Thread: Push reel lawn mowers

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

You folks mean those fancy push mowers aren't the latest in technology? I just saw one at fenny's feed store and he says they just came out. Around these parts we been using a sickle to cut the grass and weeds. Thats how we get to be so musu...err...mussilu...err you know what I mean you be big and strong.

My dog is short and my grass is long, in shortening the grass with a silent sickle I stand a good chance of shortening my poor unseen dog. At least the noise of the petrol mower gives the dozy critter advance warning to git movin'.


Mick

We have one and i like it because it makes no noise. It takes about 2 hours to cut all our garden but i have no hurry. No worries for gas either. I sharpen the blades once a year and that is all care it needs.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

And there are all levels of it. For instance, the guy who I saw using a pair of scissors to trim his sidewalk (no joke) last summer probably thinks you are a victim of "new and improved!" 1930s marketing schemes with your fancy push-reel

good point hoglahoo...its funny how we forget the old once we get used to the new even though sometimes the old is better or at least just as good. I think it often comes down to what is cheaper for the manufacturer to make not what is actually the better product. Like straight razors...cost more to make so people buy the cheaper alternative...