Someone in the neighbourhood wanted to honour their fallen mower.
For real, that's not a push mower's duty lol... bro needs a scythe
It works fine if you take narrow cuts - like 1/3 of the width of the blade/cut deck rating. Works even better with the cut height maxed out and the mower on its back 2 wheels lol.
I've also used a manual scythe and a sickle-bar mower.
Yup. One of my neighbors had a jungle in her backyard one year. She asked my son and I to help cut it. What we did was put the mower on the rear wheels and slowly lower it, giving the blades time to cut. It was slow going but once we cut everything down to a manageable height, we were able to mow it normally.
I've just let it self-propel with the front wheels in the air for the entire lawn once lol.
Rwd mower is something I need lol
I had a belt drive push mower with a hole cut out of the front for those situations. I need to put a new motor on it. It was almost as good as a walk behind bush hog.
I would just toss a saddle and ride it like a hog around my yard at that rate. Get those wheels up and let ‘er rip!
It'd be alive today if they didn't try to make it cut that forest
Lol my dad made me do this once, I told him it was too long but he was angry so I didn't push him on it. It stalled out twice and then finally snapped a blade before we even had a row done.
Snapped a blade? God damn. Were you mowing bamboo?
must've been using a Little Tikes Gas 'n Go
POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP POP
POPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOPPOP
The sound that drowns out any chance of having a conversation.
When I was a little kid I had one of those, and whenever my mom was vacuuming, I'd push it around to feel like I was helping lol
I had the same problem with one, dad was making me cut tall grass and when I hit a big clump it bent the crank. Not sure how you snap a blade unless it was somewhere with sandy soil. The blades get thin quick from the constant sand blasting
I dunno on that one. My dumb ass keeps clipping this piece of rebar in a weird spot in my lawn and my blades are alright.
Grass won’t snap a blade no matter how thick it is.
they push it above its limit
Or a herd of goats!
I’ve been looking into this for my no mow may cleanup. It has gone like this:
“Thank you for contacting Fuck You, We Have Goats. All 9,000 herds of our goats are booked out through 2027. Perhaps you shouldn’t have been an uninspired piece of shit who didn’t think to call us in December like everyone else. Enjoy your miserable existence, we will be fucking off to a Martian Resort with our goat riches. Once again, Fuck You, We Have Goats.”
"Fuck you, I have goats" sounds like a winner of a t-shirt
Son of a Shepherd!
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Nah, they can handle it just fine, if it's a gas mower. We had one we nicknamed "the rock mower" when I was a kid. It was an old Snapper my dad found abandoned that had a dirty carburetor. My dad still has it, 25 years later. It would tackle anything you threw at it. We made a grass deflector out of a plastic real estate sign. You could mow through small saplings with the thing, and it would barely stutter.
I got a 92 JD self propelled and helped the neighbor out last week. Took the bag off. Left the chute open. Stood to the side and proceeded to mow down 14" of weeds and the thing tossed it 15 feet behind me like some crazy brush hog
Sharpened the blade after of course
I had one like that years ago that would routinely gobble up all manner of unnoticed bits and pieces of sand toys, trucks, and once a pair of expensive eyeglasses. It was a tough one!
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Push mowers are often direct drive. Straight shaft from the engine to the blade. Nothing siphoning power off. Very simple and very powerful. Probably the most powerful mower with that size engine.
Other mowers can only be more powerful because you can fit a larger engine on them.
weedwhacker at least
It may have been a brand new mower before they started cutting for all we know!
Like, electric gets it done if it's a sufficiently beefy machine.
I switched to a ride on electric zero turn, from a well powered more traditional John Deere rider and I will never willingly go back to a gas mower. I won't give up variable blade speed, no fuel, no vibration, being able to mow at night and not annoy the neighbors or terrify my critters with the noise. r/Mowers does NOT like the electrics, but man, they are the future.
Fid not expect mine to be able to handle brush, but somehow it has. I can't plow over it in one go quite as hard as I did with the gas mower, but considering doing that eventually destroyed the Deere I think perhaps that is for the best.
Prior to this I switched to plug in mowers over gas, because the seasons are not great here and it sits half the year and gas goes bad and the carbs rot and just, I really hate gasoline tools, lol. I will happily drag a million mile extension cord around to not have to vibrate my hands numb and listen to an angry little air box all day.
I salute this brave little mower, it did a tractors job till the very end.
Also, it's probably just brushes. These have a super common three bolt motor in them usually and it can often just be pulled wholesale out of another mower of the same size. Heck I'm sure you can just buy mower motors on the interwebs for super easy service.
