Re: Riding after heavy manual labor

On 5/22/2024 8:14 AM, Zen Cycle 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.
 

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? I've been mowing lawns since I was about ten, never saw that happen.
 

A house I owned for 40 years had a very small grass area, especially after I bricked in the front yard. I used a machete and an electric string trimmer occasionally which was sufficient. YMMV as always but I have an aversion to loud small 2 cycle machines.
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