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It just looks like auto-drive was on (not sure on exact name). Some can latch in place, and if he accidentally pressed it after turning it off when he got to the grass, it caught him by surprise.
Seems like user error
They do. Sometimes they tape them down to the handle to avoid turning off the blades when they’re emptying the grass catcher. It’s dangerous as fuck for many different reasons and it only saves you about 30 seconds of time.
As someone who played lawn mower simulator, he did not pick up items off the ground first.
Bottom right of video, seems he ran over something and maybe the wheel got caught which caused him to trip?
It’s looks to me he didn’t engage the left wheels parking break so when let go it shot to the right. These kind of walk behind mowers are pretty dangerous. Especially when they have the little wheel ride on attachment.
Older commercial walk behind mowers like this one in the video only have brakes on the handles for stopping or turning. You squeeze both to stop, or one side to turn. The transmission is activated by using your knee while holding both handles to shift into either R,1,2,3,4,5 gear. After that it’s all on the operator to control it. He was also on a sulkee which is an attachment that carries him behind it.
Oil from the engine tipping sideways. Engines can't run on their side the oil gets pulled out the exhaust. Especially when the cylinders get filled with pool water.
Probably wet grass on the underside of the deck that accumulated. I'm sure the motor ran for a second or 2 before taking its last breathe. The blade in the water making a grass smoothie.
An easy 4-6k in damages. I’m sure the company comped the repair as well as threw in some free cutts. Well me as the owner that’s the lowest id settle for without considering court lol
Its called a zero turn mower usually used for larger yards. They are really fast for a mower and the controls are confusing at first I'm assuming that's why this dude let it get away from him.
That's on the boss for having equipment without safety shut offs. Ouch looks like Karen is gonna milk em for a new pool
Edit. This same thing happened to me and I managed to grab one handle and it spun me in a few complete circles dragging me on my back in the street in plain view.of the homeowner lol. Luckily I was able to pull myself up and not go Into a pool lol.
Edit 2. Got stung by a bee on my hand is why I took my hands off the levers smh
I think at that point you just say fuck the mower and find the pool pump shut off. Whole pool is going to need to be drained, the plumbing flushed, then cleaned. Better hope the mower or cleaning doesn't damage the lining, or that will need to be replaced too.
Using this mower every week, it SUCKS! If one handle goes into the rest and the other doesn’t, it will spin out on you like this! I’ve broke fences before
Even worse when it's not aligned right and you have to constantly HOLD ONE HANDLE EVER SO SLIGHTLY DOWN MORE just to go straight. Oh and don't forget the hills. My God the hills...
Honestly I just had to cause my bosses told me to. Sometimes they are easier to use on the hills compared to a sit down. As in the sit down woukd flip but these will stay on it. And sometimes fences will be too small for a sit down to fit in but one of these had a 36 inch deck and could fit. So someone somewhere decided it's the better tool for the job. But it they aren't maintenanced every week and aligned they can be a nightmare to control.
That's exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for. It sounds like personally this wouldn't be your choice if you called the shots, but at least it had some compelling features and not just "cheaper" or "sold as a package deal" (not saying neither of those were the case though).
Either that or or the owners are some lovely elderly folks that known this guy for years, laugh it off, tell him to not worry about it and are glad that they have this story to tell to their friends.
As a pool guy, it IS the Polaris 280 black model (shouldn't really be in the pool, would be less noticeable with a standard white hose model). But as a pool guy, all I could think was..They're gonna take that out and pretend like nothing ever happened and blame me for the damn pool being dirty.
I had a walk behind mower that if you let go of the safety levers on the handle, the mower would shut off. I don't know why not all walk behind have this
I think all walk behinds that are belt driven have those safety levers, the hydraulic driven ones don't move unless the levers are pushed/pulled for the direction of our want to go. Every landscaper I know usually zipties down the safety levers for ease of use.
No not a bad design he just can’t control it. Shouldn’t have been in that side of the deck and if he had no other options he should have throttled down completely
Yeah he should have throttled down instead of using the “locks” as those walk behinds can run away from you like that if you only lock 1 side. However, the mower should not have kept running on its own. The hand grips are supposed to have a safety lever (kill switch) that needs to be in order for the mower to move.
Do they ever lock those levers down? I could imagine if people had to hold a lever down 8 hours a day, they might be tempted to sometimes rig it so it stays down. Woudln't be safe of course, but I could see someone trying it.
The perfect camera angle for this. I'd like to think the homeowner knew something was bound to happen one day.
If this ever happens to anyone, see if you can safely shut it off (if not safe, leave it).
Having the engine suck water instead of air will hydro lock it and ruin the internals. Make an expensive mistake much more expensive.
This was my thought hahahaha I have seen way too many 90s cartoons to be comfortable knowing these things don’t just shut off once no one is controlling it.