Would be funny to just fix the thing and leave it on their porch, lol.
I've never even owned a gas mower as an adult. Started with a corded electric for my old house in town which had a small lawn, and upgraded to an Ego battery powered mower when I moved into my suburban house with a medium sized lawn a decade ago.
The original battery is starting to struggle to last through a complete mow now, ten years on. I'm sure I've saved more in gas than the cost of the mower by this point, so I can't be mad.
You may be able to replace the battery, could get another 10 years for relatively little cost
the cooling while charging and in use prolongs the batteries exceptionally well. I really like my ego stuff
Yeah, not to be an advertisement but sometimes my yard looks like that and it clears it just fine. Proud of the lil green thing.
Plus it has headlights. They aint pop-up up-and-down headlights..but headlights nonetheless. And yeah I love not having to have gas or mix gas and oil and what not.
I'm not exactly mowing the redwoods or anything and my yards aren't massive but that big battery will lose 1 maybe 2 bars of charge. I love that thing.
Yeah, I have one of the smallest models and even if I'm clearing a small forest of growth like in the OP I'll get a little less than an acre off a charge. Plus, the quiet alone is worth the money.
Electric motors have always been powerhouses. They have only ever been held back by the limitations of their power supplies.
I think people don't realize freight trains are electric vehicles. The diesel engines are only power generators. 100% torque from zero rpm is wild.
Right, and the ICE engines in hybrid cars are also just generators. Point being, for many use cases, battery only isn't going to cut it (pardon the pun). I'd love to have an all-electric whiz mower for our 2+ acres of lawn, but the 3K hour retired Exmark I bought off a landscaper for peanuts isn't going to meet it's electric match anytime soon.
Right, and the ICE engines in hybrid cars are also just generators.
In some hybrids, called "series hybrids".
They are far from ubiquitous, many if not most are still parallel hybrids where the electric motor and the engine are both directly connected to the drivetrain.
Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive is a series-parallel design, and probably the most ubiquitous among consumer hybrids.
It's a use case thing sure.
Eventually many locations will simply not sell new ICE equipment or the parts to support them in the variety they do now. See: California.
Like it or not, that is the path the rest of the country tends to follow, usually kicking and screaming, but eventually it catches up.
I still have gas stuff. The electric is a great power washer, but the high volume gas engine driven one can strip paint off a truck frame, and is not getting replaced any time soon, for example. The tractor is still diesel. My daily vehicles are still ICE as there is not an electric truck to my liking, or even in my budget.
It is just kinda amusing to me I guess just how defensive people are of their gas mowers, lol.
I don't think an electric will run for the 2-3 hours of mowing I have to do, but good for you.
I mean, mine will do 2 acers of reasonable grass in one go, or the whole thing across a couple charges if I let it get like two ft high.
It would do better if I wasn't on a slope.
I love my little electric mower. Yea, had to get extra batteries. Sure - I've had to finish the lawn the next day in some cases.
Beats messing with gas. Getting the mixture right if it needs oil as well.
Paying to have a gas can around just waiting to be a hazard.
When it runs out I just need to charge the batteries. No running down the the station to gas up a damned jug.
Not as powerful as a gas mower but not as heavy either.
There are some trade off's but Ill take the electric any day.
The trade offs were worth it for me. If I had a large property it would not currently be the answer, but for what Ingot going on I really like it. Egos battery working across all tools, including the power bank, power washer, and riding mower is pretty wild.
One thing I actually particularly like about the push mowers is the plastic body is remarkably quiet, but also it does not damage smaller trees and plants when it bonks into them, which just like, happens some times. I hate knocking bark off trees with a tap from a steel deck mower.
"It's alive! ALIVE!!"
I want an electric tractor so bad, but sadly the EGO T6 is twice the price as other tractors, which I can't even afford those.
I've always dreamed of a riding mower. When I first got my house, by some miracle, I was gifted a riding lawnmower. It was intimidating but I loved it.
For 2 mows, before it broke down. Then it sat in my garage for a year before I gave it to my brother to fix up.
Since then I've had my ego push mower. I love everything about that except for the fact that it's a push mower.
Hopefully in a handful of years when I'm ready to upgrade, prices will start to be more reasonable. I'm also a bit weary of how the hell I'd ever service a $5k electric mower if anything were to ever happen to it.
I mean for 5k you can get an autonomous electric mower that uses a form of GPS guidance to mow and a bunch of other bells and whistles. I saw some that had the ability to call home via cell to report themselves stolen if they went too far from home against their will.
