WEEDEATER JUST-FOR-FUN
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That's my goal! haha:laughing:
Glad we got your goat, Fanatic!
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quite a story Elias, and i'm sorry for your loss. i lost my dad too in 2006. as for taking out weeds, i bought my echo srm-2100 new in 1998 and it's still a great machine. runs just like new. i had an electric weedeater when i was a kid and i hated it. the guy next door to us had an awesome echo, one like i wished my parents would buy but it never happened. they never bought a snapper for me either. o well i got 'em now. anyway, as for tedious, i rather enjoy the "tedious" job of sweeping the garage, walkway, sidealks and gutter with my trusty old broom. no blower needed. there's something theraputic i guess (for lack of a better word) about using the broom to make a messy concrete surface clean again. i enjoy it anyway.
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Thanks Snapper, for your sentiments. If one gets ill enough, and, with dad, like a light bulb going dim, as his mind was going out as quickly as his body, then death is actually a relief, not only for him, but for the family members tending to hourly needs.
The funniest part about it, I found out he wasn't really my dad until after he died. And they say secrets go to the grave, hee- hee. He adopted me so I wouldn't be raised up being a bastard.
Likewise, my parents, (mom being an feminist thought women were better than men in everything, except yard chores, which were dirty jobs left for men to do, because they are slobs anyway.)-would go about doing work the cheapest possible way. What cheaper way to go, when you have a male kid around, who knows he will get his butt whipped for not complying to their whims. Got dad barking orders, because, if I didn't do what was expected, then mom would come after dad, and then both would come after me and apply some form of punishment. And to cut the grass, the only thing we had was an old reel mower that he acquired back in the sixties, although it was made in the 30's Tried to convince him that we needed a gas powered rotary- he didn't believe in gas powered anything, except 1 family station wagon used for both lugging family around, and utility purposes.My yard experiences started in the early 70's and went on until '78, when dad wanted to separate from the family because of personal problems focused around mom and her faithfulness.
Eventually ended with a divorce, which opened the floodgates with several other problems, that would take weeks to describe on paper.
Anyway, I followed my dad's examples, and pretty much use them today. I also understood mistakes he made, and bent my thinking to prevent making the mistakes. For other mechanical fallacies, you can seek out other threads, if you want. The most we can do is keep it entertaining, although most of the stories are close to the truth. The forum owners won't let one post the absolute truth.
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can't remember the model, fanatic. this was back in the early '80s and i was around 7 years old but he also had an awesome commercial snapper sp. i hated the old craftsman mower we had, flimsy. we also had an old yellow electric weedeater too. sort of got the job done.
do u still have that old reel mower from the '30s Elias?? we used to have one probably similar to that. it was my grandparents, the first mower i ever used. wish i still had it. i always check yard sales for an old one like it bust havnt found one yet.
do u still have that old reel mower from the '30s Elias?? we used to have one probably similar to that. it was my grandparents, the first mower i ever used. wish i still had it. i always check yard sales for an old one like it bust havnt found one yet.