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When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember the municipality using fly mowers to mow hillsides. They tied a rope to the handle and the lowered down the hill and pulled it back up. I do remember Toro commercials on TV for these things and they were red back then.
They're actually still made by Toro for golf courses and slopes, but have been renamed HoverPro instead of Flymo. Can't say I've ever seen them in use, but I also don't live in an area where they're that concerned about perfectly manicured grass lol
Taryl and faryl standing there..9000 years of experience in small engine service..then back to the future with floating lawn mowers ..what an episode..
Still sellinglike hotcakes over here in uk. The local authorities use them for cutting grass on embankments lowered down with a rope attached to the handle and swung about in a big arc saves trying not to slip about .
Don't think Council's are allowed to use them on ropes on banks anymore, too many accidents with people slipping on banks under them and with the rope tied around kill switch they just keep on running chopping yer legs !!!
In 1971, I visited The Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island, Michigan. It was built during the 1920's depreciation as a "work project" to supply jobs. It's truly an amazing place and worthy of a visit. The site where it is built is on a hill with very steep banks along side the access road. The grounds keepers all used Flymo's to trim the manicured lawns. It was the only way they could efficiently mow the grass. In 1971, watching them mow was like a Star Wars event. No wheels and completely operated simply by a turn of the wrist for direction. The grounds keeper's raved about them.
It's 2024 and the Chinese have created a battery powered "Flymo". I saw one advertised on the "inner screen" recently. It is a 120 volt (not a typo) BATTERY powered mower that lists for $2995. The only problem, it comes WITHOUT batteries and the ad said that the batteries were NOT available! Sounds like a Chinese scam to me! Has anyone else seen the ad or has any information about THIS mower?
@@TheOzthewiz I ran into the same thing with Cessna's new EV plane which boasts an entry level price for a 6 place, 200mph Electric Plane at $87,000. Problem is the batteries are not yet available and the extension cord costs $1.3 million dollars.
HI from the UK. I worked for the parks department in Edinburgh Scotland during the 70's and 80's and hover mowers were handy for steep slopes where ordinary mowers couldn't go safely. We used to stand at the top of the slope and operate the machine using ropes tied to the handle!
Greetings from England. Good job Taryl. Good tip about spark plug boot. Flymo's are invariably used on slopes, verges and banks at inclined angles where a normal mower wont work. But..they are hard to use because the hover is fighting the operator all the time. Its tiring trying to hold on. Gardeners like them for graveyards between head stones or between fence posts as you swing it left/right rather than push back/forth as with a wheeled mower. There's an Australian mower called Victa which also has 2-stroke engines and they work better for slopes as they have wheels and are easier to control. The problem with 4-stroke used at and inclined angle is the tilted crank case pools the oil on one side and does not lubricate properly causing engines to seize.
When I first found your videos I thought WHAT A NUTCASE! LOL!! BUT I'M STARTING TO ENJOY WATCHING YOUR HILARIOUS STUFF!! VERRRRRY INFORMATIVE ON A LOT OF THINGS!! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON SMALL ENGINES ALL MY LIFE,, AND HAVE ACTUALLY LEARNED SEVERAL THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ON HERE!! ALMOST HURT MYSELF FROM LAUGHING SO HARD AT SOME OF YOUR SAYINGS, HARD AS A CARP! TEECUMESH,BREAKS AND SCRAPEM ,A LOT OF FUNNY CHIT! THE OUT TAKES ARE HILARIOUS TOO!! DON'T YOU GET TIRED OF THOSE TEETH? AND SQUINTING YOUR EYES ALL THE TIME?? OR ARE YOU LIKE ME HAVE TO SQUINT THEM TO SEE THINGS!! LOL!
I remember back in the late sixties, or very early seventies, I had an uncle that had the corded electric version of the Flymo in Canada. He had a very small yard and he loved it. It made it very easy to get between bushes and tight spaces.
The people that steep banks of grass love the fly mower. We used a rope and lowered it down and back up. Then we learned to stand in the center at the top and just swing the fly mow back and forth made it so simple. When they quit selling them I would buy used ones to keep a working fly mow. We put hole on the deck so the rope pulled direct to the deck.
When I was in Germany they used these to mow cut and cover fuel tanks. They were huge fuel tanks that were buried to look like hills to aircraft that may fly over. They tied a string to them and swung them side to side. I once cut a cut and cover tank with a weed eater. It took 4 of us a whole day to cut half of it.
In my younger days for which now I'm 62 years old we used to run brake fluid down the carburetor of our motors and it would become unbelievably quiet is the sound was trapped in the larger smoke molecules the smoke was unbelievable it was funny it would turn so thick that we couldn't see each other out in the driveway and I remember laughing as we first began in the closed garage and the sound of the motor changing to very quiet was also interesting I don't know that it cleaned carbon but I think it did cuz the motors were very clean afterward and there was never any harm done to the motors
Carb repair instructions are the most valuable part. And of course replacing the missing part. It won't hold gas without the seat. You could see how they would be confused. The camera blurs when objects are moving. Speed or resolution, or something. Faryl was there! And the real uncle Andy! What a great video. It would have been even neater to see the parts up close. You can give slippers a fly mow hawk now and do the banks and hills. Was that a phenolic air cleaner? Carcinogen if it was.
