Did someone ask "Where have all the cool mowers gone?"

This one's got '53 Stude and Ozzie & Harriet written all over it!

Nostalgia and a nice lawn for <$500.

http://newhaven.craigslist.org/grd/3226382472.html

That is awesomely insane! I love it

Love reel mowers so much better for the grass too.

That has modern product liability and OSHA violation written all over it. Too cool.

I too love reel mowers.

That thing is soo cool I might actually not totally HATE cutting the lawn if I had one.

What I really want is a flymo

I love how the cutting part is nice and exposed. Drink a beer, lose a foot.

DrBoost wrote: What I really want is a flymo

Flymo Rider?

Looks like the starter cord is angled to favor standing in front of the mower. Nice.

mndsm wrote: I love how the cutting part is nice and exposed. Drink a beer, lose a foot.

Mike wrote: Looks like the starter cord is angled to favor standing in front of the mower. Nice.

They ought to call it the Darwin, with the slogan: Removing idiots from the gene pool one at a time...

DrBoost wrote: What I really want is a flymo

http://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/lawn-mowers/hvt52/

^^^ mind blown

Small hovercraft with a weedeater attached underneath, that rocks! Might have to add that to the hovercraft wheelbarrow I'm building.

To the op, that's pretty darn cool.

Imagine that, and then image an outrigger reel on each side, for a total swipe of about 7 feet, and that was Dad's mower when I was growing up...

ST_ZX2 wrote: Imagine that, and then image an outrigger reel on each side, for a total swipe of about 7 feet, and that was Dad's mower when I was growing up...

that would be so awesome...

I used to use play with my grandmas reel mower when I was a kid... I loved that thing

might even consider a modern reel mower (that is hard to say all together haha) when we move back into a house...

JohnRW1621 wrote: That has modern product liability and OSHA violation written all over it. Too cool.

Remove the mower, and it looks like a miniature version of the Zamboni!

Every time I look at that mower I want it more and moar!!!

I bought a manual reel mower about three years ago. It was a ~$100 job from Lowes.

Mowing was great. Those who tell you that reel mowers are great, and that you'll get a workout haven't used a modern reel mower. It pushed easier than some rotary mowers I've used.

Two things ended it. One, the quality of the handle was very low. The design is too hard to describe here, but essentially, the handle is held in place in a way that fails if the handle bends inward. The tubing that the handle is made of is flattened in a direction that makes it easier for the metal that makes up the handle to bend inward. I two mowers this way, both within the Lowe's exchange period. The second thing that killed it was discovering it wouldn't cut weeds over four inches tall that have a round profile. It would cut grass, which has a flat profile. Weeds, it would ignore. If I never had to deal with a handle failure, I probably wouldn't have allowed the weeds to firm.

I returned it, and bought a Honda-powered big-wheel rotary. I still miss the reel mower sometimes. It's reasonably quiet and light, doesn't generate heat, and is somewhat fun to use. I think it's safer too.

Definitely needs to be part of the FARGO sequel.

My old neighbor in Montgomery, AL had a powered reel mower. It did the best job ever on bermuda grass.

I grew up pushing a reel mower around, and when I bought a mower for my house in the US I picked up a u-push reel mower for it. They're great up to a certain point - if you skip a week, you're screwed.

Keith Tanner wrote: I grew up pushing a reel mower around, and when I bought a mower for my house in the US I picked up a u-push reel mower for it. They're great up to a certain point - if you skip a week, you're screwed.

That's the key to reel mowing right there.

I've got an electric flymo. It's really not that great unless you want really short lawn.

Moriarty on the HAMB came up with this a couple years back:

Atomic Yardmaster FTW