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Author Topic: Lawn Mower Sets Land Speed Record Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-09-2006 05:55 PM                     A slightly souped up riding lawn mower today set a land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats of 80.28 mph. Not a larger than stock engine either. It has just a slightly souped up stock Briggs and Stratton. Those guys at the Briggs factory will sure be revelin about that over coffee tommrrow. Some folks just have way too much time on their hands! Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-09-2006 06:05 PM                     I call that fulfulling a challenge and having tons of fun while doing it. When you think of it, you take of that governor off those Briggs and Stratton motors, and get a well balanced flywheel on the shaft so get the vibrations down to where it's wont destroy the motor-let along doing some crankshaft balancing, one can have a pretty nasty little motor there.. ..prob was an OHV version motor.. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-10-2006 01:01 AM                     What was the quality of the cut at that speed?  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-10-2006 03:03 AM                        ok, so it's the land speed record for riding lawn mowers. not impressed.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-10-2006 04:53 AM                     quote: Mark Gulbrandsen Bonneville Salt Flats There isn't any grass! I bet they lightened it up by taking the cutting blade off.!  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-10-2006 09:40 AM                     I've got a Cub Cadet riding mower with the B&S Vanguard 2 cylinder OHV motor that will do a good 25 mph along the roadway here. Id hate to see how hard it is to steer a riding mower at 80 mph. Its bad enough at 25!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-10-2006 05:35 PM                        It isn't a lawnmower if it doesn't have all of the lawnmower parts on it, blade included. It didn't set the land speed record since I've been faster than that in my car. Also it should be measured while cutting grass.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-10-2006 07:24 PM                     quote: Joe Redifer It didn't set the land speed record since I've been faster than that in my car Joe, They have different catagories for different types of vehicles. You would have to race against the Ferarri's and Masarati's. your "Tiny Tot" car wouldn't fare too well against those cars. quote: Id hate to see how hard it is to steer a riding mower at 80 mph. Its bad enough at 25! There's not much stearing to do. Its a 40 mile long straight away! You have to do a run down and a run back in order to be recorded at all. Brad, The news announcer said he didn't miss a blade of grass... I bet he gets his own lawn done in no time at all! Mark  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-10-2006 07:47 PM                        A "land speed record" is just that. The fastest movement EVER on land. That lawnmower didn't even come close. And your thread title said it set the land speed record, which it did not. The lawnmower speed record maybe... but only if it had a functioning blade and other lawnmower parts, otherwise it didn't even set that record.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-10-2006 11:33 PM                         |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 07-10-2006 11:57 PM                     If a mower is going to have a speed record, it should include MOWING. Otherwise, it's just a go-cart. Now if I could only afford one of those Dixie Chopper mowers that can mow over 8 acres per hour!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-11-2006 12:03 AM                        Mike, explain. Also, can't we get a 5-character minimum for posts, that way people don't waste everyone else's time posting nothing but smilies? Surely UBB is powerful enough. **Waits for flood of members posting nothing but smilies, thinking it is god-damned hilarious**  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-11-2006 12:22 AM                      |  IP: Logged Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 07-11-2006 01:49 AM                        Well, kinda. Looks like you got more than what you were waiting for. It is, after all, at least 5 chars. At least, because it depends on whether or not the smileys are one char each, or if you're counting the individual chars that make up the smiley. Anyhow, on to seriousness. I agree, it isn't a lawnmower unless it mows lawns. Like calling Nascar, stock car racing. Nothing on them cars is stock. I can't go to my neighborhood ford dealor and buy a Nascar racecar.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-11-2006 02:13 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer Mike, explain. Well, in the rules it says: quote: "The FAQ" Smilies are keyboard characters used to convey an emotion, such as a smile or a frown. I had originally typed "Oh, shut up." as a response to the pointless side-argument but I didn't think that was very nice, so I decided to wordlessly express my boredom with it. Holy crap, if you want to pick on a thread title, go ridicule "Splode from cute."  |  IP: Logged

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