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When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember the municipality using fly mowers to mow hillsides. They tied a rope to the handle and the lowered down the hill and pulled it back up. I do remember Toro commercials on TV for these things and they were red back then.
They're actually still made by Toro for golf courses and slopes, but have been renamed HoverPro instead of Flymo. Can't say I've ever seen them in use, but I also don't live in an area where they're that concerned about perfectly manicured grass lol
Taryl and faryl standing there..9000 years of experience in small engine service..then back to the future with floating lawn mowers ..what an episode..
When I first found your videos I thought WHAT A NUTCASE! LOL!! BUT I'M STARTING TO ENJOY WATCHING YOUR HILARIOUS STUFF!! VERRRRRY INFORMATIVE ON A LOT OF THINGS!! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON SMALL ENGINES ALL MY LIFE,, AND HAVE ACTUALLY LEARNED SEVERAL THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ON HERE!! ALMOST HURT MYSELF FROM LAUGHING SO HARD AT SOME OF YOUR SAYINGS, HARD AS A CARP! TEECUMESH,BREAKS AND SCRAPEM ,A LOT OF FUNNY CHIT! THE OUT TAKES ARE HILARIOUS TOO!! DON'T YOU GET TIRED OF THOSE TEETH? AND SQUINTING YOUR EYES ALL THE TIME?? OR ARE YOU LIKE ME HAVE TO SQUINT THEM TO SEE THINGS!! LOL!
Still sellinglike hotcakes over here in uk. The local authorities use them for cutting grass on embankments lowered down with a rope attached to the handle and swung about in a big arc saves trying not to slip about .
Don't think Council's are allowed to use them on ropes on banks anymore, too many accidents with people slipping on banks under them and with the rope tied around kill switch they just keep on running chopping yer legs !!!
Greetings from England. Good job Taryl. Good tip about spark plug boot. Flymo's are invariably used on slopes, verges and banks at inclined angles where a normal mower wont work. But..they are hard to use because the hover is fighting the operator all the time. Its tiring trying to hold on. Gardeners like them for graveyards between head stones or between fence posts as you swing it left/right rather than push back/forth as with a wheeled mower. There's an Australian mower called Victa which also has 2-stroke engines and they work better for slopes as they have wheels and are easier to control. The problem with 4-stroke used at and inclined angle is the tilted crank case pools the oil on one side and does not lubricate properly causing engines to seize.
In 1971, I visited The Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island, Michigan. It was built during the 1920's depreciation as a "work project" to supply jobs. It's truly an amazing place and worthy of a visit. The site where it is built is on a hill with very steep banks along side the access road. The grounds keepers all used Flymo's to trim the manicured lawns. It was the only way they could efficiently mow the grass. In 1971, watching them mow was like a Star Wars event. No wheels and completely operated simply by a turn of the wrist for direction. The grounds keeper's raved about them.
It's 2024 and the Chinese have created a battery powered "Flymo". I saw one advertised on the "inner screen" recently. It is a 120 volt (not a typo) BATTERY powered mower that lists for $2995. The only problem, it comes WITHOUT batteries and the ad said that the batteries were NOT available! Sounds like a Chinese scam to me! Has anyone else seen the ad or has any information about THIS mower?
@@TheOzthewiz I ran into the same thing with Cessna's new EV plane which boasts an entry level price for a 6 place, 200mph Electric Plane at $87,000. Problem is the batteries are not yet available and the extension cord costs $1.3 million dollars.
HI from the UK. I worked for the parks department in Edinburgh Scotland during the 70's and 80's and hover mowers were handy for steep slopes where ordinary mowers couldn't go safely. We used to stand at the top of the slope and operate the machine using ropes tied to the handle!
Your knees are next Taryl. Lol. Tx for the videos. Love what you do and your approach/diagnosis of equipment. I’ve learned a lot from you as I just retired at 51 with a disability. Go east on your knees as I had a total knee replacement on the right and need one on the left in the near future. Tx for your funny videos with your boys. Love it !
I remember back in the late sixties, or very early seventies, I had an uncle that had the corded electric version of the Flymo in Canada. He had a very small yard and he loved it. It made it very easy to get between bushes and tight spaces.
WOW... Great observation. A buddy just called me to tell me about the Flymo video, and was asking about the teeth. I said they look like the Billy Bob teeth from years ago (sold at a lot of the Nascar events) Been watching Taryl for many years...ok TY and have a good one.
Carb repair instructions are the most valuable part. And of course replacing the missing part. It won't hold gas without the seat. You could see how they would be confused. The camera blurs when objects are moving. Speed or resolution, or something. Faryl was there! And the real uncle Andy! What a great video. It would have been even neater to see the parts up close. You can give slippers a fly mow hawk now and do the banks and hills. Was that a phenolic air cleaner? Carcinogen if it was.
Hey Taryl...I've seen only of those mowers .. i think they are dangerous..but they did work in some capacity..can't wait to see you use it in the spring..this is the first I've ever seen your brothe ..lol..love the bloopers too..i see y'all getting winter up thar..we're getting 50"s and 60's temperature down here in the south..we're still waiting for winter..I'm waiting for it to be over already...so i can cut grass and drink Harms beer..yee haa !! See y'all on the next one ..Cheers friend's 🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I have a 1980 Flymo with an AV660 Tecumseh engine. I live in the mid west and I absolutely love mine. I use mine for my steep hills and tight areas between trees. I tie a rope on the handle bars and just walk along the hills. Its the very last piece of lawn equipment I would ever get rid of. If people hate them so much, I'll buy every single one.
