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Do any American Boomers here remember the quality lawn mowers of old?

I'm a Boomer (born 1961). One thing I am not, however, is stuck is some fantasy that everything "back then" was better. It wasn't. I'll take my current Honda over any 1960's or 70's mower I had to deal with "back in the day."

But some of my generation seem to be caught is some sort of fantasy that only allows them to see today in light of a highly and selectively glorified yesterday. I'll pass.
 
Nobody is talking about the real enemy here....lawns!!!!!


Lawns are archaic water sucking symbols of suburbia. We HTers worship the wild untamed forests - do we retreat back to our cozy white picket fenced houses and our immaculately mowed lawns? I say nay!

In all seriousness I'm married to a water-conservation guy and the first thing we did to our non-middle-of-nowhere living situation was go completely xeriscaped. It's not attractive 80% of the year but also, I hate yard work so it's great.

Those 50s ladies with 10" waists can mow all they want, I'll be sitting on my porch drinking a beer and laughing.
 
I'm no boomer but my John Deere 14sb has been kicking for 30+. When the deck breaks I have spares ready to replace it.

My dad tried replacing his old 14sb with a new honda and it got stolen a week later while he was inside for a drink... right back to the Deere he went.
 
As an elder millennial (nay Xennial), I find the idea of a bright green lawn an absolute waste of water and time. I did 100% of the lawn mowing from about 8 to 12 until my brother got old enough then we split the duty...push mowing about 2 acres with a mower that used to be self-propelled but broken. In the summer, we cut trees Mon-Fri and mowed the lawn on Sunday. This spring I'm ripping up a chunk of my yard and planting native flower.

I agree about the part about the centerfolds though. Dad had stacks hidden...all from the 70s so they were invented before the mower.
You anti-lawn commies take your prairie yard rhetoric to the depths of Reddit! Everyone in my neighborhood gossips about my lawn stripes and it makes me feel better inside.

I’m not a complete monster though, I plant a pollinator garden.
 
Combination of yard, xeriscape and native trees/grass/brush for me. I kinda hate my yard but that’s probably mostly due to my completely awful clay soil

This thread🤦‍♂️. I feel bad for contributing
 
Nobody is talking about the real enemy here....lawns!!!!!


Lawns are archaic water sucking symbols of suburbia. We HTers worship the wild untamed forests - do we retreat back to our cozy white picket fenced houses and our immaculately mowed lawns? I say nay!

In all seriousness I'm married to a water-conservation guy and the first thing we did to our non-middle-of-nowhere living situation was go completely xeriscaped. It's not attractive 80% of the year but also, I hate yard work so it's great.

Those 50s ladies with 10" waists can mow all they want, I'll be sitting on my porch drinking a beer and laughing.
Tom would probably tell you less bitchin’ more kitchen. 😂
 
As an elder millennial (nay Xennial), I find the idea of a bright green lawn an absolute waste of water and time. I did 100% of the lawn mowing from about 8 to 12 until my brother got old enough then we split the duty...push mowing about 2 acres with a mower that used to be self-propelled but broken. In the summer, we cut trees Mon-Fri and mowed the lawn on Sunday. This spring I'm ripping up a chunk of my yard and planting native flower.

I agree about the part about the centerfolds though. Dad had stacks hidden...all from the 70s so they were invented before the mower.
 
Nobody is talking about the real enemy here....lawns!!!!!


Lawns are archaic water sucking symbols of suburbia. We HTers worship the wild untamed forests - do we retreat back to our cozy white picket fenced houses and our immaculately mowed lawns? I say nay!

In all seriousness I'm married to a water-conservation guy and the first thing we did to our non-middle-of-nowhere living situation was go completely xeriscaped. It's not attractive 80% of the year but also, I hate yard work so it's great.

Those 50s ladies with 10" waists can mow all they want, I'll be sitting on my porch drinking a beer and laughing.
When the BLM/ Forest Service remodeled their building several years ago, they decided to become more eco-friendly. They replaced all the lawns with native plants and grasses and let it grow wild. I took one look at that and realized that it looked exactly like my lawn right before mowing. I was doing it right all along, if I would just ditch the old lawn mower.

I'm so much happier now.
 
I give her props. The poor lady probably has a grandkid that sitting on his a$$ inside playing video games waiting for grandma to get done mowing so she can get him a snack.
I started mowing for my folks at age 11. It was 1975. Atari Pong was released in 1973. We never had one. My father said it would screw up people's television sets. We had some lawn mower called American Eagle or something with a 3-horse Briggs. Had that classic T handle instead of the newer shopping cart handle. Non-motorized push mowers still have that classic handle.

 
I'm a Boomer (born 1961). One thing I am not, however, is stuck is some fantasy that everything "back then" was better. It wasn't. I'll take my current Honda over any 1960's or 70's mower I had to deal with "back in the day."

yep
 
My uncle had the identical Jacobson reel mower in the 50s. Then he moved to Lawn-boy. I always had Lawn-boy till the 90s.
 
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