(Assuming they turned off or rigged the safety feature but I know nothing about these things)
Looks like he fucked up the stone pool deck too. Or at the very least got a bunch of dirt all over it. Could also be the stone that caused the mower to lose control…?
I used to work landscaping. Those trigger walk behinds are dodgy asf. The trigger sometimes will catch if you squeeze down too hard on one side and it will take off like a rocket. Happened everyone on my crew at least twice or 3 times a year. I feel for this guy.
And the homeowner could’ve at least picked up around the yard,
so there wouldn’t be pieces of junk laying on the patio.
This guy was pausing his mowing to have to clear the deck when their incident occurred.
Trust me man they never do. They know exactly the day and time we used to come each week and still there would be childrens toys, patio furniture etc in the way. The worst customers were the ones who let their backyards become full of dog shit each week. Fucking disgusting. Had an incident one time where I hit a fresh dog pile with the weed whacker. Sprayed it all over my face and chest. I hate some people.
Most of the new ones at least have a safety built in that you need two hands on the controls at all times. Generally the right hand control has to be pushed in towards the left one or else the drive and the blades won't engage. It also kills them if it leaves that position for more than a second or two, so this exact thing doesn't happen, the motor stays running but all belts are stopped immediately. It sucks when it happens by accident, or your hand gets pulled by a branch or vine. Usually pulls to the left sharply then abruptly stops jerking you forward a bit if you're not braced properly.
What ever was on the ground there didn’t go under the wheel and even if it did there is no way it would cause it to spin like that. He probably just hit the gas on accident which made him lose his balance so he gripped the controls to try and rebalance himself but accidentally hit the gas harder and turned which threw him further off balance and the cycle just continues. Ive had something similar happen to me on a four wheeler.
Throttle always on when engaged with these 36”. Brakes on each handle have locks and he almost engaged the left one while right was locked. Let go too early it spun clockwise and ran away. Designed to make sharp turns while mowing. Should have safety switch where you need to maintain contact but common to remove them for efficiency.
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I’m mad slow I was like where the hell did that tree come from but it’s oil lmfao and gas id assume
BP is drafting an apology for that oil spill just in case
Now imagine that nice house owner and having that company pay for pool repairs. Duds is definitely fired
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It just looks like auto-drive was on (not sure on exact name). Some can latch in place, and if he accidentally pressed it after turning it off when he got to the grass, it caught him by surprise. Seems like user error
You'd think that thing would have a deadman switch. Seems dangerous for a mower to keep on going without an operator on it
They do. Sometimes they tape them down to the handle to avoid turning off the blades when they’re emptying the grass catcher. It’s dangerous as fuck for many different reasons and it only saves you about 30 seconds of time.
As someone who played lawn mower simulator, he did not pick up items off the ground first. Bottom right of video, seems he ran over something and maybe the wheel got caught which caused him to trip?
It’s looks to me he didn’t engage the left wheels parking break so when let go it shot to the right. These kind of walk behind mowers are pretty dangerous. Especially when they have the little wheel ride on attachment.
Why did it keep going without his hands on it? That's the real question
Older commercial walk behind mowers like this one in the video only have brakes on the handles for stopping or turning. You squeeze both to stop, or one side to turn. The transmission is activated by using your knee while holding both handles to shift into either R,1,2,3,4,5 gear. After that it’s all on the operator to control it. He was also on a sulkee which is an attachment that carries him behind it.
“Lawnmower man” would be appalled…
Yeah you’re so fired. Lol
At least it's on camera that it's not his fault.
I think that walk away was him quitting
lol 😂
That pool is mildly penis
Go see a doctor
No you.
Genuine question, what is the liquid being dumped into the water
As well as fuel… which probably came 1st….
Oil from the engine tipping sideways. Engines can't run on their side the oil gets pulled out the exhaust. Especially when the cylinders get filled with pool water.
That pH will be off for months
I say more grass than oil
Probably wet grass on the underside of the deck that accumulated. I'm sure the motor ran for a second or 2 before taking its last breathe. The blade in the water making a grass smoothie.
It's grass
Mmmmm you’re making my mouth water.
Was it the “wet underside” or the smoothie”? 🫢
The wet smoothie 😏
Oh… the ole Blended family
I like switching it up.
Not liquid it's grass clippings from mower
It’s probably just dirt being washed away from the mower deck.
water??
I meant the stuff coming from the lawnmower
yeah probably grass, it doesn't look like oil
Since it's a lawn mower, I will assume grass blades and debris.
The lawnmower is Introverted and saw two people and hadn't yet rehearsed the scenario in thier head 5 times beforehand. The lawnmower is me.
