The Slow Death of the Internal Combustion Engine

[hayden55]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

200 sqft. Neighborhood kid & $5

Dang you guys have tiny yards lol
I've used one of the manual lawn mowers before though as a kid and almost died. Forget whipping your kids... Make them mow two week tall grass with the manual push mower in the 90 degree sun in Arkansas. I'd say thats at least 1/5 of an acre of grassy character building.

[Piotrsko]

Left coast and newer houses. Dirt here is more expensive than the stuff put upon it

[freebeard]

Make them mow two week tall grass with the manual push mower in the 90 degree sun in Arkansas.

Teach them to choose the wrong tool for the job?

[hayden55]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Teach them to choose the wrong tool for the job?

Pretty much. Thats kind of how I see most of the electric lawnmowers if you have a decent size lawn (my neighborhood average is 1/3 of an acre).

[freebeard]

I wasn't thinking of the size so much. A reel mower scissors the grass blades and a rotary mower shreds the blades which promotes dehydration. But a reel mower chokes on anything more than some fraction of an inch of growth.

Once it gets too tall for a rotary mower your back to a sickle bar or a scythe.

...youtube.com/results?search_query=speed+scythe+competition

[Xist]

My last supervisor insisted that a reel mower was rotary.

That was pretty much my entire experience there, my supervisor telling me that easily-proven statements were wrong.

[Taylor95]

Looks like we have several automakers on the electric pickup bandwagon now. I'm interested to see how well these things are received.

On a different note, I don't think we ever discussed how heavy these electric cars are. I think the Tesla model 3 tips out at 4000 lbs. It is probably terrible to drive on the snow.

[Piotrsko]

Well 400# more or less for the battery, 400# give or take for the drive & electronic added to base weight.

Should be excellent in the snow, but excitingly dangerous on ice, particularly if they added weight to behind the cab.

The ranger goes better in the snow than the 250. They both suck on icy streets without chains or studs

[Xist]

Snow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GAdW4Xa3MU

Ice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIADZHLHGL0

[Taylor95]

Interesting video on snow.

The other video makes it seem like a great way to get stranded at work in the winter.