A NEW KIND OF PUSH MOWER?

[ELMO67]

Well, this last Saturday I saw a really interesting site- the kind that makes you pause and give thanks to the folks that gave you good, common sense. In my travels with the wifey, we passed by a hard working gentleman trying his darndest to push his mower up a short , steep grade ( about 4 feet high, 45 deg. angle). The effort he was putting into the job was quite admirable, his body was just about parallel with the hillside and he was sweating up a storm! Now to the part about giving thanks to the people who made me , for giving me common sense- my father always said "Work smarter, not harder." This hard working guy was pushing his garden tractor!!!! with the mower blazing away! I wish his father had given him the same words of encouragement mine always has! One little slip or stumble on that slippery hill that was too intimidating to ride on with the tractor and it would have been a very sorry day for that poor guy. That gives new meaning to the marketing pitch of a local casino " The wonder of it all".

 

[MikePA]

Yikes, /w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif, that's why they make string trimmers, or better yet, plant some crown vetch or some other cover and forget the grass.

 

[cj7]

wow...

sometimes you just wonder...


a neighbor near me used to pull a push mower without a handle behide his riding mower with no deck... it did not look unsafe...

I was just thinking of goofy sights....

 

[Stonewall]

I once saw a guy using a "Fly-Mo" (hover craft/lawn mower) on a dew wet slope in a parking lot. His feet slipped out from under him and down he went. The Fly-Mo glided right back at him. He was able to kick it away before it got to him but it was TOO CLOSE! It continued down the hill, over the curb and on to the asphalt where it hovered in the general area untill he got back to it. Most times I think that Operator Presence devices are a pain but that thing needed one!

 

[sleepyhollow]

Stonewall,

I've never heard of one of those, do they have a web-site? I'm not going to go out and buy one, I'm just curious to see. I've seen that concept for vacuum cleaners, but never lawn mowers.
Sleepyhollow

 

[Stonewall]

I think they are made in the UK and I think there used to be a link at www.yetmans.mb.ca/manufacturers.html or just try a search for Yetmans in yahoo. I haven't been on the yetman dir. site in a long time but it's a shot. It's too dry in Colorado to use one with out starting your own dust storm and they work best on thick groomed lawns.

 

[Bird]

Several years ago, one of my employees was using a regular old walk behind lawnmower on a little slope, backed up, stumbled and fell, and didn't turn loose of the mower handle. He pulled it right back onto his foot. Doctors did save most of the foot, but it was long time in the hospital and long convalescence at home.

 

[GaryM]

My brother in law had one, he lives in the UK, and I got to try it. Great for trimming, or in a really small yard, but hard to go in a straight line.

 

[Inspector507]

Here's one manufactured in Maine
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.hovermower.com/>Hover Mower</A>

 

[MossRoad]

Good link. At least the guy in the picture is on the uphill side of the mower.

I remember those mowers when I was a kid. Weren't they electric?