![]() The company is a small, women-owned business located in New Hampshire. ![]() ![]() (They hope to have the product on retail shelves by winter of 2013). My turf is MARKED!The Mighty Marker Mount is available directly from the Mighty Marker Mount Makers. For those who want to mark their driveways year-round, the green version blends in pretty well with the lawn (once you remove the 4’ reflector rod), and the 360º reflective strip helps to keep you on the proper glide path. Its built-in gripping channels allow it to work with driveway markers of varying diameter. According to the manufacturer, the Mighty Marker Mount was designed to work with a variety of commonly available property markers, including nearly all fiberglass reflective markers. Locked and loadedThe mounts are about 10 ½” long the underground portion is just over 6”. In the spring, when it’s time to start mowing, I’ll just pull them up, throw ‘em in a box in the barn, and be good to go. The whole process was completed in just a few minutes, and, barring a malevolent Bambi attack, are much more likely to still be in place next time I look. After banging each one in, I just slid the reflector post into the center, where it fit snugly, and faster than a snow squall, it was on to the next. I used a rubber mallet, as recommended, and the mounts went in easily, and were WAY closer to vertical than my typical marker insertion. The mounts are very sturdy, and have a large, 2” striking surface, which you can whack a helluva lot harder than you can a ¼” piece of fiberglass rod, trust me. Ready to mount my markers, Mighty style…Installing the MMMs in mid-December, in semi-frozen ground, was a piece of cake. Their website has a short video relating how it all came to pass… The MMM folks developed the product because they were tired of losing THEIR driveways, and having THEIR reflectors (and lawns) mangled by errant snowplows. It has a reflective strip around it, so in the summer you can remove the reflector posts and still navigate your driveway at a high rate of speed, reenacting a scene from Tokyo Drift. Mighty Marker Mount, contrary to what you might think, is NOT a huge hill where they make Sharpies the Mighty Marker Mount is actually a MIGHTY piece of plastic formed into a stake shape, where you securely MOUNT your MARKER. (It’s also available in green, for summer use). The Mighty Marker Mount, in hi-vis orange and summery green…This year, in an attempt to provide a longer-lasting guide for our snow plowing, I purchased a ten-pack of Mighty Marker Mounts (MMMs), in a stylish shade of orange. A week later, half of the reflectors would be face down on the ground, either blown over by the gentle Lake Erie breeze or knocked over by vicious, malevolent deer. The markers that WOULDN’T go in got the persuader treatment, aka the hammer, which generally ended badly, with splintered fiberglass and shards of shattered blue plastic strewn around the yard. The markers that WOULD go in seldom took root in a pleasing, perfectly vertical fashion (picture a short, extremely skinny Leaning Tower of Pisa topped with a cracked blue plastic reflector). These efforts met with mixed results, as the ground there is fairly hard (especially when it’s frozen because I waited too long to install the markers - hey, who knew it was gonna get COLD in December…). In winters past, my efforts to chart the driveway’s location consisted of sticking a 4’ fiberglass rod with a reflector on top into the ground near the driveway at 75’ intervals. In winter, however, with the hay mowed down and a foot or two (or four) of snow covering everything, the driveway could be just about anywhere. In spring, summer and fall, we can generally navigate the driveway without too much difficulty. Our place is on a dirt road, with a 750’ gravel driveway, which is flanked on both sides by hay fields. Welcome to the Frozen Tundra Mark it fast, before it disappears again! En route, they pick up approximately five billion gallons of murky water from Lake Erie, freeze it, and dump it directly onto our roads, roofs, driveways, heads, and any other surface large enough to accommodate a snowflake. In a frozen nutshell, it begins with frigid winds sent southward by our Canadian friends. In the realm of the persistent snow band, however, we experience the TRUE meaning of the lake effect. We have a small piece of farm property south of Lake Erie, in an area designated by the professional weather-guessers to be within the “persistent snow band.” Anyone living in such an area is intimately acquainted with the sight of snowplows, snow blowers, show shovels, salt trucks, rusted vehicles as a result of the salt trucks, and, oh yeah…snow.Īnd the driveway is right…here…somewhereThe term “lake effect,” if you live in California or Texas, may conjure up images of cooling off on warm, sunny days, magnificent red sunsets and drinks on the dock.
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