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Wacky: Lawn Mower Abuse, Part 1

By Chuck Cage

Guy with too much time on his hands + lawn mower + T04 turbocharger = one unstable lawn-mowing machine.

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 11th, 2007 at 7:17 pm and is filed under Wacky. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Wacky: Lawn Mower Abuse, Part 1”

Andrew Says:
February 11th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Umm… You should wear shoes when you mow the lawn!
ambush27 Says:
February 12th, 2007 at 12:52 am
this just makes me want to change the valve timing and loosen the governor spring on my mower.
nrChris Says:
February 12th, 2007 at 7:45 am
There is currently a very cool RC lawn mower featured on Makezine:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/02/diy_rc_lawnmowe.html
Tom Says:
February 12th, 2007 at 10:45 am
No shoes is the first thing I noticed. What is this guy thinking. My father got toes in a lawnmower so he bashed it into my head that I had to wear shoes.

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