You are an accident waiting to happen my friend. Running with bare feet while doing the grass (motorized or not) is highly dangerous. I can just see you getting your toes cut.
Well, @daw162, nothing wrong with doing all of those things, right? We live in a small house, in a town where we walk to the grocery store, library, bank, post office, park, and restaurants. We also drive cars with great gas mileage, eat locally, avoid processed foods, clean green, buy less and used. Having a reel mower is a small part, but that doesn't mean it can't be part of a bigger picture.
@sarafranchesca Sounds like you do the right things, unlike most. I have a situation identical to yours, can walk everywhere I need to go, and generally take the bus 95% of the time when I don't walk. Have the cars, but it's a waste to drive them and no easier to get things done.
Really starting to think (for the purposes of my back yard) the guy below is right about using more of the back yard for a bigger garden.
going green would be living in a smaller house and driving less, taking public trans and not flying all over the place. A push mower doesn't use enough gas to worry about it.
Most of the nutballs I know who bloviate about their reel mower drive 25 miles to work and boast about how europe is better than the US (because they fly there), while I live in a house half the size, drive a car half the size and push a gas mower. I wonder who is greener?
If you really wanted to go green you would plant a garden there. I love reel mowers, even though I believe that man caused climate change is a massive power grab, and will wind up being the biggest theft in history. If something was really killing us, like these chicken-little, Gore worshiping, people keep saying, then the solution would be a BAN, not a TAX.
I saw a lady demonstrating this kind of reel mower on HSN or QVC and anytime she'd hit a wood chip or something it would jam the reel. Not permamently, after she removed the chip she could roll again. Does that happen with yours too?
@dkim68 well, some of the reel mowers, lighter ones light a BRILL will stop and jam if you hit a small stick or a rock or something like that, but something heavier and with thicker blades, like a prison mower or a Mascot mower. I'm not entirely sure how well a Scotts Classic will do, but if it's on the heavier side, like over 30 lbs., i would say it wouldn't get jammed too often. One thing to remember though, that's a safety feature as well, if something does get caught, it doesn't shoot out.
i see a model that has adjustment 1-3" thats the one needed for high grass.i have zoysia grass so need high adjustment.buying one soon! everybody get one! pass the word.
As long as you keep the blades sharp as in sharpining them every time you mow your fine if you dont than you open your lawn up to disease and weeds those can be cause healt problems so while it may look cheap to operate unless you know how to sharpen blades that alone can add up to what the cost of a rotery mower costs.
"sharpining them every time you mow" are you kidding? The manual states every other year but a quick sharpen with lapping compound every season will keep it like new, very easy to do...
I was going to get one, but apparently they are no good on St. Augustine grass here in Florida. I dun got me one uh them gas powered ones... I tried...really i did...
I just bought a Scott's Classic 20" at Home Depot (and I love it), but I think the mower above is the Lowe's version of the Scott's Classic. It is a 20" Task Force (Lowe's store brand). It costs the same as the Scott's, but the one at our Lowe's comes with a grass catcher.
I'm not here to naysay, but I must say, even running and goofing around with the mower, it's still doing a decent job!
HSR500 3 weeks ago
looks like you water boarding lol
munfmunf4boisdinner 2 months ago
You are an accident waiting to happen my friend. Running with bare feet while doing the grass (motorized or not) is highly dangerous. I can just see you getting your toes cut.
kaloncar 9 months ago
Well, @daw162, nothing wrong with doing all of those things, right? We live in a small house, in a town where we walk to the grocery store, library, bank, post office, park, and restaurants. We also drive cars with great gas mileage, eat locally, avoid processed foods, clean green, buy less and used. Having a reel mower is a small part, but that doesn't mean it can't be part of a bigger picture.
sarafranchesca 1 year ago 2
@sarafranchesca Sounds like you do the right things, unlike most. I have a situation identical to yours, can walk everywhere I need to go, and generally take the bus 95% of the time when I don't walk. Have the cars, but it's a waste to drive them and no easier to get things done.
Really starting to think (for the purposes of my back yard) the guy below is right about using more of the back yard for a bigger garden.
daw162 9 months ago
going green would be living in a smaller house and driving less, taking public trans and not flying all over the place. A push mower doesn't use enough gas to worry about it.
Most of the nutballs I know who bloviate about their reel mower drive 25 miles to work and boast about how europe is better than the US (because they fly there), while I live in a house half the size, drive a car half the size and push a gas mower. I wonder who is greener?
daw162 1 year ago
@daw162 you sir have a lot of time on you hands!
redneckrollercoast1 10 months ago
do you have to run?
ismaelillo3 1 year ago
@ismaelillo3 no you can walk just for the fun also you get more muscles ! Lol
camester1 1 year ago
very very nice, and enviornmental friendly :)
Nba2kballer 1 year ago
what kind is it
thebozoboys 1 year ago
If you really wanted to go green you would plant a garden there. I love reel mowers, even though I believe that man caused climate change is a massive power grab, and will wind up being the biggest theft in history. If something was really killing us, like these chicken-little, Gore worshiping, people keep saying, then the solution would be a BAN, not a TAX.
poopstreek 1 year ago
i will go green with my lawnboy 2 stroke lawnmower,smokes like a bitch,but it is green
wrenchbender320 1 year ago
@wrenchbender320 yeah, keeps the mosquitoes away, too!
daw162 1 year ago
saves gas go green
MadHatterTruth 1 year ago
man i am afraid for your toes!
