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Thursday, July 04, 2024

Drowned while mowing

A man in Missouri died after the lawnmower he was driving flipped and pinned him underneath the water of a private pond.
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I've got a slope along the road in front of my place that's about 65 yards long, 6 feet high, and at about a 60 degree angle that I have to mow with a self propelled push mower because it's way too steep for a zero-turn mower. I used to mow right to the edge of it until one day the grass was still a little damp and my zero-turn started to slide, just like the young man in the story. Luckily I was able to recover before I flipped it. Now I make a couple extra passes up top with the push mower just to be on the safe side.