Best Selling Lawn Mower Just Became ILLEGAL 

big fan of your vids.. i wonder if i can get my buddies in Japan to send me one.. this would be perfect for a certain friend's apt.. this would be perfect for him.. i will be searching.. Keep up the good work, We got a Water heater from your vids.. the Rheem Hybid.. u sold us on getting one..

I would buy one

I’m wondering how you got one and why you’re showing it to the world if it’s so illegal

​@@shanehatcher9394 He had someone help him, and that's not illegal because no retailer was involved, and the company still isn't selling it here. It's not illegal to OWN one.

I like the idea of a mower you can use like a rotary floor polisher, like you said for tough spots. But the use-case would be rare, and this would be way less efficient for mowing otherwise.

lol...... ROTFLOL..

So, he never does a good job.

@@deaconblooze1 Yeah, I had some problems with Jesus showing up drunk last year, but he hasn’t done that again ever since I bought a Border Patrol Ford F-150 at auction and parked it on my driveway. His English has improved significantly since then too.

​@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes😂

​@@Lettuce-and-Tomatoes Is there some clever joke hiding in your reply or is it just straight up stereotypical racism?

I ended up buying an Ego one purely because I didn't like a trailing electric cord which could be ran over

It was the flu.

​@@waqasahmed939What's the EGO mower model?

I always thought these were cool. The only safety thing I could think of is if maybe a wind caught it but it should have a safety on the handle so when you let go it stops. But mostly I thought they would be great on hills and scalping would be far less with its hovering action.

​​@@waqasahmed939you mow with the cable over your shoulder, then you can't run over it

How well does it work on your carpet?

@@nomusicrc the blades have no air moving function, it's the big wheel over them that does.

@@Braun30 I rewatched the video and deleted my comment

@@nomusicrc and now my comment is going to baffle newcomers 🤣

My buddy had a Flymo here in the US back in the early 80's but it didn't collect grass. it was super light and had a very low profile. in fact, he always hung it on the wall after use. But my question now is: Wouldn't the cut tend to get shorter as more grass collects in the bin?

Thats what they are really for.

I remember them in the ‘70s I think. Along the curb, it would blow the grass into the street. I don’t remember the cut being too even though.

They used a light weight 2 stroke motor. There was a hose running up the handle that drew air in to make it hoover. The operator controlled the air flow with a knob to raise or lower the deck.

I saw National Trust workers doing the same on the ruins of a medieval castle, only they had the petrol version on a rope and were hauling it up and down the slope which was too steep to walk up, by design. They were all the rage in the UK in the 70s and 80s but seem to have gone out of favour. If they did a petrol engined version of the one that picks up the grass I would get one, my lawn is too big and long for cables.

@@donaldasayers I’ve got a nice cordless electric lawn mower at my house in Texas, but it’s not a hovering model. I think the energy to make it hover would take too much power for the battery charge to last long.

We've got what is essentially 50 different countries who cant agree

There's no such thing as underregulate.

There go's the point.

@@kirbyis4ever I know, but it think the big problem ist the populist way that regulation is done at the moment.. Everything is kind of a statement, and used as bait for the next election - common sense is no longer in the driving seat.. Essentially I believe that the two big parties you have, could agree over a large array of topics - but they want to differentiate form each other at all cost... as if it would be a sign of failure to agree on something...

@@BatCorkill every OSHA regulation is written in blood and more are added all the time. I'd argue that they're the only body doing any real good with their regulations though.

It's our duty not to follow corrupt laws.

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Dont forget to buy a high flow toilet from Canada.

​​@@PandorasFollyyes we all love those water saving devices. Ones that need triple flushes to get it down, ones that ruin your clothes and fail to wash your dishes. Everything they say it is designed to do is actually the opposite. Time consumers begin to decide what they buy or sell again.

@@PandorasFollyYeah they are pretty much gone here now in Canuckistan

This can't be a thing anymore since I have never ever seen such a thing and I work with lawnmovers.

@@zerocool6452My Bosch cordless strimmer has a hinged blade design.

​@@zerocool6452probably went out of style due to extra maintenance, and the foot under the machine is still a problem. Just because it doesn't cause as much damage as metal doesn't mean people want a device that has zero friction to keep it in place and is still a hazard to their feet. Especially when metal blades do better work and having wheel makes the direction and momentum of the machine predictable.

