XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:18:32 -0700, Paul S Person   
    wrote:   
      
   >Sadly, he lived before the advent -- or, at least, the wide   
   >availability -- of electric mowers.   
      
   In my youth there were only manual mowers, with horzontal blade rotors   
   driven by the wheels.   
      
   When I grew up and needed one power mowers were available, and we   
   bought a petrol one from a big firm. When if died, they said it wasn't   
   worth repairing, it had a Briggs & Stratton engine, and they said that   
   was rubbish, get a Robin. When that died, they said it wasn't worth   
   repairing and the Robin engine was rubbish, get a Briggs & Stratton.   
      
   At that point we left and went to the little guy up the road and   
   bought an electric one. Long cord, but fewer moving parts, so lasts   
   longer. And the little guy repairs it and services it, and only tells   
   us to get a new one when it's really unfixable.   
      
   But with as manual mower, Tolkien's comments are completely   
   understandable.   
      
      
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   Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon   
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