The auto mowers are getting pretty good. I can't really use one as my yard is a bit of a uh, junkyard at the moment, but if I get the areas set up that I can just let a little yard tank handle it I'll certainly give it a shot.
Which battery zero turn did you do with? I want to do the same when my rider dies.
Upvote for angry little air box lol!
I was all about gas only. Live in Colorado so got 30% off a STIHL electric with the state eco benifits. It’s actually very good. Full steel housing, and one battery will cut my yard front and back 3 times without a charge. Got it for 250 when a basic good brand gas one was 450.
I take it you don’t share this in r/mowers
Oh I did. It went as well as one would expect, lol.
No mow May!
Yeah, that mower didn’t die of natural causes, it was murdered…strangled to death.
Yeah, that mower didn't die. It was strangled. Murder I say!
And with an electric mower.
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I hope when I die, I drop dead during work and they just leave me where I fell and put a sign on my back.
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Bro you literally worked your mower to death.
Because he was trying to mow down the Amazon rainforest
"Ah shit, I broke my lawnmower on the side of Eldorado."
I thought my trimmer finally but the dust the other day. After years of faithful service the old gal just stopped. Almost brought a tear to my eye. Turns out my dumbass loaded the line in backwards and it immediately all unspooled and wrapped itself around the shaft. A little cutting and swearing later and she's good as new.
Get a bunch of neighbors to lay flowers and such quietly in the middle of the night. The neighbor wakes up and sees a memorial
Like the Toronto Raccoon?
"Get well soon"
Or lay shredded up flowers next to it so they look like they’ve been mowed over
Live by the blade, die by the blade
Blade is life.
Let er’ rip!
Don't tread on my blades
While you were potty training, I was studying the blade.
You merely adopted the blade. I was born in it. Molded by it.
Carry on soldier, carry… on.
My wayward son.
There’ll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest. ..
Don’t you cry no more
guitar solo intensifies
Brm brm brm dadum. Duh da dadada da duh da duh…daaadaaaa. Da daaa…
There is no need to be upset
A simpler time.
man I remember my computer lab teacher playing that video for the class in like 2005
From the height and density of the grass, it looks like they clogged it. If you’re mowing grass that high with a push mower, you gotta “wheelie” it and ease the front down, so it’s not fighting against the whole length of the grass at once
Pro tip took me till me teens to figure out
May a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest!
You’re in the arms of an angel
May you find some comfort here
Rust In Peace.
Lay some flowers next to it
Maybe grass trimmings would be more appropriate?
Looks like he's got a lot Jesus christ lol
Nah, trimming grass was the mower's job. That'd be like going to your officemate's grave and leaving TPS reports.
Get well soon balloon too 😂
Fun fact, electric mowers have 4 or 5 components, and they're dirt cheap with the exception of the motor
And depending on your state, they might come with a rebate. I know California has one program where electric mowers and other equipment get the sizable rebate of a couple hundred dollars depending on the size of machine
I just looked. Corded mowers don't qualify, WTF? Only battery self propelled ones qualify.
Weird policy. Since the whole point is to reduce pollution caused by gas mowers. Corded mowers should be supported more because it doesn't create battery waste.
Which county are you looking at?
You would think! But don't forget that it's targeting localized pollution. And essentially off shoring the global pollution to some other countries!
It's an issue, similar to how EVS are not the answer, they create almost the equivalent amount to a regular gas or diesel power car because the pollution isn't localized to first world countries but second and third world countries. EVS are a better choice if you're going to get a new car, but there's no real good way to put in enough highly efficient public transit to counteract the mass amount of suburban neighborhoods that are the majority of American households. Americans are not going to give up their homes to go into Apartments or townhouses or what have you. America for the past 70 years has been built to cater to suburbanites. Especially since America unique and that owning a house is essentially part of their retirement plan and part of a person's net worth. Also fuck everyone who takes private jets, look at you Taylor Swift and your buddies. Especially Kylie Jenner I think just took a like a 20 minute pirate Jet flight to go to one side of Los Angeles to the other.
When’s the mowmorial?
and used the right 'its'
It's=It is!
I'm guessing it was quiet only after it died.
Why don’t they just fix it?
Likely shorted some windings if it got real hot, if not, brushes are an easy fix.
Someone rescue it!
Yeah my dads a lawnmower mechanic basically most shit is fixable aside from weedwackers. When those things break they are basically totaled
The autopsy showed that buddy had run over the extension cord.
