Sujet : Re: Riding after heavy manual labor
De : jeffl (at) *nospam* cruzio.com (Jeff Liebermann)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 26. May 2024, 23:07:35
Autres entêtes
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On Wed, 22 May 2024 09:14:34 -0400, Zen Cycle <
funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
On 5/16/2024 2:18 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>
I don't believe that you own a motorized lawn mower. Looking at your
house using Google Earth Pro, your front yard is mostly driveway and
isn't large enough to require a motorized lawn mower. Most of your
back yard is a concrete patio. Using the measuring tool on Google
Earth Pro, the front lawn is 32 x 17ft and the back is 16 x 25ft. You
would do better with a push mower and a rake. If that takes up too
much area in your garage, a maybe a hedge trimmer:
"Can you Cut Grass with a Hedge trimmer?"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvcbl7P9HYA>
>
For a lawn that size, and for someone of tommy's professed means, hiring
a landscape company would solve the problem, probably pretty cheap too,
and look alot better than an 80 year old went at it with a weed whacker.
Good point. However, Tom had no reason to need a landscraper until
this year (2024). From 2020 to 2023, we were dealing with a drought.
Water use restrictions were in place. The only people watering their
lawns were those with functional graywater systems. However, there
were few that did because of the risk of exceeding water usage limits.
If Tom actually owned a lawn lowerer, it would not have run for at
least 3 years. For a gasoline motor running on pump E10 gas, unless
Tom totally purged the motor from gasoline, I doubt that the motor
would have started. Tom lives near San Francisco Bay, water
condensation in the gas tank is a problem. If he didn't drain the
water out of the bottom of the tank before trying to start the motor,
it would never have started. If he let it sit in his garage with
water in the tank for 3 years, he would have had rust problems in the
gas tank and carburetor bowl. As I mentioned, the absence of
complaints about these problems from Tom is just one of many
indications that he doesn't own a lawn lowerer.
Lawn mower bags usually have a steel wire frame to prevent the bag
from collapsing and to raise it off the ground. The blade area is
also protected close to the ground. There is no way that a bag, with
a wire frame, will get "sucked" into the blades" unless you remove the
bag and frame and run over it with the mower. A lawn mower does not
have a vacuum cleaner feature that sucks things into the blade area.
Instead, the blades form a propeller and blow lawn clippings OUT of
the blade area.
>
That's kind of what I was thinking - how does the bag get sucked _in_ to
the blades?
It doesn't get "sucked" into the blades. The blades blow air and
grass clippings away from the blower deck. How else would the grass
clipping be "blown" into the bag?
I've been mowing lawns since I was about ten, never saw that
happen.
I've avoided lawn mowing for most of my life. What little mowing I've
done was joy riding on a zero-turn mower:
<
https://www.google.com/search?q=zero+turn+mower&tbm=isch>
They really do turn on a dime and the ride is very similar to an
amusement park thrill ride.
I also have this machine (Craftsman model 247.770120):
<
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4x73QwhV22k423pk7>
It's a twig chipper and yard vacuum. I don't recall why I bought it.
Probably because it was cheap at $25 and the engine appeared to be in
excellent condition. I haven't used it yet because I don't really
have a use for it.
-- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.comPO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.comBen Lomond CA 95005-0272Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558