Lawnboy / Lawnbastard

Last summer as I was getting ready to go on vacation, I remembered that my lawn needed to be cut. So that Saturday morning with the car packed and my dog eager to get on the road, I took out the “Lawn Bastard”.

This fine piece of machinery was at least 20 years old and I got it from my father. My father rarely bought new, he was trained as a mechanic.

The grass was getting long, even by my standard. I took out the old lawn mower, pulled the cord… and nothing. I pulled and pulled… for half an hour…arrrrg! I had to give up, got the dog in the car and away I went to Golden Lake.

While away relaxing at camp, I had decided to get a new cheap lawn mower. Fast forward a week and there I was at home depot looking at the summer leftovers. The last piece of yard equipment I bought was a snowblower by Mauray… it blew. I’ve had a lot of problems with it and realized in hindsight I should of paid a bit of more money and got a better blower.

So I took the leap and bought a Deluxe Lawnboy. I’m not the type of person to buy deluxe all the time but with this mower, it was worth it. This blurb came about this weekend when I was taking out the lawn mower, I had to get a snapshot as a record of ten years of mowage.