Only one EV charger at home?!

Why would you need it unseated if you're mowing an acre?

What on earth makes you think keeping the stupid alive is a good thing? Have you factored in the cost for all this softy? Extra money to make the softy features, time taken by everyone to follow the namby pamby rules? Think how far the world could have come with everyone having twice the money and twice the time.

It's health and softy. Because only pansies need or want it.

I don't even know what OSHA is. In manuals I skip to the part where it actually gives you information on how to use/assemble it.

I avoided all health and softy training courses at work and just got on with things. I was constantly praised for completing things others fannied about with filling in forms for days.

Gotta love the early American seatbelts which strangled folk.

Why on earth would you now want it to mow in reverse? It would make mowing take so much longer.

And why do you say "backing up"? That's when you make a copy of files on your computer. There's no up involved, you're moving the mower horizontally.

I take it you meant "rather it WASN'T running". If you're nowhere near it, who cares?

I fell off a slide like that when I was a kid and messed my shoulder up. It wasn't removed until much later when the playground was renovated. I had a little help from a classmate who wanted to get one last run in before recess ended and thought I was moving too slow. That was chalked up as 's*it happens'.

I'll admit I avoided slides after that incident.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration -- a make work project for government drones.

The engine of the riding mower will stop if you go in reverse. Many times I want to go in reverse for a few feet to get around or up close to an item in the yard such as a tree or bush. In the US we back up our riding mowers and cars. I think you know what we are saying just like the 'jumpers' a post or two up from here. Not an artical of clothing but a short wire that bypasses the switch or goes from one electrical terminal to another.

I see no point in stopping the blades (assuming that's what you meant, I doubt the engine stops) when you reverse. Running the blades when going over already cut grass just does nothing.

And a yard is made of concrete, you mean lawn.

But you have the word reverse, so why not use it?

I only call those jumpers when they plug in, like on a computer motherboard. IF you've soldered it across or added a wire, it's not really a jumper. Jumpers can be removed at will.

Electric shocks are overrated. They very rarely kill.

Anyway, I assume you have the girly namby pamby circuit breakers? You can't get shocks with those.

Now if we used DC, we wouldn't get shocks, our capacitance makes AC cause a lot more current in us.

It seems "s*it happens" isn't taught any more :-(

Lucky you, we had both up to 14. Everything was obligatory up to 14. Including religious indoctrination.

My US made 'riding mower' has a button to press (if you want to 'back up')that stops the motor from cutting

My US made 'riding mower' has a button to press (if you want to 'back up')that stops the motor from cutting

my Italian made mower does that the other way round. going into reverse stops the cutters, but there's a button to override that and keep the blades rotating

My U.S.-made mower worked like yours. I suspect TNP is confused. Perhaps he'll provide the make and model of his mower so we can investigate.

Like many other people, my husband bypassed the switch and the mower now mows in reverse.

F*ck you. I've had this mower 20 years. I know how it works

John Deere L100

If you go back with cutters engaged, it cuts the engine unless you touch the button

So you don't do the D-I-Y and you aren't in the UK

I think if you are a Democrat and Care About The Planet, killing your own kids is a religious duty to Save The Planet