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We used to have a petrol mower. My dad converted it into an electric mower by removing the petrol engine and bolting on the mother of all electric motors. This Frankenmower weighed about a ton and a half. You started it by holding down a button he'd fixed to the handle (at which point it would start buzzing) and leaning down to push at the mower belt until the blades started spinning.
Then... oh boy... then he decides by tilting this monstrosity onto its back and building a platform onto it, he can detach the mower belt from the blades and attach it to a circular saw, thus creating his own infernally dangerous sawmill.
It worked a treat actually. However one thing he never bothered with was health and safety. One day he reached underneath it to check something, and hit the circular saw with this fingers. He didn't fetch his fingers off, but three of them were cut to the bone. First and only time I ever saw my father pass out. My mum, being a nurse, was unfazed, and got a neighbour to drive them to hospital, where they stitched him up.
We laugh about it now, of course.
In a later episode I'll tell you about myself, a sharp knife, and two plaice welded together in the freezer...
Then... oh boy... then he decides by tilting this monstrosity onto its back and building a platform onto it, he can detach the mower belt from the blades and attach it to a circular saw, thus creating his own infernally dangerous sawmill.
It worked a treat actually. However one thing he never bothered with was health and safety. One day he reached underneath it to check something, and hit the circular saw with this fingers. He didn't fetch his fingers off, but three of them were cut to the bone. First and only time I ever saw my father pass out. My mum, being a nurse, was unfazed, and got a neighbour to drive them to hospital, where they stitched him up.
We laugh about it now, of course.
In a later episode I'll tell you about myself, a sharp knife, and two plaice welded together in the freezer...