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My grandpa used to use an electric.
Lol, my dad had one like that, I remember we had to help him look for parts he lost so he could fix it up again, and again, and again😂
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Thank you for your service.
I see a lot of people ITT talking about how the mower wasn’t suited for this long of grass. Real question- what’s the best way to take care of a yard with grass/weeds this tall?
I’m a new homeowner and my lil yard is a jungle of long grass and weeds so any help is appreciated lol
You may need a (couple) roughing passes, possibly the first one or more with a weed whacker and another with the mower wheels at their highest setting. Then rake up all the mangled plant carcass(s) and let the understory get some light for a few days before bringing it down to "yard height". It didn't get that way quickly so take some time getting it back.
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It'll be good for another 30 years when he's done with it.
Someone counted their lawnmower hours?
That's the Time!
1721 is 5:21 PM
Ohh, the lack of a colon threw me off
Sure, but writing "at 1721 hours" is pretty ambiguous - that's not the normal syntax for 24 hour time.
That's funny 😁
Probably the brushes. These are typically brushed DC motors.
Hella good tread left on the tires tho.
Well, he only cut his lawn once every year or so. Hard to wear tread out at that rate.
I doubt this thing is "dead". It most likely has less electrical complexity than a box fan.
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Have you tried changing the spark plugs?
check the brushes. seriously. may still be good w new brushes
Now it is no mower.
A cut above the rest.
That mower was murdered. It did not die of natural causes.
Moment of silence
Rip 🙏🏽 just went through this last weekend.
BTW did yall know you gotta build the new mower? I thought I could just push it off the lot, but nooo I had to go home and build it like I was in Robots putting together a new baby
It couldn't take no mower.
RIP
Probably burnt out the motor from mowing that tall as fuck Vietnam jungle of a yard.
RIP mow homie.
My man, the bearings in that motor are very likely 608 roller skate bearings and those along with the commutator brushes can be had off of Amazon overnight.
That thing isn't dead. It's resting. Wake it up.
It ain't got no gas in it.
Seriously amazing longevity for a device that never gets any TLC.
That thing was made in the early 80's.
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RIP Duramark. Have fun in the big meadows in the sky.
Let us pay our respects to this little mighty mower, who fought bravely against the overgrowth. May it mow many emaculate patterned lawns in lawncare heaven. Amen.
Pull the long strands of weeds that didn't get cut out of the propeller and there's a chance it starts back up....
F in chat boys
Is your neighbor Hank Hill?
This reminds me of a funny story back when I was younger me and my cousin were playing hide and go seek he said come on guys let’s go hide under the lawn mower, I never saw him again :(
interesting, my partner’s laptop died at about the same time today also performing it’s duties
1988 PSA’s were right. Weed does kill.
Me one day
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My push reel mower is still going strong without any maintenance.
Fix it and leave a sign dating it’s revival. Even if you don’t know how. Reddit can help you!
RIP. You will not be forgotten.
Don't have a lawn mower here, is that a lot if time? 71 days?
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Couple of YouTube videos and that baby is back in business.
I’m guessing that somebody was you and you captured the moment for that sweet Reddit karma?
Icarus flew too close to the sun
That poor mower was murdered!
Tomb of the Unknown Mower
We have had our mower for at least 15 years while doing almost nothing to maintain it, it sounds like it's on it's last legs but still works even with old gasoline on tall grass. I'm buying an electric mower when it dies, but it has been a really tough lawn mower all these years. I almost want to honor it like in the OP's picture.
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Lol, when our ride on mower died it did not "Die quietly"
Lawn mower's like this are pretty fun to fix up though, very very simple mechanicals and doesn't require any real significant precision to get running again.
This isn't mildly interesting, this is hilarious!
Mark Dura died Wednesday at home. (Acreage Funeral Home)
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Humans will imprint on anything
Wtf is that even? I see no engine or batteries
The only thing it ever did quietly.
probably just needs some new brushes
Farewell, duramark, prince of lawn mowers, whose long and faithful friendship those who knew you won't forget! Though your body will rust, your oil lingers on in the oil bay of other machines of your master's home. May your many left spare tools ever flourish and your human friends find solace for the loss they have sustained.
Rest in pepperoni lawnmoweroni
Probably used the wrong gauge extension cord and burned up the motor trying to mow grass and weed that were too tall in the first place. The mower didn't just die. He killed it.
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Good, now it’s right for #NoMowSummer
The only thing it did quietly in its whole life, I bet
My god, look what they were cutting.