Hey Yardman, thanks for the ride

27.March 2007

Hey Yardman, thanks for the ride

May I proudly present my lawn that I mowed yesterday. My dad explained me how to ride our yardman, which is our supersize (well, the German understanding of larger) lawnmower. The following picture shows my dad and Nathan on it last summer: What a fun to ride it! I has a brake and a gas paddle, gears (drive, reverse, and neutral), a lever hold for the mow tools, and the speed shift. On its back you have a handle that you pull to open and empty the box in which you collect the mowed grass.
If you forget to put the mow tools up before you drive backwards, or you mix up the order of start-brake-shift gears-mow tools down-gas-drive-brake-mow tools up-shift reverse-go-and so on…you will hear a loud bang, which means: misfire - BANG! Not good for the engine…and it happened to me once. The neighbors must have heard my shriek, hihi. Very scary when you sit on the yardman and it goes off with a very loud bang. I thought that the whole wagon will explode.
Our garden is a little bit larger than usual gardens, so we have quite a lot lawn that needs to be mowed (~3000 square metres). My dad and I mowed alternately. I hope the grass grows fast, so that I can do it again, because it is fun. Yeah! What was no fun at all is removing the moss that grows all over our lawn. We used a verticulator to spike into the lawn to give it air and to remove the moss. We worked the whole afternoon, bu we still have 80% of mossy grass area. Sigh.