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What does your mower like to eat the most? Rocks, hoses, tree roots, sprinklers, toys, hay bail strings, snakes, rabbits, etc... Share your story:

I almost added a puppy to my list yesterday, came out of nowhere. Lucky! little guy.

Sprinkler Buddy said:

What does your mower like to eat the most? Rocks, hoses, tree roots, sprinklers, toys, hay bail strings, snakes, rabbits, etc... Share your story:

I almost added a puppy to my list yesterday, came out of nowhere. Lucky! little guy.

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That is both sad and scary. I NEVER mow when one of our four cats is out, and keep the yard picked up really well, have never mowed over anything except a stray rock two or three times with a pusher.

Back about 1997, my dad in law was using my Deere 318 to mow over at his house, and he ran it over a big section of chicken wire fencing that had come down from around a tree trunk, it was wrapped around the deck blades so tight I had to put the tractor up on ramps and cut it free. He never asked to borrow my tractor after that.

When I get wire wrapped around my blades, I have found it much easier to just drop the blade and it comes right off. Makes ya cringe, you just know the blades are all scared up when that happens. :laughing:

Sprinkler Buddy said:

When I get wire wrapped around my blades, I have found it much easier to just drop the blade and it comes right off. Makes ya cringe, you just know the blades are all scared up when that happens. :laughing:

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Good idea, but my deck had 3 blades and the stuff was wrapped everyplace including the spindles and the engine just kept running and spooling the stuff around and I could not even get to the blade bolts because the wire was had been wrapped with burlap too....Deere blades are tough it didn't even scuff them up.

other than a rare occasional tree root or finessing over city parkway where there is a lot of irregular unleveled concrete,not much trouble,but my bait issue is with the string trimmer. over time i have hit a lot of cable,string,plants,etc and had to shut down very very quickly to unwind.

Atleast One of are guys is good for a pile of dog poo with a weed whip once a summer. I've done it once. Not fun

Parkmower said:

Atleast One of are guys is good for a pile of dog poo with a weed whip once a summer. I've done it once. Not fun

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Has anyone ever calculated how far a mower blade turning at 3400 rpm can sling dog poo.

No but I've shot golf balls about 100yards

Parkmower said:

No but I've shot golf balls about 100yards

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Me too, better with the mower than a golf club. lol

I think the best thing my mower ever chewed up was a hot wheels car my son left out, it didn't like very well because it spit it across the yard.

Tennis balls, baseballs, toy cars, dolls and various and sundry other toys. Our neighbor's kids are always out playing in the road and I find baseballs and all kinds of toys that they either leave in our yard or that roll down the hill and into our yard. During the summer its not too hard to spot them, but during the fall and winter when we get a steady rain of oak leaves for 4 - 5 months, things get covered pretty quickly by the leaves and I find them while vaccuming the yard with my JD rider. I've returned quite a few mower mangled toys since they moved in a few years ago, they don't seem to care or understand that I don't want them left in my yard. The kids are finally getting old enough now that they aren't as prone to just leaving their toys wherever they get tired of playing with them, but it still happens occasionally.

I have had a few accounts like that in the past. I started picking the toys up and giving them to other kids, after awhile the toys started getting picked up or they just ran out of toys, not sure which. LOL