I've not long come in from cutting the lawns....and...for the first time, went next door and cut theirs as well....because they are away for 6 weeks and I've done a deal...they bring me back some decent red wine from Spain and I cut their lawns.
Trouble was, I got the thing stuck on a lower lawn, the grass ramp back up again was too slippery...so....I thought i'd give it a go on a more shallow part, but at an angle.... you know, give it some welly and lean right over into the bank, with your backside mostly over the edge of the seat...what could possibly go wrong?
Very, very stupid thing to do...because, I rolled it.
Not much scares me, but that did. All I could think of as I was going over, was my mate's dad, who killed himself on his a couple of years back, when his landed on top of him.
As soon as I hit the deck, I was off...rolling away like a madman...straight into the stream.
The lawnmower ended up upside down, with petrol pouring out, so when I emerged from the stream (looking like God knows what)I had to right it pronto. Amazingly there's nothing wrong with it, although it smoked well before it started. It still has enough oil in it.
Won't be doing that again. It's one of these: tinyurl.com/blw9wk2
I got lucky, just an aching lower back and sore head.
Last edited by: Westpig on Mon 13 May 13 at 18:05
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