rooted-and-reaching: plantyhamchuk: rooted-and-reaching: I did it! My first expensive adult purchase
rooted-and-reaching:plantyhamchuk:rooted-and-reaching:I did it! My first expensive adult purchase was to buy a lawnmower. It’s been a dream of mine for a while to own a…what are they called? Acoustic? Analog? An acoustic lawnmower.It’s more work on the arms to push but it doesn’t use gas or emit a lot of noise, and it spreads the grass clippings nice and evenly across the lawn to they don’t turn into ugly brown clumps that take weeks to decompose fully. Totally worth the price.Does it take as long to use as an electric? Is it hard to sharpen the blades? How easy is it to get hurt on such a thing? The blades aren’t sharp - they spin against a metal plate on the bottom to sheer the grass rather than cut it. The edges of the “blades” are ] shaped. The whirring sound comes from them sliding across the bottom section. Thus it is pretty hard to get hurt. There’s not a lot of cutting power there (clumps of grass from the gas mower can even clog the blades unless I’m moving quickly enough) and unless you’re moving foreword at speed it won’t do anything to objects tougher than grass or paper. That also that no sharpening is needed! Just lots of cleaning and oiling on the gears to avoid rust. I missed one wipe-down and I already see signs of rust along the blade edges. Oops :SAwesome! I’ve read about these things before but have never met anyone who has actually owned one. They’ve been widely touted in environmentalist literature for ages. I hope it provides you with years of great use! -- source link
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