Mowing the lawn seems to be the bane of many "Amurican" males. Many years ago I replaced a 5hp Briggs & Stratton engine on my lawn mower with a shiny new 6.5hp Honda. Figuring that the Honda had a little more umph; I installed a "little larger" drive sprocket. This would make the mower travel a little faster and shorten the time required to mow the lawn. At the time I was working long hours and my wife decided that she would help out by mowing the lawn for me. I came home to lawn that had four inch wide trenches anytime she engaged the clutch. The mowing pattern was almost perfect figure eights. Our prized Black Locust shade tree was now void of bark in the lower eight inches of the trunk. I found the misses in the den nursing a glass of red wine and a broken toe. The end result was the addition of an extra attachment to the mower. It's called a gardener.
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