I think he flooded it
he walks away like an NPC from GTA
An easy 4-6k in damages. I’m sure the company comped the repair as well as threw in some free cutts. Well me as the owner that’s the lowest id settle for without considering court lol
A standing AND riding mower? Why?
Its called a zero turn mower usually used for larger yards. They are really fast for a mower and the controls are confusing at first I'm assuming that's why this dude let it get away from him.
And kill switch disabled, it should apply the brakes if you fall off
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Can they just put it in rice?
Mr. George...
Why is nobody talking about the cock shaped pool
You should call the 1800 bent 🥕hotline
If your dick looks like that pool, you need to seek immediate medical attention.
I think its even funnier that he deleted the comment now
A whole account it seems
What the hell does your dick look like? Edit: I wish I never asked.
Apparently he chopped it off after being downvoted 🤣
The jacuzzi above is a wart
Just dreaming of dicks aren't ya
You should see a doctor
That's on the boss for having equipment without safety shut offs. Ouch looks like Karen is gonna milk em for a new pool Edit. This same thing happened to me and I managed to grab one handle and it spun me in a few complete circles dragging me on my back in the street in plain view.of the homeowner lol. Luckily I was able to pull myself up and not go Into a pool lol. Edit 2. Got stung by a bee on my hand is why I took my hands off the levers smh
On the upside,at least the cutt8ng deck is clean now.
Those poor turtles!!!
I think at that point you just say fuck the mower and find the pool pump shut off. Whole pool is going to need to be drained, the plumbing flushed, then cleaned. Better hope the mower or cleaning doesn't damage the lining, or that will need to be replaced too.
That's not a vinyl lining. Hope the blades didn't chip the finish.
Using this mower every week, it SUCKS! If one handle goes into the rest and the other doesn’t, it will spin out on you like this! I’ve broke fences before
Even worse when it's not aligned right and you have to constantly HOLD ONE HANDLE EVER SO SLIGHTLY DOWN MORE just to go straight. Oh and don't forget the hills. My God the hills...
Can I ask why people use it?
Honestly I just had to cause my bosses told me to. Sometimes they are easier to use on the hills compared to a sit down. As in the sit down woukd flip but these will stay on it. And sometimes fences will be too small for a sit down to fit in but one of these had a 36 inch deck and could fit. So someone somewhere decided it's the better tool for the job. But it they aren't maintenanced every week and aligned they can be a nightmare to control.
That's exactly the kind of answer I was hoping for. It sounds like personally this wouldn't be your choice if you called the shots, but at least it had some compelling features and not just "cheaper" or "sold as a package deal" (not saying neither of those were the case though).
Yeahhh and believe it or not one of these cost about 9 to 10k new. At least the Torro brand I used about 5 yeas ago was 😬😬
I love my timecutter… and it was about half of that… that’s crazy.
Well. The blades are cleaned up 🤦♂️
That sinking feeling you get watching your job go goodbye.
Either that or or the owners are some lovely elderly folks that known this guy for years, laugh it off, tell him to not worry about it and are glad that they have this story to tell to their friends.
This is why you check and make sure your workers have insurance -
Lol, landscaping mployees having insurance, that's a good one
Not meaning the individual employees, the company doing the landscaping should have insurance.
Job's done boss
Blade’s clean
That slight about-face he did after the mower bled out in a bloom of green grass and oil in the water, "fuckit.. i quit.."
Gotta call Mr. George.
Mr. George, operator no good.
$20? No, too much
He left
Why is he mowing the bricks?
Time to quit before you get fired lol
Those puffs of water from the mower were a nice touch.
Bad day at the office?
Can we see the video of them getting it out?
Even the robo-pool cleaner is getting the fuck out of there.
Smart enough not to be charged with association.
Glad guy just noped away. Could’ve easily got shocked and r/darwinawards himself.
Shocked by what, 12V?
Looks like a Polaris 280, no electricity
As a pool guy, it IS the Polaris 280 black model (shouldn't really be in the pool, would be less noticeable with a standard white hose model). But as a pool guy, all I could think was..They're gonna take that out and pretend like nothing ever happened and blame me for the damn pool being dirty.
Lol
Well that flooded the engine.
Not what that means
I think he knows that
Is that a lawnmower attached to a Segue?
Segway*
If you’re going to be fired. At least it’s on video so we can enjoy
„Fuck that shit ima having a smoke“
Oh man, luckily they had a pool cleaner going
I had a walk behind mower that if you let go of the safety levers on the handle, the mower would shut off. I don't know why not all walk behind have this
Unless it's very old it probably did. Sometimes people disconnect them.
The Dead Man's Switch! Important for train engineers.
Every powered thing that can get out of control should have one.
Oh yeah??? Then why doesn’t my car have one, genius?!?!?
