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Sasquatch Jim · « **on:** August 27, 2015, 05:25:12 PM »

It's a challange. The pretty girl that was supposed to mow my lawn broke her toe.
I gassed up the walk behind mower and got on my electric mobility scooter. I drove up alongside the mower and fired it up.
By controlling the mower with one hand and driving the scooter with the other, I was able to mow the front slope.
Not easy but it worked. I'm going to look up prices for radio controlled mowers. Does Guzzy make one ?

Lannis · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2015, 05:32:23 PM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on August 27, 2015, 05:25:12 PM

It's a challange. The pretty girl that was supposed to mow my lawn broke her toe.
I gassed up the walk behind mower and got on my electric mobility scooter. I drove up alongside the mower and fired it up.
By controlling the mower with one hand and driving the scooter with the other, I was able to mow the front slope.
Not easy but it worked. I'm going to look up prices for radio controlled mowers. Does Guzzy make one ?

My zero-turn mower doesn't need any feet to make it go or stop. Everything is hand controls.

You do have to get yourself into the seat (maybe some sort of thing hung from an A-frame or tree branch to grab?) but once there, you don't need legs. We cut 5 acres of grass and 2 miles of trails, and it's a grass-cuttin' machine, mon ....

Lannis

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #2 on:** August 27, 2015, 05:34:55 PM »

No goats in Hawaii?

guzzisteve · « **Reply #3 on:** August 27, 2015, 05:39:15 PM »

Get a reel type mower & pull it behind the rig you got.

Do you have handle bars in the sidecar yet? If not I would do the conversion. If you can afford it (the kit). I'll put it on for you after November.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #4 on:** August 27, 2015, 08:21:47 PM »

Quote from: Lannis on August 27, 2015, 05:32:23 PM

My zero-turn mower doesn't need any feet to make it go or stop. Everything is hand controls.

You do have to get yourself into the seat (maybe some sort of thing hung from an A-frame or tree branch to grab?) but once there, you don't need legs. We cut 5 acres of grass and 2 miles of trails, and it's a grass-cuttin' machine, mon ....

Lannis

My zero turn John deere doesn't need any feet to drive either. The slope is too steep to safely mow with it. I ride the electric scooter along the bottom and mow with one hand holding the mower on the side of the slope.

Lannis · « **Reply #5 on:** August 27, 2015, 08:35:44 PM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on August 27, 2015, 08:21:47 PM

My zero turn John deere doesn't need any feet to drive either. The slope is too steep to safely mow with it. I ride the electric scooter along the bottom and mow with one hand holding the mower on the side of the slope.

Sounds pretty sporty! And if you slip and fall under the mower, you can always sue the manufacturer for maintaining "an attractive nuisance" ....

Lannis

Toystoretom · « **Reply #6 on:** August 27, 2015, 08:44:40 PM »

I thought this thread was about a pretty girl.....

Lannis · « **Reply #7 on:** August 27, 2015, 08:52:21 PM »

Quote from: Toystoretom on August 27, 2015, 08:44:40 PM

I thought this thread was about a pretty girl.....

Jim, Tom is new here. Just for him, maybe put up just a SAMPLE (not a complete portfolio, that would crash the server) but just a few of the photos we like so well, so he can be on the same page?

It's just for the new guy, trust me, I wouldn't lead you wrong .....

Lannis

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #8 on:** August 27, 2015, 08:55:21 PM »

I think it's time for another hippie chick photo Sas!

ITSec · « **Reply #9 on:** August 27, 2015, 11:10:20 PM »

Quote from: Toystoretom on August 27, 2015, 08:44:40 PM

I thought this thread was about a pretty girl.....

I thought it might be about living with sinus problems...

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #10 on:** August 28, 2015, 12:45:04 AM »

Okay.

rodekyll · « **Reply #11 on:** August 28, 2015, 01:32:15 AM »

I'll take the one on the left -- either his left or mine.

My first mechanical project was converting a riding lawn mower into a go kart. I was 8 or 9.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #12 on:** August 28, 2015, 03:01:33 AM »

My uncle did one for his son way back in the mid fifties. It was a powered reel type mower. He removed the cutting reel,
Laid it down prone and atached his sons push cart to it. Crude but it worked and with my cousin driving and my brother and myself standing behind him on the frame, it still made it up the hill in front of his house. It had a manual clutch and so could do wheelies.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #13 on:** August 28, 2015, 08:14:25 AM »

Quote from: Sasquatch Jim on August 28, 2015, 12:45:04 AM

Okay.

That's what I'm talking about!

sidecarnutz · « **Reply #14 on:** August 28, 2015, 10:36:51 AM »

20 years ago I got hit by a car while riding my Mille' GT to work. Both my legs were crushed. I don't walk too good any more. A couple years ago after some abdominal surgery, my wife bought me a old Craftsman riding mower. That was her way of saying "I love you and I never want to cut grass! So here, you do it." This Spring I re-powered it with a 21 HP motor as the old motor was burning 1/3 quart of oil per hour of run time. I love that old machine. I can do our 1/3 acre in an hour now and still have energy for projects when I am done. No more walking until my hips feel like they're full of gravel!

canuguzzi · « **Reply #15 on:** August 28, 2015, 11:51:06 AM »

You'd give up a pretty girl mowing your lawn for a drone mower? I'd call that a disability not related to anything else.

Keep the pretty girl, let her make some money and instead get a hovercraft, remotely controlled to bring you drinks. Those are what are called assets.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #16 on:** August 28, 2015, 12:31:35 PM »

I want one of those drones. Big enough to ride in.

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #17 on:** August 28, 2015, 02:12:49 PM »

This is how I did it when the little hippie chick couldn't be here.

And how I am doing it with a new mower

Wildguzzi.com

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