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Saturday, April 24, 2010, 05:27
Quiet Clipping
So far I am really enjoying the reel mower we bought a few weeks ago. We have gotten it out a number of times to cut areas of the lawn that grow tall quickly first thing in the spring, such as over the drain field and in other spots. That's one thing about grass in the spring. It does not grow evenly.
The reel mower has a quiet, soothing whir. It's actually a relaxing sound, compared to the roar of a gasoline mower.
And it's so easy to get out of the lean-to. Pull it out and start cutting grass. I don't have to spend 10 minutes or 15 minutes wearing myself out, pulling on a cord to try to get the mower started. As long as I can walk forward, the reel mower cuts grass.
It does a pretty good job, too. Randy and I have determined that our goal is to keep the grass in the lawn from getting waist high (especially over the drain field). We don't care if it does not look like a golf course.
I am surprised, too, that you can actually get quite close to things with the reel mower. Sure, I will have some clipping to do with my grass shears. But who cares? That's a quiet, relaxing activity too. I can do the trimming around the lawn and hear the birds sing at the same time, instead of having some roaring thing I'm holding in my hands that drowns out all other sound and scares the birds away.
Another thing I like about the reel mower is that it does not spray grass all over the place, such as back on my legs and head and arms if it is windy outside. When I mow with a gasoline mower and it's windy, I might as well resign myself to the idea that I will be covered with bits of grass clippings from head to toe when I am ready to come inside.
I also do not have to put up with clouds of dust when I cross the driveway -- or feel like I am in a sand blaster -- as I do with the gasoline mower. And I don't have to worry about rocks and sticks being propelled out of the mower as if someone were using a catapult.
When I am finished, I simply push the reel mower back into the lean-to.
I think, because the reel mower is so easy to use, that we have cut parts of the lawn much earlier than we have in the past. It always seems like such a chore to get out a gasoline mower and get it started. By that time, a person sort of feels like he or she has to keep on with mowing just to make it "worth it" to go to all that trouble to get the thing started. And since you feel like you have to mow the whole lawn once you get the mower started, you end up spending a lot of time at it.
I don't feel that way with the reel mower. I can get it out, mow for 10 minutes, put it away and not feel like I have been shirking my duty.
Another advantage, in addition to being good exercise, is that the reel mower does not use one single, solitary drop of gasoline. No fumes from the mower. And no "foreign oil."
It's like they say: "What's old becomes new again." What a great idea to revive the manufacture of reel mowers.
LeAnn R. Ralph
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