"What sort of lawnmower do you own?" Topic

In this poll discussion, TMP link
etotheipi commented

I also don't have any more "like" to own one someday than I would "like" to own a new lawnmower. For me, a gun is a tool. If I need one, I'll get one.

I also have no problem with people who are gun hobbyists and enjoy their use in that way. Or lawnmower hobbyists.

So. what sort of lawnmower do you own or would like to own?

My initial suggestions are:
Manual push along cylinder mower
Electric push along cylinder mower
Electric rotary mower
Flymo
Sit on petrol mower
Lawnmowers are not allowed where I live
Scythe (for the re-enactor crowd)
Sheep
I don't have a lawnmower but I support the right of others to own them.

Lawnmowers don't cut grass – people cut grass!!!

I am married to my lawnmower, she's a good woman, always been nice to me, gave me two lovely daughters and drives me home when I've had a drink.

Oh, and she cuts the grass.

I use a self-propelled, gas-powered, push mower and find it economical, reliable and powerful enough to cut very high grass.

Can you own teenagers?

@Saber6- not in any meaningful way, but it is sometimes possible to housetrain them.

I rent a neighborhood teenager once a week in season.

Once I finish building out in the country, goats are a serious option.

Used to have a petrol rotary, but down sized lawn, so currently using pair of hand shears. Will eventually buy a small manual cylinder push mower. Don't have the physique for scything, tends to cause derision rather than swooning when I take my shirt off like Poldark

Gas.
Push.
Son.
Sears.

Scythe. There's a bit of a learning curve to using one, but it's not too bad.

Doug

This one.

Also doubles as a gym membership.

Can you own teenagers?

No. But occasionally, if you're lucky, you can pwn them! :)

Once I finish building out in the country, goats are a serious option.

I can't have a goat because my county says they're not "domesticated animals". Yeah, really.

Ride on John Deere. It's rubbish.

It is a lot less bovver with a hovver.

And they say advertising doesn't work….

don't have a lawn, and at the missus' place she has a gardener – no idea what type of lawnmower the gardener has, sorry.

I inherited an elderly electric Flymo.

What is this do do with the hobby? This is the sort of thing which should not grace the pages of TMP.

Push-type, gas powered, cheap Chinese mower from Walmart, since the good one died trying to cut a small, hidden boulder, and couldn't afford a decent replacement.

Got the end of season sale, and a discount on top of that, so paid about $100 USD or so.

Crap mower in thick stuff, but it mostly gets the job done. Not very powerful though.

I´ve got a Toro with the wonderful Briggs and Stratton 675 series four stroke air cooled engine. Starts first time, every time!

Gas riding mower, gas push mower, gas string trimmer, gas leaf blower, gas chainsaw, gas snow blower. I have a lot of gas!

Why is this here? To paraphrase a grumpy old man, "get off my page!"

None. Pay a company who hires disabled people to landscape.

I'm hoping chubby & 21eRegt had their tongues firmly in their cheeks when you look at the ones that get through.

Alpacas

Teenager pushed lithium battery powered mower new this year from the Depot (the mower not the teen!).

"Why is this here? To paraphrase a grumpy old man, "get off my page!""

Read the OP. It is a commentary on gun ownership.

Anyway. I own a push cylinder mower and a flymo. One with a proper steel blade, none of your namby pamby plastic ones.

I did decapitate a frog with it the other week, whereas it might have survived a plastic blade, so perhaps there is a case for regulating the ownership of steel blades.

When we had guinea pigs, they mowed the lawn.

In our old gaff I used a hover because we had an Alsation dog that was determined to escape by tunnelling out under the fence; Unfortunately she would start to dig in the middle of a 20' wide garden!

Now we have a smaller, much more manageable garden without grass but before the ecology PC people try to jump all over me, we have loads of pots of flowers for the bees, butterflies etc.

