A dad has left Australians speechless with his ingenious gardening trick to prune his home’s hedges.
The man’s daughter shared the clever trick on TikTok after noticing her father using it on his Queensland property.
“I’m visiting my parents and my dad wanted me to watch him cut his hedge,” he said in the video.
“Apparently it’s about this truck and its crane.”
His father could be seen attaching the handle of his lawnmower to a crane before lining up his invention with the top of the hedge as the lawnmower started up.
A Queensland father has attracted attention for a video showing him trimming his hedges with an invention involving his truck and a crane.
He then got into his truck and drove it along the hedge and around his driveway, cutting the leaves off the top.
‘My God,’ her daughter can be heard saying as she laughed at the ridiculous invention.
As the six-minute video continued, the man could be seen preparing to make a second attempt at the hedge, ducking under the lawn mower to return to his truck.
‘Ahh, this is dangerous,’ said her daughter.
Many social media users were quick to call the idea genius, calling it the epitome of working smarter, not harder.
‘Ha ha ha. Only in Australia,” one person said.
‘That’s an initiative, I love it. Good for you, friend,” wrote another.
“He’s a man of ideas,” a third person commented.
“Your father is a legend and needs to be protected at all costs,” said another.
“This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, your dad is a legend,” a fifth person commented.
“I have to send this to my dad, it’s something he would do,” said another.
“This is 100% an Aussie who wants to get there fast,” wrote one more.
Other social media users questioned whether the father’s idea was “crazy.”
“How dangerous,” one person wrote.
The man’s daughter explained why he uses such an unconventional method of trimming his hedges, saying: “Unfortunately I live four hours away from my parents, so dad comes up with ways to do things to save his back.”
But he’s definitely not the first person to draw attention online for the unconventional way he uses his lawnmower.
This comes less than a month after Nathan Stafford, a well-known Sydney gardener on social media, shared a video last month showing how he uses his lawnmower to shred waste in his nearly full green bin.
He sold it as a great trick for people who are moving or who just want to keep their container from overflowing onto the nature strip.