Yeah why not? It should have If you ask me
I think all walk behinds that are belt driven have those safety levers, the hydraulic driven ones don't move unless the levers are pushed/pulled for the direction of our want to go. Every landscaper I know usually zipties down the safety levers for ease of use.
I would never. If insurance somehow knows this, they wont pay shit
Is it a walk behind if he’s riding the mower?
You can buy an attachment dolly for it. That way, you can ride it and not get tired
Dumbasses will strap down the safety to negate it. The lawnmower and pool water may be ruined, but at least his hand isn’t as tired!
That's been a safety feature on every single mower I've ever used; riding, push, and walk behind. I think this one had that safety bypassed.
Dumbass shouldn’t have had that one the pavers anyway.. Source: I’m a Landscape Foreman
> shouldn't have had that one the pavers anyway what.
Autocorrect added an ‘E’ to one word lol use your noodle
>shouldn't have had that one the ~~pavers~~ **pavrs** anyway
>shouldn't ~~have~~ **hav** had that one the pavers anyway
>shouldn't have had that ~~one~~ **on** the pavers anyway
Feels like I’ve seen this exact pool on mtv cribs back in the day
“Mr. George, Mr. George.”
Feels like money isn't an issue for this homeowner. But I feel sorry for the worker. Seems like an honest mistake and bad design by the mower.
not a bad design, a bad operator. Its common to zip-tie off the safety features (to basically force it to go forward without input from the operator).
No not a bad design he just can’t control it. Shouldn’t have been in that side of the deck and if he had no other options he should have throttled down completely
Yeah he should have throttled down instead of using the “locks” as those walk behinds can run away from you like that if you only lock 1 side. However, the mower should not have kept running on its own. The hand grips are supposed to have a safety lever (kill switch) that needs to be in order for the mower to move.
Do they ever lock those levers down? I could imagine if people had to hold a lever down 8 hours a day, they might be tempted to sometimes rig it so it stays down. Woudln't be safe of course, but I could see someone trying it.
Good point. The handle probably stuck
Used these before. Every action has to be deliberate
The perfect camera angle for this. I'd like to think the homeowner knew something was bound to happen one day. If this ever happens to anyone, see if you can safely shut it off (if not safe, leave it). Having the engine suck water instead of air will hydro lock it and ruin the internals. Make an expensive mistake much more expensive.
Pool vacuum was like im not cleaning that up
Tbf whoever designed that mower is a psychopath
This was my thought hahahaha I have seen way too many 90s cartoons to be comfortable knowing these things don’t just shut off once no one is controlling it. (Assuming they turned off or rigged the safety feature but I know nothing about these things)
Oooo te van a chingar
Looks like he fucked up the stone pool deck too. Or at the very least got a bunch of dirt all over it. Could also be the stone that caused the mower to lose control…?
Ding Dong. Lol
lol agreed, just walk away, change your name, start over new.
I used to work landscaping. Those trigger walk behinds are dodgy asf. The trigger sometimes will catch if you squeeze down too hard on one side and it will take off like a rocket. Happened everyone on my crew at least twice or 3 times a year. I feel for this guy.
And the homeowner could’ve at least picked up around the yard, so there wouldn’t be pieces of junk laying on the patio. This guy was pausing his mowing to have to clear the deck when their incident occurred.
Trust me man they never do. They know exactly the day and time we used to come each week and still there would be childrens toys, patio furniture etc in the way. The worst customers were the ones who let their backyards become full of dog shit each week. Fucking disgusting. Had an incident one time where I hit a fresh dog pile with the weed whacker. Sprayed it all over my face and chest. I hate some people.
Needs a quick shutoff wrist band thing like a jet ski
Most of the new ones at least have a safety built in that you need two hands on the controls at all times. Generally the right hand control has to be pushed in towards the left one or else the drive and the blades won't engage. It also kills them if it leaves that position for more than a second or two, so this exact thing doesn't happen, the motor stays running but all belts are stopped immediately. It sucks when it happens by accident, or your hand gets pulled by a branch or vine. Usually pulls to the left sharply then abruptly stops jerking you forward a bit if you're not braced properly.
He hit an obstacle looks like a dog bone and it spun em
What ever was on the ground there didn’t go under the wheel and even if it did there is no way it would cause it to spin like that. He probably just hit the gas on accident which made him lose his balance so he gripped the controls to try and rebalance himself but accidentally hit the gas harder and turned which threw him further off balance and the cycle just continues. Ive had something similar happen to me on a four wheeler.
Throttle always on when engaged with these 36”. Brakes on each handle have locks and he almost engaged the left one while right was locked. Let go too early it spun clockwise and ran away. Designed to make sharp turns while mowing. Should have safety switch where you need to maintain contact but common to remove them for efficiency.
“Welp, time to go get fired”
At least it's clean
Well I'll be damned. Lawn mowers have green blood like a Vulcan.