Your knees are next Taryl. Lol. Tx for the videos. Love what you do and your approach/diagnosis of equipment. I’ve learned a lot from you as I just retired at 51 with a disability. Go east on your knees as I had a total knee replacement on the right and need one on the left in the near future. Tx for your funny videos with your boys. Love it !
WOW... Great observation. A buddy just called me to tell me about the Flymo video, and was asking about the teeth. I said they look like the Billy Bob teeth from years ago (sold at a lot of the Nascar events) Been watching Taryl for many years...ok TY and have a good one.
I have a 1980 Flymo with an AV660 Tecumseh engine. I live in the mid west and I absolutely love mine. I use mine for my steep hills and tight areas between trees. I tie a rope on the handle bars and just walk along the hills. Its the very last piece of lawn equipment I would ever get rid of. If people hate them so much, I'll buy every single one.
I can see JR. Flipping that thing over onto his leg. I believe that was what happened to many kids that tried using them. Unless you owned a gold course, It wouldn't cut worth the damn. I remember my first experience with a reel type mower. It wasn't until an old timer taught me how to properly adjust one that I even liked them. I used a power reel mower to cut designs in people's lawns back in the early 80's. It became a" thing" with all the local area doctors offices in town. I was cutting various designs in their lawns. I got paid extra per lawn. I also had to sharpen the reels often.
I found a Toro single stage snowblower in the garbage it was seized up but I got it working took apart the carburetor and it had a wire holding the needle and seat I’ve never seen that ever before had a sticker on it where it was worked on great videos 👍🏻
FYI When I was teen working summers for a lawn service we used a couple of these for years to cut steep hillsides in customer's lawns that you couldn't safely get a rider on. Hell, most of the hills were too steep to walk up and down to even weedeat them unless you had mountain goat skills. We took the handles off of them and had two ropes with knots tied so you could stand on top of the hill with a rope in either hand and swing the mower back and forth and let it down a bit at a time from one knot to the next on each rope. We had a couple military base contracts that had really steep grass-covered hills up the sides of a dozen or so bunkers of some sort and they really worked rather well for that purpose.
in 71 i had 2 vacuum cleaners a hoover hover vacuum and a cast aluminum rocket vacuum, looked like a spaceship, bought both from a church, my kids loved them rode those things like toys, the hoover had a round ball on top of a skirt like the mower,,
I used to use my Dad's 2 stroke flymo to cut our lawns back in the 60's. Worked great, especially on rough ground or banks. Just be careful you wear strong boots so you don't slip and get 'Flymo foot', and have to go looking for your toes.
Got one of those Flymo under a tarpaulin at the bottom of the garden. I stopped using it about six years ago. It would always start first pull whatever the weather despite being exposed to the elements for much of the time. This video has inspired me to get it going again. That's when the weather warms up a bit here in the UK of course! Thanks for the video Taryl..
My grandmother had a six foot 45 degree bank in her front yard and a lawn boy that looked like this. We only used it on the bank. We would get it on the bank and walk sideways along the bank then push it a little farther up the bank and walk the other way. the grass didn't grow as fast on the bank so it worked well. It didn't cut grass that was very tall well at all. Best thing about it was it mow the same sideways as it did front to back.
Yep worked on plenty of those in the mid-late 70's in good old blighty, if i can remember they were supposed to cbe good on steep slopes, have seen council workers cutting steep slopes such as beside a road,ant they wouldn stand at the top of the bank, and have a piece of rope tied to the Flymo start it up lower it down and swing the mower side to side on the rope to cut the grass," so there's your dinner Taryl "
I have that same Green/white Bolens rideon in the background with a V twin Viscount 14HP engine and i removed the side covers to let it breath better. Love your channel - Tim from Aust....
UK add slogan " A lot less bovver with an hovver ! ", real good for fine grass. Also quite a few people lost their toes when pulling the mower and tripping, dragging the mower over their feet...adios toes
Maybe you could put some kind of a skirt around 3/4's of it, to direct the air flow and make a sidewalk blower out of it. Hope to Faryl in more videos.
Hey Taryl...I've seen only of those mowers .. i think they are dangerous..but they did work in some capacity..can't wait to see you use it in the spring..this is the first I've ever seen your brothe ..lol..love the bloopers too..i see y'all getting winter up thar..we're getting 50"s and 60's temperature down here in the south..we're still waiting for winter..I'm waiting for it to be over already...so i can cut grass and drink Harms beer..yee haa !! See y'all on the next one ..Cheers friend's 🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
My cat Lucky wants to text Faryl's daughter. Also, never thought that I would see another Flymo in my life. The "flying knife." One of your better episodes!
I never thought I’d find myself watching a show about lawn mowers but you guys are so fucking funny I couldn’t stop. “Flymo by night, motherfuckers!” Pew-pew!
I still have one of the first petrol flymos sold in the UK. It belonged to my grand parents who passed away. I have kept it as I have fond memories of cutting their grass for them using it.
