A sign you have a crazy neighbor: he takes a lawnmower deck, some pipe, chains and welding supplies to make a hedge trimmer you can pull behind your riding lawn mower. Yes, that's right. My next door neighbor has made a trailer with a real gas lawn mower deck attached on the side so that he can trim his bushes in the most lazy way possible.
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I will try to catch a photo of him actually using this ASAP.
- Ben Hanten
If you zoom in, you'll notice there is not even a cage to protect his head from debris or flying lawn mower blades.
- Ben Hanten
Laziness is the mother of invention.
- Kimber Scott
can I borrow that?
- Jim #teamFFrank
I like it
- Charlie Anzman
Oh it would make a great zombie killer, if you were prepared to mow down zombies at 4mph.
- Ben Hanten
It just seems like your zombies killed per hour (zkph) would be too low with this model.
- Ben Hanten
I think there was a Darwin Award winner with something similar a few years ago, but maybe using rope. Either way, spectacular!
- Dave Roth
Maybe I will see if I can hire him to do my bushes, too. I'm just interested to learn more; are there drawings? Is this a prototype? Is he freaked out of his mind that a motor is spinning sharp blades behind his head? Also I would like to see him fill this up with gas. And start it.
- Ben Hanten
My other neighbor told me this existed and I didn't believe it. I had to snap the picture tonight when I saw it.
- Ben Hanten
That's ingenuity for you. Not very safe though. I can imagine hearing "kids get inside, the neighbor is mowing his lawn!"
- David C. Cooper
What if you're turned too quickly? Can you imagine that top-heavy trailer tipping over? Holy crap....
- Ben Hanten
that's awesome
- Steve C, Team Marina
It's a little hard to sleep when you know a mad scientist lives next to you.
- Ben Hanten
More like signs you have an AWESOME neighbor!
- veo
I woke up this morning to a lawn mower sound! Rushed to the main floor window to take a look. Unfortunately it was just him using the weed eater. I may ask him to do my hedges today.
- Ben Hanten
That's awesome.
- Jordan Hofker
I just noticed now that one of the boxes on the other side is full of bricks for a counterweight. Man. This gets better.
- Ben Hanten
That is both awesome and terrifying.
- Jennifer Dittrich
LMAOOOOOO
- mocha59
I want one! This is how (well, with better technology) they cut back the brush or rural roads. They use a tractor with a mowing deck attachment that they raise up sideways.
- Adam Turetzky
Stay tuned. I met with Ray this morning -- I learned a lot from him. And I have a video. :)
- Ben Hanten
New photos at http://friendfeed.com/benhant...
- Ben Hanten
Talking with the inventor at http://hanten.posterous.com/i-met-m...
- Ben Hanten
Youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ben Hanten
i love it, thanks for sharing (but i'm still scared, :o)
- chaz2b