Who else cut grass with…

[DinoMikeSr]

…one of these as a kid?

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[jrockbridge]

I was not that fortunate. It was more like this…..

 

[BrammyH]

For a minute I thought this was going to be one of those manual push mowers.

 

[TomcatMF]

I was not that fortunate. It was more like this…..

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Me too, and when it wouldn't start it was the target of much verbal abuse. I think the cloud of profanity is still hanging over Orange County, CA to this day.

 

[shoeless]

I was not that fortunate. It was more like this…..

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Same here. Although when I was in middle school, I used to cut yards in the neighborhood with one of these. Nothing like getting saturated with 2-stroke exhaust in the hot summer sun. It kept money in my pocket though.

 

[micwalt]

I grew up in the mountains. We didn't have lawns. We did have to rake dead pine needles and have burn days. There was also a lot of splitting/stacking/hauling of firewood.
(Plus, I had to walk 5 miles in the snow to and from school, uphill both ways.)

 

[jrockbridge]

I grew up in the mountains. We didn't have lawns. We did gave to rake dead pine needles and have burn days. There was also a lot of splitting/stacking/hauling of firewood.
(Plus, I had to walk 5 miles in the snow to and from school, uphill both ways.)

We moved to LHC Arizona when I was in Jr High. No mowing of the gravel.

I didn’t have to mow again until I graduated from NAU and moved to Colorado. I still don’t have a riding mower. I have two belt drive, electric start, walk behind, Toro mowers with Briggs and Straton engines. Only one of them is running at the moment. I need to repair the backup Toro.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Same here. Although when I was in middle school, I used to cut yards in the neighborhood with one of these. Nothing like getting saturated with 2-stroke exhaust in the hot summer sun. It kept money in my pocket though.

LOL. Dad was given one of these, after a lawn care guy used it for years and years. I thought was the coolest sounding mower ever. It's what we used to trim around the house, bushes, etc. It was really wobbly when being pushed because the miles were big.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

I was not that fortunate. It was more like this…..

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LOL, understand, pop would usually get these on some sort of barter with junk. So, while it was a riding mower, it usually had quirks and if there any safety shields they were usually removed. Think lawn hooptie.

 

[mnewb1]

Looks similar... wish I had some photos from that time

 

[Andrew Sak]

I didn't have to mow a lawn regularly until later in life. Then I picked up a Murray, self propelled mower at Sears. I think it was made by the same folks that built the Murray bikes. Huffy had nothing on them, and vise versa.

*I switched to landscape rocks and ditched the lawn.