When Italian design and engineering meets Australian misuse

Kinja'd!!! "SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media" (silentbutnotreallydeadly)
11/04/2020 at 01:35 • Filed to: Mowerlopnik

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Things get a little ugly...

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Turns out that this is not an all terrain mower. Merely a long grass mower. Five years of being enthusiastically driven over many and varied a landscape ( whilst mulching inconvenient vegetation) by my mechanically unsympathetic mother left the blade guards heroically bent and twisted. So bent and twisted that the mower blades often had their way with them.

My late stepfather’s way of dealing with this was to simply tie the bitter and twisted guards up and out of the way.

Now that we have it, I got tired of ducking and cowering as my equally mechanically unsympathetic M’lady used it to chuck rocks and sticks everywhere as she wrangles the grass and weeds into line.

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So now I have commenced the Straightening. Which involves much hitting and bashing...and then welding...

... horrible welding!

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But now...at least one side sits flat again. And might be slightly more bend resistant. Though never pretty....

If it all goes bendy after this... I'll have to craft a couple of new guards. At least, clean steel will weld much more easily...maybe?


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
11/04/2020 at 03:00

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This Italian tragedy is one of my favorite things on Oppo.


Kinja'd!!! HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
11/04/2020 at 03:32

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Australian Misuse could be a punk band name. 


Kinja'd!!! SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
11/04/2020 at 03:49

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I look forward to their first single 'An Ode To Italian Engineering'.


Kinja'd!!! SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
11/04/2020 at 03:53

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It is clearly a machine made for and by lunatics. Hilariously, there is also an equally expensive and similar looking Japanese made iteration...yet another example of convergent evolution. 


Kinja'd!!! Ready for an adventure! > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
11/04/2020 at 07:53

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son of a BITCH! I WANT ONE!! We have 2 acres of downed overgrown swampland that I wrestle a DR Field and Brush mower through regularly. Full Ass Body Workout....and now I find out these exist...$14000.00 though...geez... is there a BaT for these?    https://orecamerica.com/riding-brush-mower-4wd/


Kinja'd!!! Nom De Plume > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles
11/04/2020 at 08:22

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“Australian MISSuse”, because women so far outnumber men.