I find it insane that you can buy a used Toyota Camry with AC for the same price as a zero turn lawn mower.
I’ve often dreamed of buying a tiny car and welding a mechanical reel push mower to the front. Then I could mow the lawn with AC and relative quiet.
i give you The Ron Beer
That man is living my dream!
Completely different engineering (ZT transaxles are hydrostatic), but yea, it’s nuts they cost as much as a car.
Far, far less material, far less structure, no safety engineering (well, not like cars anyway), and frankly pretty low quality structural design and manufacturing. My family is always welding something back on, or replacing a part.
What the hell are they charging for?
I absolutely love the wild and crazy ideas that [never] came out of the 50s. The level of imagination and innovation, to me, is unparalleled; even today. Everybody, and their brother, were trying to pioneer this awesome and automated future, the likes of which no one (at the time) has seen.
On one hand, having a closed driver space is pretty normal for agricultural machines nowadays. On the other hand, most people’s lawns aren’t even big enough to have good reason for using a ride-on mower.
Lmao this is such an American photo
