Genealogy Forum UK

Well mower bother really
but it didn't rhyme

Wolvie went and bought a new mower yesterday....let me just
digress for a min....son wanted to earn some pennies so decided to allow
him to mow the meadow! the grass is so long!!
Unfortunately he hit a bit of metal and flymo was bust!....the billowing smoke sort of gave me that clue
So we had to pay son for what he had done, get a new mower and repair the other one
Great! and all on that lucky lucky day yesterday!!

Now my gripe is we got this pull cord one and I can't do it!!
Wolve can he has the knack!
I have pulled it and pulled it, and I just can't do it!
The petrol ones with a key are too expensive

Is there a knack to a vertically challenged person pulling a long cord!

Northern Lass wrote:
Now my gripe is we got this pull cord one and I can't do it!!
Wolve can he has the knack!
I have pulled it and pulled it, and I just can't do it!
The petrol ones with a key are too expensive

Is there a knack to a vertically challenged person pulling a long cord!

Just see it as an advantage, I have the same problem - so either my husband has to start it for me, or cut the lawn himself, if I say that our plot is over 3000 square meters, about half of which is grass you can guess which I prefer. That'll teach him not to buy a lawn mower I can sit on! (does have a motor though so although you have to follow it around you don't actually have to push!).
Sounds to me as though this is Wolvie's job!

I agree Snoopy.
Wolvie's the man for the job. NL shouldn't have to cut the grass!! Heaven forbid!!

Rob wrote:I agree Snoopy.
Wolvie's the man for the job. NL shouldn't have to cut the grass!! Heaven forbid!!

Well you wouldn't want Northern Lass's son to do it too often, that would just be too expensive

Hmm. In the summer, after three requests, my son went out to trim the hedge... did about 2 metres of it and the electric trimmers stopped working. They looked fine, nothing stuck in them, then I realised that genius son had cut 2/3 of the way through the cable (without tripping the earth leakage thingy). I still think it was done on purpose

gardener wrote:Hmm. In the summer, after three requests, my son went out to trim the hedge... did about 2 metres of it and the electric trimmers stopped working. They looked fine, nothing stuck in them, then I realised that genius son had cut 2/3 of the way through the cable (without tripping the earth leakage thingy). I still think it was done on purpose

Why wasn't I that clever as a teenager (or maybe sneaky ) I hated having to cut the lawn at my grandmother's. It wasn't big, but it was on a slope and I was expected to rake up the grass afterwards - I mean couldn't my dad have forked out for a grass box (It was his flymo)!! It was slave wages too!!

[Is there a knack to a vertically challenged person pulling a long cord!
[/quote]

It's the Knack 'ers' yer want:

If you try it two or three times it will be overchoked,
If it doesn't fire first or second time try closing the choke, then if it starts
just open the choke half way until at operating temp.

When I had to start cutting the grass myself I ended up getting rid of the petrol machine and investing in an electric one precisely because I didn't have enough sudden jerk pull to get it started -- indeed in trying my daughter and I tried to do a double act one holding the button in and the other jumping backwards -- we still couldn't get it to work!

They are definitely created for men!

sparkstopper wrote:[Is there a knack to a vertically challenged person pulling a long cord!

It's the Knack 'ers' yer want:

If you try it two or three times it will be overchoked,
If it doesn't fire first or second time try closing the choke, then if it starts
just open the choke half way until at operating temp. [/quote]

Is there a choke on them!

Just asked Wolvie
automatic choke
(hands round throat sort)

Son tried and he can't do it either!

Wolvie can sort it