Electric Chicken
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I'm not paying someone to do something I'm perfectly capable of buying a robot to do myself.
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Duck
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Sounds like my dad.
When he's here, he insists on mowing the lawn with the zero turn radius mower.
They're designed to mow fast, so he hauls ass around the yard. But he's like "23 hp? Why do I need 23 hp?" and he runs it at half throttle.
Maybe 23 hp isn't that necessary but full RPM is. You gotta spin those blades.
So the lawn looks like shit.
He crashes into everything too. He's broken tail lights off the same trailer three times.
Electric Chicken
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My zero turn deck is missing paint from me riding up along stuff to try to avoid trimming. Good thing they reinforced it there.
Duck
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Fabricated deck.
I'll never buy a mower with a stamped sheet metal deck.
That Murray in my first post in this thread had a stamped deck.
Hit something with it and bend it, and you'll never get it right. You can bend it back out, but then it pulls it in too tight somewhere else and it scrapes the blade.
I cut slots in mine so I could spread it open, then I bent flat-stock around the bottom edge and welded it.
But then the blade shafts were no longer parallel and it made an uneven cut.
I'm glad I don't gotta mow with that piece of shit any more.
389 Hood
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I only ever lived in an apt/condo for one year, when I first got married and left home. I liked it for all the babes that hung out at the pool in the summer, but there was nothing for me to do. Long before there were string trimmers, I used to have to crawl around on my hands and knees with a pair of scissors to trim along the walls of the house while dad mowed. We did have an edger which I stole the engine from and set it into a bicycle frame. Damn, that sucker was fast!
Electric Chicken
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Yeah it's fabbed but it also has an extra layer of steel lipped around the edge for extra reinforcement. Basically a steel bumper welded on.
Duck
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When I was 8 years old, my dad cut off the rear "V" part of a bicycle frame & bolted up angle iron and put an engine & minibike wheel on it.
He hooked the brake rod to the sprocket, so to work the brake, you just try to pedal.
That thing was FAST, especially with an 8 year old kid on it.
I had it less than a week. The front wheel spokes were loose. It started wobbling so bad the tire was hitting the inside of the fork and I lost control at 35-40 mph on the street, and spent the rest of my summer between 3rd & 4th grade covered in bandages.
Yep. That's a quality mower deck. Mine is like that on the ZTR and on the Cub Cadet I brought up from tennis sea.
Duck
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We used to sit right next to the road, and when a car was just about to pass, we'd all get up and run away from the road.
Cars would slam on the brakes thinking we did something
oh great...now 27.000 pics of cans on top of fence posts....i suppose a ravioli can would not be one of the choice cans you'd use...???
cans rust out you.......
Electric Chicken
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I'm still feeling sad for blueford. It needs a new home.
Have dolly will travel.
Have dolly will travel.
Rigjockey
In Gord we trust!
At the airport I was driving a baggage tractor in the ring road. (indoor road that runs under the departures level) It's loud so I thought I would save my co-worker the noise and shut the engine off and just coast.
Well, that made the tractor backfire creating an even louder noise. As if they needed that contribution to hearing impairment in addition to jet engines.
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Electric Chicken
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Damn, gettin' your mndriver on.
Duck
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I met him once.
First thing I did was call him an ass hole
Actually what I meant to say was you and that r3gulator guy thought he was an ass hole but I think I simply said "some people think you're an asshole".
In real life he's not an asshole. I think he just doesn't have patience for stupid.
It was shortly after r3gulator told him to take a Sawzall to his exhaust stacks or something.
Or maybe it was that Ontario outlaw jackass. I don't remember now.
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