• Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 days ago

    “riding mower…still requires a lot of physical labor” rofl

    This post caught me off guard when I first read it, I had to scroll up and see if it was the same person that wrote all that ridiculous shit nobody actually does while mowing and sure enough it was. Using anything other than a push mower doesn’t require a lot of physical labor, that’s just absurd. The most physical labor I’ve ever exerted other than a push mower was probably my tractor but that’s just because it’s old as shit and doesn’t have a hydrostatic transmission.

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      19 days ago

      If you think mowing is just riding on the mower then you probably haven’t had to tend property that many of these mowers were designed for. You also have to deal with a trailer full of cuttings, and run a string trimmer.

      Considering I sell hundreds of mowers a year, rebuild and repair them, and sell the accessories… I can say that I talk to many people who would agree with everything I said.

      Sure, some of my customers are like you. They don’t care what their property looks like. They do the bare minimum to keep from getting fines from the city. But that’s not the culture where I’m at.