Use washing line to support cable with an electric mower

[spuorgelgoog]

But if you can design one that's better and cheaper ... or just cheaper ...

If you can shotgun a cable and an extraction hose you could have a continuously-emptying grassbox as well.

Owain

[Bod]

Then go without a bra.

[Bod]

Ditto.

[MM]

It's not April 1st, is it? ;)

I'd never heard of an electric wheelbarrow till now!

MM

[MM]

And what about my man baps?

MM

[MM]

Goodness! Are you STILL refusing to accept that the cable sometimes/often gets in the way?

MM

[Tim Lamb]

Free advice alert.... My ride-on has a *mulching* option which claims to disappear the mowings back to the lawn. In practice, if you mow using the same route, it re-gathers the last lot and eventually puts it in a narrow line. The rotting grass can then damage the lawn.

[MM]

Yep. 3X CABG.

Sternum takes up to a year to heal. Nor was I allowed to lift the garage door, pull or push anything heavier than a couple of pounds, no hoovering, not carry even moderately full shopping bags, and so on.

Some impatient patients [sic] break their sternum wires, do all kinds of damage, the fools.

However, after 2 years my sternum is fully healed, probably stronger, like all bones, than before the saw, so I can pull that jolly old recoil no probs.

MM

[Nightjar]

When I had my heart valve replacement, I was told to take care for twelve weeks, after which I could do things as normal. It wasn't much more than that when my partner had a bad fall and I spent a few weeks lifting her in and out of bed.

[Capitol]

I looked at ride on mowers, but there appears to be a cartel on sales of new ones. Every source had the same price.

[Huge]

The same *ludicrous* price.

And if mine's anything to go by, they're utter crap. I was so glad I can weld a bit and have a few tools, because bits break or drop off it all the time. It was obviously designed by an idiot - I particularly 'like' the steering arm that has a 90 degree bend in it and the loads are applied in the plane of the bend, so it fatigues and snaps off. The second time, I welded a fillet in and it's been fine ever since. It's had 2 engine rebuilds and half a dozen starter motor gears (the bit that engages with the flywheel ring gear - they were made of nylon & regularly disintegrate. I note that the latest one is aluminium.)

But then, it is 21 years old.

[Bob Minchin]

take the cable up from the mower, put it round the back of your neck and under the arm. It really is so easy...

[damduck-egg]

I expect Capitols is a fairly heavy duty one but approx a decade ago B and Q stocked thes ,possibly only one batch.

Can't remember what I paid now ,somewhere between £100-£150 which may have been a sale price. Proved to be a boon to my elderly Father who was then in his early eighties . Main Job was moving Logs from the various sheds where they were stored till seasoned and into the porch ready for the Rayburn. Unlike some of the powered wheel barrows I have seen this little plastic job called the LUV which stood for Lawn Utility Vehicle had low sides which made loading easy and being a trycycle design did not require any lifting action from an elderley body. Did the job admirably for a decade till he got too old even to walk far. I did had to repair the direction switch but,that was the fault of my young Nephew and Neice or rather my Sister who let them treat it as a Toy one afternoon and they rode around in it as if it was a Dodgem car. Got rid of after Dad died and Mother moved on, no further use for it and the battery needed replacing by then. It was a US firm who had had it made but when I looked up for a new switch it had already changed hands once and wasn't being sold anymore. G.Harman

G.Harman

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

It simply can't, as you are always moving AWAY form the source of the cable (the pile).

[Tim Watts]

And yet, in reality, you are quite disproven.

You know, scientists, when they have an idea, but it's contradicted in reality say "what's wrong with the theory?"

You're not a greenie are you?

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

No, just someone who's used a mower without such a problem.

[Tim Watts]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...

[Tough Guy no. 1265]

It's proof that the other person is incompetant. Nowt special about my cable.

[spuorgelgoog]

Hence use an extraction hose which runs from the mower to a compost-bin at a convenient fixed location.

Owain

[Tim Watts]

Bollocks it is...