I woke up and read the news and got a little envy when I saw that someone has set a new lawn mower speed record. By now, I’m sure the world over especially if you are connected in anyway via television or internet or if you have friends that are too free, they would have emailed you some articles about “fastest lawn mower on earth” feat. If you think that hitting over 80mph is a not a big deal, think again. This is more dangerous than racing go carts. There’s no rotating blade to cut your body parts if anything goes wrong. And in a go kart, at least, they have been engineered to go fast.
I’m envious for 2 reasons. First the lawn mover is faster than my wife’s car (aka motor cycle on wheels boneshaker), that I drive from time to time. I hope my wife don’t read this. Otherwise, I’ll end up buying her a new car or she will steal my ride. I’m cheap/broke so I can’t afford to get her some new wheels, but that’s another story.
The second reason I’m envious
is that I get to mow my own yard. I hate mowing lawn because
- a. it is hot and tiring work
- b. I use a terrible electric trimmer that spins at tens of thousands of rpm
- c. my lawn is too small for a sit in lawn mower.
- d. I’d rather been sipping ice tea
If my car engine can spin at that speed, it would be great, but not. Back to the record breaking lawn mower at hand. Don Wales, a heart surgery survivor apparently decided to do something useful and created Project Runningblade. I wonder why people do great things after heart surgery. Can’t they just do something great without having someone cut you open. For over forty years of my life, I haven’t really done anything remotely close to being categorize as good, let alone great. Maybe until something happens that required me to be cut open before that happens. Perhaps I should have my appendix cut out but I won’t bet on it making me do something great. I’d probably antagonize my doctors too much that they won’t think of stitching me back together.
And so project Runningblade’s lawn mower managed to hit over 80mph in Pendine Sands. Don is still trying to touch the magical 100mph (160kmh). It will make me more envious since my wife’s car can hardly touch 80mph (129 kmh) unless it is on a long long downhill road.
Having been watching some past episodes of Overhaulin, I was very tempted to find a lawn mower engine and hack it into my wife’s car. After all, if Chip Foose can turn junk into gold
The closest search I got online was a company called Dixie Chopper with a tagline “world’s fastest lawn mower”. Looking at the models they have, I’m not convinced. Perhaps they are fastest at cutting grass but based on the shapes alone, I’d say they won’t cut in when it comes to forward motion. Heck, they even have a diesel version.
Oh, there’s a third reason why I’m envious. If a lawn mower is fast and cheap, that’ll be better than a normal car right? Like I said, I’m broke/cheap.
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