The Castle is on it's way - and might even be here tomorrow.

I have to shuffle things in together, as with a retired budget I just can't have everything I want.
And then there's what my house needs...
And then there's putting wheels together...
And then there's the bloody lawnmower!


Do you know, if it weren't for depriving snakes of a hiding and breeding ground I would have no real idea why it is that people put up with a lawn at all, I mean what good is it? You can't EAT fooking grass, so it doesn't help with the groceries. The mower (even when it IS working) consumes it's own share of expensive fuel, and if it doesn't rain enough you have to water it (Which is a thing one of my neighbors refers to as "Pouring out money onto the ground")

I think the only purpose having a nice lawn truly serves is allowing Lawn and Garden corporations to seize us all well and truly by the danglies.

I'm also waiting for the movie "1" which is about the early years of Formula One Racing

 

You can eat snakes

 

Grass seed $15
Mower $150
Seeing your children play on the lawn untill they step on a patch of prickles because you cheaped out on weed kill


priceless.


also

try movies

dirty deeds (not porno)
Two hands (also not porno)
And Yahoo serious, reckless kelly and young einstein

 

The mower I'm hassling with actually cast me round about $100 in parts - it was given to me when a guy ran a one year old lawn tractor out of oil by not ever checking it...

I used to have the skinny half of the rod hanging on a note that read "Check your oil every time..."

~The large end for the most part disintegrated, but the crank survived with minor scuffing.

I have a line trimmer that actually cost me more than it, but that tractor new would have been about $2,500.

I've been thinking about my idea of what a lawn tractor ought to be built like. The belts that run under this one are about as long as they can be, and I wondered "WHY?" It's gotta be a weakness in the design...

The deck is also tucked up under the middle, making even the simplest maintenance on it a royal pain.

It seems to me the best place for the deck would be on a lifting frame attached to the front of it, so that you could have a chance to cut up anything that might punch a hole in a tire, but NOOOOOO!!!
They just don't make 'em like that.

To keep the belts on it nice and short, reducing their overall cost and the effects of gradual stretching it might be a damned good idea to make the distance from the engine to the drive wheels as short/close as possible. All of this seems frankly obvy-fooking-us to me, so I can't imagine why lawn and garden engineers don't think that way. But if the drive wheels are to be close to the engine, and the deck to cut grass with hangs from the front - it points very directly at a front wheel drive tractor to begin with, that might have one hell of a better chance of backing up when it got stuck because of the weight distribution.

DO THE MANUFACTURERS THINK SO? "Oh GOD no, that would be fookin' mechanical heresy! What on earth would it end up looking like?"

If it works well, who cares, eh?

It isn't a bad design, what we have here is an entirely flawed concept from the very inception!

 

Have you worked out why our sense of humour is so warped yet?

Mostly it's the heat. Warped like a 78 left in the sun!

 

Also the price of F-trucks in Australia is a joke!