Push along petrol mower which works well and makes bonus entertaining clouds of smoke on occasion and 2 electric rotaries, the Bosch is great, the Wolf rubbish, plus 2 strimmers without strimmer cord. What can I say, the last bloke left a lot of stuff behind in the house.

As you know lawnmower racing is a real thing, how long can it be before the OFM replaces his sedan chair racing game with miniature mower mayhem?

Gasoline Briggs and Stratton (from Sears in 2008) pushed by an oldish fat man.

As you know lawnmower racing is a real thing, how long can it be before the OFM replaces his sedan chair racing game with miniature mower mayhem?

Hot Wheels/Matchbox has some nice options for 28mm! I think ERTL makes all the Deere models. Schylling makes one, too, I believe.

Some sort of Al Gore inspired electric thing with a lithium-ion battery. I keep waiting for the battery to set my house on fire. To be fair the thing works pretty well but it takes a whole charge to cut my piddling yard.

I love landscaping and yard work. I can watch the gardeners mowing and blowing all day.

That being said, I did at one time, in a different living situation, own a manual rotary push mower. I even mowed half of the front lawn with it a few times. etotheipi is right about it doubling as a gym membership!

I intend to be the second person in my neighborhood to replace the lawn with Astroturf. I just want to be sure the first man isn't run out of town before I start. (This is the American Middle West. We take lawn maintenance seriously.)

I am the happy owner of a voice activated lawnmower. Further, it's also voice programmable. It's a bit expensive, but it can also wash clothes and dishes! It's my son! And, if you're young enough and well enough connected you can breed, er, get one of you're very own…
Oh, he uses one of those gas powered push mower thingies…

Funny you should ask. I just expanded my string trimmer collection earlier this month with a good used Stihl powerhead with brush cutter and string-trimming attachments. Two tired Homelite trimmers will now grace the Hall of Fame display (er, spare parts bin).

The star of the collection is a 1978 John Deere 316 garden tractor, of which I am the original owner. Thirty eight years and counting.

A couple of years ago I added a 1965 Allis Chalmers "Big Ten" garden tractor to keep the Deere company. It's a sentimental choice, as that's what I started my mowing & plowing business with so very long ago.

And there are other bit and pieces of Simplicities, and Massey Ferguson's and Wheel Horses and (shame) even a Cub Cadet, and push mowers and snow blowers, and a raft of implements.

Now you know why I haven't set up a sand table in my garage.

Oh, and a Flymo is on the bucket list. And a 70's or 80's Case 200 series with a good working HyDrive tranny. And….
it's dangerous thing to get a lawnmower hobbyist started!

Perry

@ GarrisonMiniatures: Sorry to hear you're having a poor experience with a Deere. Is it one of those plastic&tin things from Home Depot?

@chubby & 21eRegt: Why is it here? Cross-pollination! "Yard Wars" is a work in progress (and sadly, still is after a few decades). Steve Jackson can probably rest easier tonight having read that. ;-)

Manual push reel (same as cylinder?) mower that doesn't get used because we hire some kids from church to mow the lawn, rake the yard, and shovel the sidewalks (per season).

The mower in the garage is a gasoline four cycle rotary mover with powered rear wheels. Which is not being used as a friend brings his riding mower over and cuts the grass. Not for free though, I get to help split and stack a couple of cords of firewood (with a hydraulic spliter)

Up until this last spring I was responsible for an 1 acre lot, I used a pair of horses, the knee high grass was gone in about 4 weeks and was fertilized for the next year. Almost as good as goats, they eat blackberries as well as grass.

Black & Decker self-propelled electric.

Flymo, petrol rotary push along and sit on petrol.

Got a sheep.

I am morally opposed to private lawn-mover ownership.

(actually, what passes for a backyard here is rocks and sand with like 3 tufts of grass that the housing community maintenance guys ruthlessly trim with an astounding zeal)

Ain't got one. Landlord has someone do our lawn around our building.