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Flymo and Other Hover Mowers |
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Post# 945933   6/30/2017 at 00:55 (2,491 days old) by ClassicTVMan81X (Milwaukie, Oregon, USA)   |   | |
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Does anyone remember the Flymo and other brands of hover mowers, without wheels?
G19, with a Tecumseh 3.25 HP 2-cycle engine: GT4, with a Briggs & Stratton 3.5 HP 4-cycle engine: Very rare Flymo, with a Kawasaki 1.25 HP 2-cycle engine: GLE15 electric: Allen, with a Suzuki M120X 2-cycle engine: Most recently, according to their official website Flymo itself no longer makes any gasoline-powered hover mowers, but only electric hover mowers and both gas and electric rotary walk-behinds with wheels. I'll bet safety may have played a part in the discontinuation of most gasoline-powered hover mowers. Toro (the original US distributor of Flymo in 1965) as of 2012 had brought out a gas-powered hover mower: the Hover Pro. ~Ben |
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Post# 945967 , Reply# 2   6/30/2017 at 07:53 (2,491 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 945995 , Reply# 3   6/30/2017 at 10:14 (2,491 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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or was it affiliated with Electrolux AB or Husquvarna? |
Post# 946003 , Reply# 4   6/30/2017 at 10:59 (2,491 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.)   |   | |
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It is. Flymo is attached to Husqvarna, which is part of Electrolux of Sweden. |
Post# 946104 , Reply# 5   6/30/2017 at 19:25 (2,491 days old) by ClassicTVMan81X (Milwaukie, Oregon, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 946145 , Reply# 6   6/30/2017 at 23:21 (2,490 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 946157 , Reply# 7   7/1/2017 at 00:46 (2,490 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 946175 , Reply# 11   7/1/2017 at 06:14 (2,490 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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And in the videos showing the use of the Flymo-note that it is swung side-to-side like a string mop-or a sythe.It can also be pushed forward or back as a wheeled mower. |
Post# 946206 , Reply# 14   7/1/2017 at 11:41 (2,490 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 946273 , Reply# 15   7/1/2017 at 22:33 (2,489 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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Yes Louis, that is the exact machine. Chris. |
Post# 946298 , Reply# 16   7/2/2017 at 01:05 (2,489 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit)   |   | |
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Post# 946345 , Reply# 17   7/2/2017 at 10:43 (2,489 days old) by ClassicTVMan81X (Milwaukie, Oregon, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 946553 , Reply# 18   7/3/2017 at 14:29 (2,488 days old) by AquaCycle (West Yorkshire, UK)   |   | |
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Good lord, we used to have one of those Qualcast Concords when I was a kid! It made a very distinctive noise.
Flymo's never lasted long for us, they always seemd to pack up within a few years. We had far better luck with Qualcast, although one of our neighbours had a Flymo for years that I had the matching toy version of - it has a big plastic dome thing on top of it that spun round when the motor was on. |