Can someone clarify the foot-under-mower concern? The mower in the video looks like it has a much lower/safer clearance than any wheeled mower I've used. The gap looks way too short to get a foot anywhere near the blade.

@@steamer2k319 The mower lifts on a cushion of air. It can then move easily over someone’s foot.

similar to using a scythe instead your taking a back step and not a forward step

Or spike it into the center of the grass, and let physics do the rest.

What mower is this would come in handy

Must be using a really long extension cord! Oh wait, there is also a fossil fuel version.

🙄 Twenty minutes, assuming you can pass your NICS check. It takes at least five to fill out your 4473 and ten more for the seller to annotate their A&D book, call the FBI's NICS line and get mother government's permission to exercise your right to keep and bear arms.

@@bobthecannibal1 It's amazing to me that the rest of the world seems to think that anyone in the U.S. can just stick some cash into a vending machine and out pops a gun. Granted, that's how it should be, but instead there's a ton of paperwork to navigate through, and we've just got good at jumping through the government sanctioned hoops.

Don't worry, you can still buy a chainsaw with a 1 meter naked blade.

Takes a bit longer to get all the paperwork filled out than 5 minutes and your not doing it at walmart anymore. Alot of them stopped carrying guns a while back. Plenty of other places to go though. Still your point is valid, bit of nany state overreach once agian denying us good stuff.

There should be a horror movie where the predator goes around with a flymo threatening to chop off people's toes. Then make the politicians watch it and see how lame and inconsistent their ban is.

OMG, I remember that advert, that was a long time ago though. Most of the Flymo's I've had have used metal blades though 😂

People do the same with gas mowers.

@@_Minecraft_ASMR but these are a lot lighter.

@@_Minecraft_ASMR I'm sure they do but the weight difference would make me prefer using an electric if I'm going to throw it over the edge...

For the size of a UK front yard - perhaps :)

Just ignore the fact that it's hover and will just glide away. That it's light and the risk if "sliding under' is reduced because you don't need to drag so much weight of the hill.

Yea. True. I remember when I was a kid growing up in America I never heard one single person complain they didn't have a smaller lawn mower to mow their 12 acres. Your country could use them cause your yards are small. We need tractors to properly mow our land.

"tUrNs OuT iT wAs ThE sAfEtY pOlIcE aS uSuAl" Safety regulations are written in blood.

@@ZzZ-qd1zobut guns are ok duuurgh

​​@@ZzZ-qd1zosafety for the stupid in some cases (as well as this one)

Keep an eye on Toro they might be launching a battery wide cut mower seen in the USA in the UK soon.

Why?

It's a joke

@@paulschab8152 Drinking beer while mowing?

rip your dog

Nah, just an excuse for the boys in black to bust into his garage and destroy the thing as this product gives easy access to have long term commitment. Which means no more hybrid capitalist-imperial madness!

Yeah this definitely looks better than a John Deere, eXmark , Toro or Scag. 🤡

nah u see, thats just an anolog way for the mower to tell you to empty the bin. You gotta empty it u see

Wrong!

Maybe they got better in the last 30-40 years?

I had one in South Africa years ago. No grass-catcher, but it had a second blade that supposedly mulched the grass finely, and the fan drove it back into the ground. Worked OK with imported grasses, but failed badly with our native Kikuyu grass. I might try this model next time I need one.

I've cut some seriously deep grass with these things. In fact I have a photo (can't post here though 😕) from when I was using one to cut grass that was almost higher than the top handlebar of the Flymo.

Hoverboards don't work on water...

Toro still makes one for this purpose and is sold in the US

@@Komeuppance what a bojo

Seriously. In my state we can buy silencers. But this mower is too dangerous!

Seems like they would be able to sell them with a bottom attachment with small wheels to comply with regulations. Just charge an extra $40. If the buyer removes the attachment, it's on them.

​ maybe if they silenced it 🤔😆

@@SilverCymbalso how did you acquire yours?😊

@@SilverCymbal It's easier to get silencers in Europe than the US because of the National Firearms Act (NFA, passed in 1934).

Could try swapping in an off-the-shelf motor from harbor freight, maybe.

FEAR! Hey! fear is not ENOUGH! OUR NEWEST GMT ADDITION TO THE DOUBLE STEEL STAKED MICHIGAN STOP SIGNS are SO unsafe that all stop signs at STATE ROAD INTERSECTIONS NOW HAVE 3X THE SURFACE AREA OF THE STOP SIGN BELOW WITH AN ADDITIONAL LARGE REFLECTIVE YELLOW REFLECTIVE! FRONTAGE WITH CONTRASTING BLACK LETTERING STATING..... CROSS TRAFFIC DOES NOT STOP what ever happened to our kindergarten / birth parents' teaching of looking "BOFF " WAYS???

