Pretty cool. Used one when I was very little at my grandparents.

we need more of that thinking today

Works well with sharp blades and no long stemmy weeds. Just rolls over them. I used to have a tiff yard and the motorized reel type mower really makes a nice
short cut.

We didn't have illegal immigrants whom would mow, weed eat and blow the grass clipping for $25 per yard like we have now days.

We had one of those things when I was in the 4th grade. The house we lived in was situated on level ground, which was about 4 feet higher than the sidewalk out front. There was something like a 40 to 45 degree slope at the edge of the lawn that ended with a wall about 8-10 inches high next to the sidewalk. You cannot push one of those monstrosities down a slope that sharp the handle ends up over your head. So it's up slope each and every time.

This thing also had a bolt with a huge head on it that locked the handle to the shaft. Invariable there would be twigs on that slope and that damned thing would come to a very abrupt stop and that bolt head would center punch my scrawny chest. I'd have to get the stupid thing off the slope, pick the twig out, lift it above the retaining wall and gather momentum all over again. Oh, and Lord help me if I did not very carefully get that mower of the wall instead of letting gravity do the work.

I still hate even the sight of them.

That’s how I was raised.

I learned ag 3 yrs old don't stick your middle finger in it, cuts the crap of your finger....