Springtime at BangShift Mid-West is wonderful. The sun is shining, the grass is green…and is growing like bamboo. I could’ve sworn that I just mowed the lawn not too long ago, but a quick walk around my yard said otherwise. How bad is it? Heading out the far property line, I scared the hell out of a nesting killdeer, got startled by a rabbit that I almost stepped on, and tripped over a 1991 Ford Ranger that was completely obscured by wildflowers and ragweed. And, of course, the neighbors just managed to get their nearly-dead zero-turn mower to cough and sputter into life, so now their lawn looks nice and trimmed compared to Wild Kingdom outside of my front door.
I like maintaining the lawn. It’s peaceful and gives me time to just enjoy the outdoors as the smell of cut grass and chopped oniongrass invades my nostrils and the little gnats try to chew off little nibbles of my face. But time management is a thing for me nowadays…much as I’d love to, I don’t often have a couple of hours to sit on the mower and chop up the lawn. Apparently, this guy doesn’t either, because he slapped together parts from a Fiat 128, SAAB 900, SAAB V4, DAF Tjorven, Ford Mondeo and a gritter and turned it into a monsterous plant-mauling device. Four passes later and I’d have a nicely mowed lawn and a gaggle of neighbors who would wonder what else I was cooking up in the shop!
As an ex local council employee who for many years cut grass using a ride on mower all I can say he either forgot to install the blades or was just showing off as that grass is too short to need cutting,
But its still a very cool machine!