[CAUT] using as ETD

[tnrwim at aol.com]

The push mower is great if you've got a small yard, (small grand), no trees, (no fals beats), a gentle slope, ( a little stretch), and the grass is only 5" high. (5 cents low).  But when you've 2 acres (20 pianos) of very hilly yard, (lots of false beats), with lots of trees and rocks and roots, (broken strings and loose bridge pins), then that riding mower (ETD), comes in very handy.  

Wim





-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu>
To: caut at ptg.org <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 4:37 pm
Subject: Re: [CAUT] using as ETD


Susan,
Maybe we've beat this analogy to death, but I just gotta ask. Don't you 
ometimes wish that when the grass is really high, and you're just too tired to 
ush, that you could sit on a 24HP riding mower and zip through it? <G> OK, Ok. 
'll shut up.
Warm regards,
B
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ent: Monday, April 12, 2010 8:24 PM
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But I also have a push-mower that I sometimes use just because I 
like the exercise. Makes me feel more involved. (And no, I'm not 
being facetious...<G>)
And the push mower doesn't make a racket, waking up the neighbors 
rom their Sunday naps. A push mower also doesn't force you to 
reathe fumes and it doesn't stir up dust and pollen as much as a 
ower mower. And it doesn't burn oil mixed with the gas (power mowers 
sed to do that, anyway) producing the same pollution as multiple 
ars; and push mowers don't waste fossil fuel. They take far fewer 
esources to manufacture, and push mowers last longer than an 
nternal combustion engine, if they are stored inside and not allowed 
o rust. In the spring you don't find that you have to take them 
part because you didn't drain the gasoline in the fall, and it 
elled in the carburetor. And you never will throw out your shoulder 
ulling the starting cord of a push mower.
I think of the ETD-aural argument the same way. You put up with the 
rawbacks of a power mower when you have too much lawn to mow. If you 
ust have a little bit of lawn, the push mower's a heckuva lot more 
ore fun to use, especially if you keep it sharp, lubricated, and 
ell adjusted.
There is something awfully pleasant about being in touch with the 
nstrument, without the distraction of any extraneous non-musical 
ata. People may call this a luxury --- well, it is, but a fairly 
nnocuous one as luxuries go.
As they say, life isn't a rehearsal.
Susan who uses wetware ...


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