I took the day of Monday to get some stuff done around the house. I installed a ceiling fan in our bedroom, put up Kobe and Alessi's growth charts, installed a hoist to store my bike sus
pended from the top of the garage, changed this lightbulb at the to
p of our stairs and bought a push reel mower to replace our Honda lawnmower after it wouldn't start. OK that doesn't sound like a lot of stuff, now that i write it down...but it was...really.
My dad was just telling me a couple of weeks ago how his honda mower had failed and the repair shop couldn't tell him what was wrong and they were going to charge him for looking at it. My Honda mower is 10 years old. After paying 10 bucks for 3 gallons of gas for the mower and my gas-powered weed wacker, then not being able to start the mower, the gas is fuming up the garage, I was fed up and decided to go old school. I'll tell you that this thing works like a charm too. In a lot of ways, it seems like more R&D has gone into this push reel mower than my gas-powered one. The push reel has 5 blades and a sort of fly wheel, so it seems much more efficient. If you think about it, I'm having to walk the lawn anyway with the gas-powered one and it does take effort to fight against the self-propulsion and push to tilt and turn the mower. The push reel mower is smaller so it takes up less room in the garage, i can carry it through the back yard to the front 'yard' and it's appropriate for the amount of yard that we have. Using a gas mower for our strip of grass in the front and small back yard is overkill.
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