Flymo hover mower
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elizillaI never knew this was a thing, but apparently in the UK they have mowers that are like mini hovercrafts, that you can use to cut the grass on steep slopes without tearing it up with the mower wheels and overturning a tractor on yourself.
In the USA they're a specialty commercial item for golf courses, ie spendy. In the UK there are inexpensive ones for homeowners. But they're electric, so, not something you can power off the US grid. I guess that when your lawn is not much bigger than your living room and is full of rock walls and herbaceous borders, a mower the size of a vaccuum cleaner can be your main mower. But in the USA the money is in tractors.
Steve was talking about it because he's concerned the lawn service tractor guys will tear up the tender new grass on the slope out back, with their sloppy tractor work. We planted the grass late last year and it never grew enough to cut before mowing season ended. It's grown a lot in the last few days and is finally not looking like a mud sea out there, but it's fragile. I don't think we're going try to buy a hover mower, though. We will probably just put up stakes and string and make the lawn service guys stay off that area, let the grass get tall until it gets rooted a lot better.
In the USA they're a specialty commercial item for golf courses, ie spendy. In the UK there are inexpensive ones for homeowners. But they're electric, so, not something you can power off the US grid. I guess that when your lawn is not much bigger than your living room and is full of rock walls and herbaceous borders, a mower the size of a vaccuum cleaner can be your main mower. But in the USA the money is in tractors.
Steve was talking about it because he's concerned the lawn service tractor guys will tear up the tender new grass on the slope out back, with their sloppy tractor work. We planted the grass late last year and it never grew enough to cut before mowing season ended. It's grown a lot in the last few days and is finally not looking like a mud sea out there, but it's fragile. I don't think we're going try to buy a hover mower, though. We will probably just put up stakes and string and make the lawn service guys stay off that area, let the grass get tall until it gets rooted a lot better.
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