A5runner 1 year ago
I saw a lady demonstrating this kind of reel mower on HSN or QVC and anytime she'd hit a wood chip or something it would jam the reel. Not permamently, after she removed the chip she could roll again. Does that happen with yours too?
dkim68 1 year ago
@dkim68 well, some of the reel mowers, lighter ones light a BRILL will stop and jam if you hit a small stick or a rock or something like that, but something heavier and with thicker blades, like a prison mower or a Mascot mower. I'm not entirely sure how well a Scotts Classic will do, but if it's on the heavier side, like over 30 lbs., i would say it wouldn't get jammed too often. One thing to remember though, that's a safety feature as well, if something does get caught, it doesn't shoot out.
fivestander 1 year ago
wow! you can even mow bare-foot with this model!
juskiddinfreak91 1 year ago
Wow, that's REELy cool. *chuckle* I want to get one of those so badly, are they worth the extra effort?
15commandments 2 years ago
you guys have a beautiful home and big yard. what if u slipped thou and ur foot went into the mower?
cafekawaii 2 years ago
its self propelled, so hopefully he'd stop, great mowers, oh n it'd hurt, so becuse he left his shoes off he hasn't done it yet
praskovia13 2 years ago
good point. when Im in the kitchen cutting vegetables I wear full body armor just in case I slip and cut myself.
MascisMan1 1 year ago
I might not be fun for men and women but if kids get introuble just make then mow the grass with the reel mower and have the grass high too.
truckerfarmboy 2 years ago
der geht ja ab wie n wiener schnitzel mit pommes und salat
( i dont think it is necessary to translate that, it is just an expression off how grat the reel mower cuts) LOL
metalfist616 2 years ago
Is this your free gym membership?
pgm98387 2 years ago 2
my 30 years old electric lawn mower died during the winter. R.I.P.
422anonymous224 2 years ago
do these ones work well?? my gas one just died on me today and im looking into a reel or an electric..
dsouzand 2 years ago
that REAL lawn mowe works like a pair of scissors by 2 sharp blades come together and cuts, same thing with that mower
hootergirlsrhot 2 years ago
i see a model that has adjustment 1-3" thats the one needed for high grass.i have zoysia grass so need high adjustment.buying one soon! everybody get one! pass the word.
steve89z 2 years ago
use reel mower for small lawns and use robots for larger ones
americadashi 2 years ago
As long as you keep the blades sharp as in sharpining them every time you mow your fine if you dont than you open your lawn up to disease and weeds those can be cause healt problems so while it may look cheap to operate unless you know how to sharpen blades that alone can add up to what the cost of a rotery mower costs.
lot0210 2 years ago
"sharpining them every time you mow" are you kidding? The manual states every other year but a quick sharpen with lapping compound every season will keep it like new, very easy to do...
mictrik 2 years ago
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JohnDiMartino 2 years ago
what about the trim work? do you use scissors or something?
byron0929 2 years ago
Haha scissors...
johnpgallenstein 2 years ago
that looks freaking funn!!!!!
jellofast 2 years ago 2
I just got a Brill Razorcut 38. I took alot of dead clipings with it for my compost. Can't wait for the grass to get growing!
My three year old thinks it's great to! He gets to help dad or mom mow the lawn!
muledeer1976 2 years ago 2
Looks like he's having fun and also getting a work-out. With the blades sharpened, it sure looks easy.
spitfife9 3 years ago
I was going to get one, but apparently they are no good on St. Augustine grass here in Florida. I dun got me one uh them gas powered ones... I tried...really i did...
rparis1022 3 years ago
you can get a heavier version with sharp blades for thick grass.
PsychedelicSexDream 3 years ago 2
hey what kind of reel mower is that? I like the look of that one, and it seems wide and sturdy
rparis1022 3 years ago
Looks like a Scotts Classic 20" reel mower. I got one at Home Depot the other day.
cephalo 3 years ago
I just bought a Scott's Classic 20" at Home Depot (and I love it), but I think the mower above is the Lowe's version of the Scott's Classic. It is a 20" Task Force (Lowe's store brand). It costs the same as the Scott's, but the one at our Lowe's comes with a grass catcher.
sittinginthebasement 3 years ago 2
It is indeed the one from Lowe's, the Task Force with a grass catcher...we just don't always use it.
sarafranchesca 3 years ago