Worked on a golf course for several years up until 2019, we had 6 or 7 of the gas powered FlyMo's that we hung ropes off the handles and used them to mow steep bunker faces

Well, the UK did invent the hovercraft.

Should be reasonably safe as you're operating it at the end of the handle. Mostly bystanders, children, pets and people changing the blade without unplugging are going to be the major issue, I suspect.

I agree so much, like you guys we have a mix of people with big lawns and smaller lawns are becoming much more popular. This would be perfect for smaller lawns and the convenience is undeniable, and I totally agree with your safety insight too!

Fair point.

There's Kinder Eggs too. US also didn't allow thalidomide. It's a bit of a crapshoot (UK/Europe does have better consumer protection overall I'd say). Things like this are often just a way to prevent competitors from entering the market.

@@chaos.cornerthalidomide is dangerous. It is allowed now but women can’t be pregnant taking it Kinder eggs are here but a different configuration. Part of me says just allow them already but we all know how fast someone would sue if a kid chipped a tooth or choked

The airflow is down at the blade hub - but upwards around the outside near the blade tips, for the grass collection system to work. The airflow is very good at picking up any loose leftovers. I've had several of them over the years (in the UK); the only failure for me was the blade shaft bearings giving out relatively quickly, as they were tiny in the ones I owned.

The blade cuts the grass, the fan pushes most clippings towards the right, then, crucially, the hole at the rear right where the clippings are sucked in is also the air intake, so effectively you have a vacuum that sucks the clippings into the grassbox and compacts them at the same time.

Everyone will be free to _off themselves_ ?

How can you be our Ruler if you don't embrace Safetiness?

@@Cautionary_Tale_Harris A ruler who does not care? 😈

In America, any accident is possible and sue-able. Woman's kid burned themselves with a hot chicken nugget, sued McDonald's and won. It's dumb.

@@redone823 it's time someone got a grip and started refusing claims that were due to "no common sense".

I remember the older Flymo the cable was also separate ( plugged in ) to the mower so was easily replaced if ever damaged - the newer ones it's hard wired in to the mower.

@@leepower2717 I mean even if you do, you can just put a male end on it so you can plug it into extension cords like the older ones with basic electrical skills.

I wonder how many tried to be a Flymo successor.

Maneuverable and manoeuvrable are both English terms. Maneuverable is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English ( en-US ) while manoeuvrable is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ). British English always seems to have useless extra letters added.

@@dougadams9419That's rich! An American trying to school me, an Australian, on the English language! 😂

Yeah, I didn't understand the law / code that keeps a foot from getting under the lawn mowers we use here in the States as opposed to any other mower type.

That's an interesting point.

It’s available thru toro

For a cheap and cheerful product it would add a significant cost to it.

very difficult to engineer. It takes a lot of power to lift itself, and a battery with enough capacity would be very heavy, making it need even more power to lift itself.

@@lkj974 although it's already been done by other companies, the solution to that is fairly obvious. Instead of using three massive batteries and assuming an enormous lawn, use one battery at a time and swap them when it runs out. If you really wanted to, you could also just carry a battery pack on a belt, and use a short cord to plug into the mower. A 36v garden tool battery is only about 1.3Kg so they're not heavy. Don't forget that a Flymo often has a grass box on it, which is full of grass and relatively heavy.

Maybe a vacation to Canada? 🥳

Fascinating question I wish someone would answer!!

yes but only by a couple of mill. @@willboudreau1187

@@willboudreau1187jfc calm down

Good question, but no, the height remains constant.

Have the 240v supply at the house so the extension cord is running 240 instead of 120, and if it needs a convertor, run the convertor from 240. It would be great if he could post a few more details about that convertor to see if they offer a 240 to 220 version. If there's no difference in the waveform between US 240 and UK 220, then he could just plug it into a 240v outlet with a plug adaptor. That's what I do with my electric kettle I got from Blighty - boils water really quickly : )

I just Googled and found you can buy them in Ontario. They are available in a range of sizes and prices. I haven't seen a battery operated model in ads. Since these are small machines you'd think they would have such models available.

We used to make hover mowers here in the 50s and 60s...

