Pluggers by Rick McKee for August 15, 2023

Isn’t he spewing carbon as he pushes that mower?

i bought a push mower last month…

Everything fair in lawn and war eh.

Carefully done so you don’t disturb the moles.

I had use that type mower growing up plus then had to go back and rake the clippings up I hated it

Beer?

No Gym needed when you use one of those ! Nice workout as I recall :-)

And the alternative fuels: beer, pie, cake, chocolate bars, bacon & eggs, steak, loaded baked potatoes, etc.

Sears “Silent Mower”. Just tall enough to smack me in the face whenever it hit a dirt clump.

I have one I bought from Sears a few years back. I also have one with a wooden handlebar that’s probably 70+ years old! (I also bought an electric one…)

There’s nothing wrong with that type of mower.

Nanny (great grandma) always made sure the blades were sharpened.

That’s what we used growing up. Good exercise and best of was the quiet. I loved it!

I have one of those.

Parents had a hand mower when I was a kid. Put some muscle on me since I was so little when I was little, took a bit of work but I managed (stubborn, still). Helped a lot in my journey with horses : ) Still use the same hand mower in my flower garden nowadays!

I have one of those to do touch up with or when you can’t run power ones.

My brother and I made summer money mowing with just such a lawn mower. It was quiet, so the customers loved it. We had practically no overhead and stayed fit.

A plugger’s Dad made him use one of those when he was fourteen but he now has a John Deer.

He should be drivin’ a John Deere.

Or he could move to Arizona and have a yard of grassless gravel. :)

I used one of those when i was growing up and liked the exercise it gave me. When I was taking care of my dad in later years, I got one to use instead of the gas one Dad had. I enjoyed using it, but it left some minor irregularity in the way the lawn looked and my dad asked me to stop using it.

I’ve rediscovered the joys of a manual reel-type mower — so quiet, good exercise but not too hard, the sound it makes is pleasant, and if you use it often enough it makes the lawn look lovely. No fussing, no engine to maintain, no smelly gasoline or exhaust, no cord, no batteries to recharge or eventually buy new ones (if they still have them).

My dad had one of those that he used until we moved to a house that had a HUGE yard. That’s when he switched to using a gasoline-powered one (and, of course, being a hoarder, he didn’t get rid of the reel one until YEARS later!).