Just ordered a new Lawn Mower

Start with a tuned pipe for the muffler.

I had one of those some time ago. (in the days I had a garden)

I gave it some serious abuse but it stood up to it.

spacey


Where's the seat?

In the house.  That's where I would be sitting to watch whoever is actually operating the mower.

rsp@odyssey.net

spacey


Where's the seat?

And cupholder? My lawn tractor has both. I won't mow any other way. A man's gotta have standards!
 
Randy

I won't put up with a ride-on mower.

It makes the estate staff lazy and complacent.

When I was a kid I attached a VW Bug muffler to my push mower. I think that was Abm though.

musicman100


MY NEW LAWNMOWER VERY CARBON FRIENDLY




TUNED TO BAHHHH Major

 
He he - carbon friendly until it starts releasing all that methane out the other end
 
 
 

LOL Steve! That hit my funny bone...I almost tipped
my chair over backwards! Just wasn't expecting that.

I have to share this....
Where I grew up, out west, little mowers were plenty.
Water was money so most lawns were small.
When I moved to the south everything changed. A wide cut
and riding was/is a must, for most average neighborhoods around here.

My first riding mower was a Snapper, rear engine. Not a big cut either so
mowing and trimming would take most of a day.
I climbed the side of the house, got lawn chairs wrapped around the wheels,
hit big objects and once knocked the front tire clean off the rim! I was so bad
that on Saturdays the neighbors would get out their lawn chairs and try not to
be obvious about watching me. I guess I could say that I even knocked my neighbor
Randall out of his chair! He saw me knock that tire off the rim....I did a bad looking
handstand on that one.
My wife still laughs...see was doing dishes the day it went up the side of the house
under the kitchen window. 
Now I'm a pro. with a big lawn tractor. I did wreck it not long ago....I got to close
to the drainage ditch. ....make that semi-pro?

STRING TRIMMERUK ????

After moving up here to the beautiful Pacific Northwest (to get away from the annoying Pacific So. Cal. attitudes) I actually know people that use goats to keep their lawns in check.  I'm guessing they don't have to fertilize the baaack yard as much either.

Steve,
I was kicked back watching the tube and a John Deere
lawn mower commercial came on and for some reason
it flashed that I should mention this and before I do please
don't think that I think you're ignorant to mowers....
but they like feet and fingers.
I know a few folks that have very bad battle scars from making
silly mistakes that are easy to make. Won't bore with gore but
sure thought I should mention - be safe and don't trust that thing.

there is something rather wonderful about mowing a lawn.

Is it running over toads?

They fly all over the place don't they?

gordonrussell76

hitting a frog with a strimmer sounds a bit like a snare hit going through a  mutron, am i the only one to notice this?
G

You're prolly the only one to have recorded it...

gordonrussell76


My dad has a mountfield same as the one in the first post, its been going 30 odd years, they make those things to last. 

Gordon, my neighbour has a Mountfield that's about that old too - as Jon says, they appear built to last, hence my decision to buy one.
 
Our back gardens back onto a large playing field and he takes his mower out back regularly and mows a patch out to about ten feet from our fences. My electric Qualcast just couldn't get through that stuff - at least now I'll be able to return the favour.
 
 
 

I have never recorded it, but for years I thought that Black Man on Song in the key of life featured Strimmered Toad. I always wandered how Stevie managed to get the sound.

I had visions of them strimming toads in studio A, Stevie shouting, strimm another Fischback the last one was close but it lacked something in the upper mids.

Then i found out about the Mutron pedal and was crushed.

G