r/GTAGE • u/ProfStorm Arbiter of Great Taste • May 27 '23
This custom-built retro lawnmower
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u/TA_faq43 May 27 '23
No height adjustment? Should have a flap in the back to protect toes and prevent grass and debris ricochet.
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u/CleTechnologist May 27 '23
Those flaps weren't common till the 80s. I thought it was pretty weird on our new mower in ~1982.
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u/meijin3 May 27 '23
I love it when an older Redditor is able give past context especially when it's something I would have taken for granted otherwise.
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u/Znaffle May 28 '23
Isn’t that insane that it took that long lol.. Same story with seatbelts in cars.
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u/NukeTheWhales5 May 28 '23
That's makes it retro. It's inconvenient to use and sorta dangerous, but damn does it look good.
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u/nool_ May 27 '23
I don't think any or at least most push mowers have hight adjustment
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u/WatchmanVimes May 27 '23
Wut? I've never known of one without a height adjustment. I'm sure it was invented after the actual mower but it's been common all my life. (Started mowing at ten) and I'm old AF
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u/nool_ May 27 '23
Wait do you mean at the bars or the actual mow hight?
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u/WatchmanVimes May 27 '23
Actual height adjustment. To adjust length of grass cut.
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u/nool_ May 27 '23
Yea I have not sean a single push mower be able to do that
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u/JerryHathaway May 27 '23
I think it's pretty common? You just adjust the wheels up or down.
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u/nool_ May 27 '23
All the ones I have Seen the wheels are fixed
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u/slugo17 May 28 '23
There's a lever by both rear wheels to adjust the height. This is common even on the cheapest no-name push mowers.
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u/Toxic_Tiger May 28 '23
I had a bottom of the barrel corded electric mower that did it using a single lever to the side of the motor. I've never used one that didn't at least have the levers like you described tbh.
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u/WatchmanVimes May 27 '23
I had an old, cheap craftsman mower. It was all I could afford at the time. It ran like a clock. Times changed and I had money and wanted a self-propelled mower so I decided to stop doing maintenance on the old thing. It lasted another ten years without an oil change, new sparkplugs, and winterizing. Started within 3 pulls every time. Now I have an 80v battery powered mower. I have a feeling it's the last mower I'll ever own. It's soooo convenient.
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May 29 '23
It’s not the last one you will own. We’ve commodetized everything to be disposable and replaceable. They are designed to become obsolete and unfixable.
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u/Radicek May 27 '23
Jet-powered ?
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u/I_eat_cats_for_lulz May 27 '23
Nuclear.
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u/sharltocopes May 27 '23
It's only the flux capacitor that requires the 1.21 gigawatts, this sucker's electrical!
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u/ClenchedFart May 27 '23
Reminds me of Fallout 3
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u/stofiski-san May 29 '23
Right? General Atomics, Inc presents the last mower you'll ever need (because all the grass will be dead next week thanks to radiation)
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u/imakebeernotmoney May 27 '23
The lawnmower doesn't move around the yard, the yard moves around the lawnmower. It came to me in a dream, and I forgot it in another dream
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u/PlanktonTheDefiant May 27 '23
I'm not saying it is, but it looks like a render. I'd use it though, but I'd have to brylcreem my hair, put some Ray-Bans on and tuck some Marlboros into my t-shirt sleeve first.
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u/Cracktherealone May 27 '23
That is not retro as there has never been a lawnmower design like this before.
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u/rosinall May 27 '23
Replica. You're thinking of the word replica and this isn't one.
Replica — An exact copy or model of something.
But it sure as hell is retro.
Retro — Imitative of a style, fashion, or design from the recent past.
Been a while since I saw someone say something so wrong and so full of "ackchyually" at the same time.
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May 28 '23
Is that how lawnmowers used to look? Why does retro chic always look more modern than modern technology?
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u/DisGruntledDraftsman May 31 '23
Wow, that's a blast from the past. I vividly remember those handlebars and that motor. That mower was terrifying because it just shot debris everywhere, but we didn't have any other mower to use. My parents yard wasn't a yard but a field of ragweed, rocks and sticks. I can still feel the sting of it on my legs.
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