Comments on: MOWZILLA!

MOWZILLA!

arto — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:50:13 -0800

Can your lawnmower do this? MowZilla, born a garden-variety (so to speak) Craftsman mower, is now a nitrous-oxide injected, vastly overpowered engine of destruction! (Google Video link) [previous tales of lawnmower abuse: Lawnmower Racing, German style or American style]

By: Relay

Relay — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:53:51 -0800

Yeah, but how does it handle?

By: Mayor Curley

Mayor Curley — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:55:14 -0800

If you make something like that, it's really cool. If you buy something like that, you're a cock.

By: Relay

Relay — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:06:52 -0800

Exactly Mayor Curley.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:08:57 -0800

What's the point?

By: itchylick

itchylick — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:12:51 -0800

What's the point? Yeah, why not a tractor?

By: HAMFIST

HAMFIST — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:13:16 -0800

I think the point was to make me spit budweiser all over my Dale Earnhardt commemorative jersey.

By: Zinger

Zinger — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:34:06 -0800

Meh. I'm waiting until I can afford a decent robot lawnmower.

By: hangashore

hangashore — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:38:56 -0800

MowZilla: everything you need in a yard browser.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:39:06 -0800

Shredding the christmas tree was cool. I've got some stumps in my yard I could remove with one of those.

By: kalessin

kalessin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:39:28 -0800

Mayor Curley wins.

By: If I Had An Anus

If I Had An Anus — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:42:12 -0800

*cries over spilt nitrous*

By: Doorstop

Doorstop — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:56:46 -0800

jesus christ, WHY?!

By: soma lkzx

soma lkzx — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:58:00 -0800

What's the point? Do you live in an apartment? Or in a desert? Grass doesn't cut itself, and you can't find true love without mowing it with this.

By: LordSludge

LordSludge — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:59:32 -0800

Okay, but can it do this??

By: Joey Michaels

Joey Michaels — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:21:15 -0800

So far, this is the best Metafilter thread about lawnmowers ever.

By: daninnj

daninnj — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:49:16 -0800

LordSludge, you should have linked to this video instead!

By: Ethereal Bligh

Ethereal Bligh — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:14:26 -0800

I did not expect to see a flying lawnmower today.

By: toomuch

toomuch — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:26:18 -0800

Did that kid really go eat part of the watermelon after it was torn in half? Priceless.

By: mosk

mosk — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:30:19 -0800

Nitrous injected lawn mower, meet turbocharged barstool racer. Let the games begin.

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:34:54 -0800

1) Nitrous? That makes me giggle. 2) Could this not make said mower very likely to asplode?

By: quin

quin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:00:42 -0800

While i thought the mower itself was pretty cool (i loved the three nozzle nitrous vent) the actual demonstration of it working was pretty unimpressive. Most mowers of average power would be able to do all the same things. Eating the pine tree is pretty cool though. That would cause the average mower to stall. So, in terms of actual usefulness, this mower is pointless. But in terms of neighborhood brinksmanship, it's like a nuclear weapon.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:42:06 -0800

I'm happy to see that it's just a nitrous-oxide mower. That means I can escalate to a top-fuel nitromethane mower. Or perhaps a gas-turbine mower using a helicopter engine.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:54:11 -0800

For bonus points, my DeathMower will use a big fuckin' electric arc to cut the grass instead of a shitty old blade. Or maybe a rotating plasma torch. Or -- and I think I'm on to something here -- I shall use the lawn-cutting potential of Chuck Norris.

By: quin

quin — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:00:33 -0800

ROU_Xenophobe, if i may be of assistance, let me make a couple of suggestions. 1.) Lose the wheels. Wheels are for people who don't have cross the enemy territory that is your front yard. Think tank tracks. 2.) The plasma torch is good, the electric arc is better, but consider this; twin blades, superheated by a torch port from your nitromethane tank. 3.) Finally, how about an argon laser hooked up to a beam-splitter which 'pre-cuts' the grass (and anything else) to the sides of your treads. Perfect for edging.

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:52:23 -0800

oh, hell no, guys ... i'm just going to tie up ann coulter ass end up to a wheelbarrow and let her chew her way through the lawn