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A) huge fun
B) horrible death-trap
C) both?
Discuss.
Having watched lots of episodes of Superchamps back in the day, I believe that steering one would be problematic.
Otherwise, I'm all for it.
So a hovercraft with rotating bladed underneath? 🤔
The floor buffer at work (a pointless activity to keep us occupied) was really good to ride but if you got your weight distribution wrong it would grip and spin round. If you were lucky the plug would pull out before the cable snapped.
I once tied a positive pressure ventilation fan to a large wheely bin …. That was fun too but difficult to steer!
Have thought about this numerous times when having to cut acres of saturated lawns.
I like the idea but definitely want to be sat on the hover mower rather than nearby should it hit a dog turd
I love things with engines, however the most frustratingly disappointing day of motorsport I’ve ever done was on racing hovercraft. They’re just a bit shit. They’re neither fast enough nor controllable enough to be fun. They ground out easily as the skirts need to be huge to accommodate any sort of real terrain undulations. But if they’re huge they get caught on things, tear and drop the cushion, leaving you stranded, or hovering around with a severe list.
The big ones had four giant props as otherwise they’d be at the whim of the wind. Navigating a garden with one source of propulsive force would be a real pain in the arse.
My school built one for both racing and to act as a low impact crop sprayer. It was so uncontrollable that they had to fit it with bicycle wheels fore and aft to keep it in a straight line.
Worse than a neglected Asda trolley. I’m out.
Very bizarrely this just appeared in my Facebook feed.
Hot_fiat, do you feel that adding blades would enhance or detract from the experience?
I think if they combined the stretcher with blades they may be onto something. A place to put a mop, broom and chilled storage for anything that gets erroneously detached could make it a winner.
I had to click on this just to make sure World Class Accident didn't have a new project.
I had to click on this just to make sure World Class Accident didn't have a new project.
😱 I’m envisioning some sort of Frankenstein 2cv/ransomes gang mower/sanders roe amalgam.
Omfg what has this done to my YouTube feed? Also, what mind altering drugs were British boffins on in the 60s?
Terrible idea imo. Having used fly mowers they are just shite never mind a ride on one. Really terrible at clogging up on anything but bone dry grass.