FFS... Putin's disinformation campaign even finds its way into lawnmower videos.

this is is so sad, Alexa play despacito

I worked at a home center in the late 70's where we tried to sell a few of them. I just remember them coming back. I can still visualize one of them absolutely covered by caked on grass. I'm pretty sure they tried to use it in tall and heavy wet grass. Seems some people didn't bother to read the manuals or didn't care if they did. Maybe it's just the idea of 'my old mower could do it'.

Push mower, what's that? I use a scythe to cut grass.

They still sell mowers like that in the US. Atleast 2 that I’ve seen in stores

@@skoalbanditskoal Do tell...

Got two of them large one 14" blade small one 8" blade only downsides are they will fling rocks at quite a velocity and when used on wet grass it has a tendency to stick to the bed pulling them down to the ground as for injury I can't remember ever hearing of any .

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Almost certainly you could swap in a 120v motor.

@@OmarRodriguez-vl2tq Fair enough. I never knew they drew that much power. I'm sure you could get something to work on 1800W but it would surely require a redesign and may provide poor results.

If you just increase the voltage, the speed will be wrong because we have 60Hz in the US vs 50 in the UK. It will try to run 20% faster here which could effect bearings, hovering, etc. Might need to replace the cord too depending on how they sized it. Because of the frequency difference motors run faster and mechanical load is higher. They do make dual frequency motors derated to run on 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz. With motors, it's not just the voltage that matters.

@@professorg8383 Depends on the motor, synchronous motors that are locked to the mains frequency (clocks, audio equipment Etc.) will change speed, regular universal motors, as I understand, and motors with inverter control will not. Japan has plenty of motorised devices that do not care about mains frequency as for then it's necessary as half of their system is a 50Hz and the other half 60Hz

@@dglcomputers1498 OK, complicated answer. Universal motors actually run as pulsed DC motors when AC is applied. The commutator and brushes act as a rectifier. Most universal motors are essentially brushed, series DC Motors. But they are usually specifically designed to run on AC. The impedance will be higher at 50Hz, so if you run it on 60Hz the currents will be a bit higher. Enough to cause damage? Probably not. Might impact speed slightly but might not. As for inverter control, that isn't a practical solution in most cases and until recently, was pretty significant cost difference. IDK for sure what these mowers use. Years ago popular AC mowers like Sunbeam used induction motors. But I have seen pictures of some really old ones that look like universal motors. And I know some more modern 120 volt AC corded mowers like Black and Decker actually use DC motors and have a full wave rectifier on the incoming supply. I haven't torn one down but I suspect they are either shunt wound or permanent magnet motors. But I also have a small, cheep 12" electric trim mower which is an induction motor Universal motors of any substantial power are more costly to make and have the issues of brushes. For things like vacuums, series universal motors are use because they can hit very high speeds and good regulation is not critical. Universal motors work best with mainly constant loads. A typical vacuum will increase in speed when the air flow is blocked, because the load is actually lower. (moving less air). As for Japan, the designs for consumer appliances are designed to be used on either 50 or 60Hz, Design it for 60 and realize it will just be a bit inefficient at 50Hz. For things that typically have a little synchronous cooling fan they design for the lower air flow being adequate. However, the frequency difference is a huge deal in heavy industry. I've been to Japan quite a bit involved in steel and automotive. Standard AC induction motors are still the biggest source of rotating power. For the companies that had plants on both sides they had the nightmare of having to keep different spares because they were not interchangeable. Fir smal stuff they had 50 or 60hz use equipment with designs accounting for the efficiency differences. But bigger stuff is a whole other issue. In bigger steel plants they often looked to generation of their own power to get around the issues. I think it is changed now, but in some parts of Western Canada, they had similar issues in paper mills because there was still some 50Hz there. Been a long time ago, but I got involved with company that had bought some surplus 50Hz equipment from an old paper mill up there. They thought they made a great deal, but retrofitting for 60Hz use involved detailed investigation to see what needed to be replaced and what they could use as is. Electronics allows you tp do some things that were cost prohibitive not very long ago, But I'm not a big fan of how they achieve "universal voltage inputs". It makes it easier for manufacturers but it's inherently inefficient. It's most small stuff So wasted energy is minimal, but some of the circuits to do this used by Chinese manufacturing, are pretty sketchy designs. Anyway, back to the hover mower, For some items voltage difference is the primary factor, but for other things you need to consider frequency differences. Motors are one of those issues that can potentially cause problems,