ashley Decker