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The Hover Mower by Eastman Industries

Found By: Michael Kiely (2079)

Eastman Industries has taken the lawn mower to a new level (literally). The Hover Mower is designed to hover slightly above the ground on a cushion of air, making it more maneuverable, extremely light, easy to propel and able to reach previously inaccessible places like extreme inclines, wet grounds, and tight, difficult to get at places.

Let us know your thoughts in the Comments if you have ever had the opportunity to use one or already own one. It makes perfect sense to me, very cool.

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How would you adjust how high you would like your grass to be. Some like it short and some may like to be green.

It was stupid Idea in the begining. and too if it wasn’t runing you had to drag this thing around in the shop and scratch the bottom all up and in two years the thing would be digging up the roots.

By Anonymous - 4 Years Ago

It’s interesting, but definitely NOT new: I used a neighbor’s
Toro wheelless mower to mow their lawn as a boy in the mid-1960s. Standard blade, no other rotor, just a deck designed to generate flotation from the blade’s propwash. It was a novelty then, but I found no advantage over a more conventiona mower.

I’m 35 and I have never in my life heard about a hovering lawnmower, I’m surprised so many of you have used one back in the 70’s. Maybe this new one is built better than that Flymo? I’m interested in getting one for a few spots in backyard.

Wasn’t there like a Fly-Mo or something like that in the 70s? Anyone?

I hope that John Deere doesn’t sue for trademark infringement (color usage).

Are you trying to say that the color green is copyrighted?

There are requirements for autoshutdown in modern lawn mowers. I’m betting the thing actually uses the cutting blades themseves to provide lift. If this thing auto shuts down it’s going to lose lift before the blades stop spinning. What keeps it from leaving a bald spot on your lawn every time you let go of the handle?

Anonymous said…
“Just some questions from an engineer”

Lord knows you’re not an English major.

May 29, 2005 6:04 PM

I can tell that neither are you :)

Well, as old as the idea is, the idea of the idea being old is getting old, but I remember seeing them in shops in New Zealand when I was a kid, the only thing was is that noone owns them, and my father has used one and he said its just a gimmick for retard yuppies who probably pay someone to do thier lawn anyhow. Check out those taiwanese women doing it with scizzors.

It is actually a really useless piece of equipment. The wind used to prop it up, also pushes the grass down flat.

woot – a hover mower——wow. so cool. so old. Saw one comment with shut up Brits. Lordy – now the Yanks are going to invade Britain to destroy our weapons of mass lawn cutting on cushions of air. Christ you lot are such tossers.

They have used hovering electric lawnmawers in Britain for years. They are fine on good flat lawns, not so great in rough terrains. The blade acts as a fan and loses it’s effectiveness after hitting a couple rocks.

ahem… hover mowing by Flymo™,
since mega ages ago.

this is not an innovation, just a rehash of someone elses.

boo!

By tosh - 4 Years Ago

There are plenty of those. Whats specail about this rehash? And read all the comments, everything has been said at least twice.

Uh, it blows air down—wouldn’t that push the grass out of reach of the blades? Why not add hover capability to something more useful, like your head?

just one other comment—Consumer Reports rated the FlyMo very poorly back in the 70’s because, you guessed it, it flattens the grass and makes an uneven cut. Regular mowers use an updraft to vacuum the clippings into the bag, which also makes the blades of grass stand up to be cut evenly…

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