Dangerous Lawnmower Stunts?

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Down yonder a reader asks concerning robotic lawnmowers that automatically cut people’s grass:

“Isn’t that dangerous? What if there are kids in the neighbourhood?”

It might well be. I don’t know what kind of safety precautions these things have or what laws there may be concerning where they can be used.

However, here’s an even more amazing lawnmower engineering thingie (cowboy hat tip: Southern Appeal).

It’s called the Sky Cutter, and you can order your own kit to make one remarkably inexpensively.

For the record, this isn’t a lawnmower that has been rejiggered to fly. It’s a model airplane that has been rejiggered to look like a lawnmower, one of a number of novelty model aircraft produced by FlyingThingZ.Com.

Most amazing is a film of the Sky Cutter in action–set to the tune of Cotton-Eyed Joe. As they put it at Southern Appeal: “Pure (Redneck) Genius”!

YEE-HAW!!!

WATCH THE MOVIE (Windows Media Player)

GET YOUR OWN SKY CUTTER KIT

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

4 thoughts on “Dangerous Lawnmower Stunts?”

  2. Great video! This thing would get the neighbors talking. Nothing like a flying lawnmower to freak out the norms.

  3. I wonder how they get something with such an odd shape to even fly.
    It looks like they even have a flying Snoopy (vs. the Red Baron) with his Doghouse in development.
    That is so cool.

  4. Hi Jimmy. Just wanted to let you know the link that you linked to for the video is on my site. I redirected the link you have to my blog, where people can find it on there.
    Thanks!
    Dave

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