I can see JR. Flipping that thing over onto his leg. I believe that was what happened to many kids that tried using them. Unless you owned a gold course, It wouldn't cut worth the damn. I remember my first experience with a reel type mower. It wasn't until an old timer taught me how to properly adjust one that I even liked them. I used a power reel mower to cut designs in people's lawns back in the early 80's. It became a" thing" with all the local area doctors offices in town. I was cutting various designs in their lawns. I got paid extra per lawn. I also had to sharpen the reels often.
I have that same Green/white Bolens rideon in the background with a V twin Viscount 14HP engine and i removed the side covers to let it breath better. Love your channel - Tim from Aust....
The people that steep banks of grass love the fly mower. We used a rope and lowered it down and back up. Then we learned to stand in the center at the top and just swing the fly mow back and forth made it so simple. When they quit selling them I would buy used ones to keep a working fly mow. We put hole on the deck so the rope pulled direct to the deck.
When I was in Germany they used these to mow cut and cover fuel tanks. They were huge fuel tanks that were buried to look like hills to aircraft that may fly over. They tied a string to them and swung them side to side. I once cut a cut and cover tank with a weed eater. It took 4 of us a whole day to cut half of it.
FYI When I was teen working summers for a lawn service we used a couple of these for years to cut steep hillsides in customer's lawns that you couldn't safely get a rider on. Hell, most of the hills were too steep to walk up and down to even weedeat them unless you had mountain goat skills. We took the handles off of them and had two ropes with knots tied so you could stand on top of the hill with a rope in either hand and swing the mower back and forth and let it down a bit at a time from one knot to the next on each rope. We had a couple military base contracts that had really steep grass-covered hills up the sides of a dozen or so bunkers of some sort and they really worked rather well for that purpose.
I used to use my Dad's 2 stroke flymo to cut our lawns back in the 60's. Worked great, especially on rough ground or banks. Just be careful you wear strong boots so you don't slip and get 'Flymo foot', and have to go looking for your toes.
I found a Toro single stage snowblower in the garbage it was seized up but I got it working took apart the carburetor and it had a wire holding the needle and seat I’ve never seen that ever before had a sticker on it where it was worked on great videos 👍🏻
Got one of those Flymo under a tarpaulin at the bottom of the garden. I stopped using it about six years ago. It would always start first pull whatever the weather despite being exposed to the elements for much of the time. This video has inspired me to get it going again. That's when the weather warms up a bit here in the UK of course! Thanks for the video Taryl..
I find it funny that my old Boy Scout Master whose family owns a True Value store for decades collect these. I wonder if he got obsessed with them bc he use to sell and service them as a kid. Out here in Long Island, NY golf courses still use specially on hilly terrain. Faryl has a really nice size shop! 🤙🏻🦅🇺🇸🔧 Glad this mower bought back some memories. You knew exactly what to do and spot!
In my younger days for which now I'm 62 years old we used to run brake fluid down the carburetor of our motors and it would become unbelievably quiet is the sound was trapped in the larger smoke molecules the smoke was unbelievable it was funny it would turn so thick that we couldn't see each other out in the driveway and I remember laughing as we first began in the closed garage and the sound of the motor changing to very quiet was also interesting I don't know that it cleaned carbon but I think it did cuz the motors were very clean afterward and there was never any harm done to the motors
Your brother is spot on. We sold those in the early 80s. The company told us we were holding it with a overhand grip. Just lightly hold it with a underhand grip. Hehe. They were very good to win money with bets before they were known about. Oh but it hangs so flat on your garage wall.
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Faryl’s shop has that sleeper security system... the outside architecture tells the thief, don’t even bother. Clearly Faryl is a genius
After years of watching this and hearing about brother Faryl, is nice to finally meet him!
This is not Faryl's first appearance.
When I was a kid in the 70’s I remember the municipality using fly mowers to mow hillsides. They tied a rope to the handle and the lowered down the hill and pulled it back up. I do remember Toro commercials on TV for these things and they were red back then.
That's the only reason I would buy one.
I still do that on the sloped areas at my work place! Tie a climbing rope around the dead man's handle and send it downhill!
Ahh now I know why my grandfather had one back in the day. A good part of the lot was a steep slope.
They're actually still made by Toro for golf courses and slopes, but have been renamed HoverPro instead of Flymo. Can't say I've ever seen them in use, but I also don't live in an area where they're that concerned about perfectly manicured grass lol
Yup
Faryl said he had a bunch of those. You should get them all, put them together and make a flying car.
Or a cube of scrap iron. Tooooo dangerous
Put a pitched blade under it and a low profile swivel caster on each corner. Or keep it original and use it as a leaf/snow blower.
Taryl and faryl standing there..9000 years of experience in small engine service..then back to the future with floating lawn mowers ..what an episode..
A double Encore! Love the Rush tribute. Thanks for the Flymo video, Taryl!
Just when you think you've seen it all, Taryl pulls out another classic! FANTASTIC SHOW
Its great to see Faryl in a video I have been asking for years! without Faryl
there would be no Taryl
That kid that Faryl scratched, I remember the boy's name as Little Teddy Nugent. I don't think he ever forgot about that.
Nugent
That was great! Faryl is a natural too. I like the hover-blower-skimmer foot-remover thing, everything except mower😆
congratulations on being the first person to mow their yard in town this year.
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Taryl, Jerkenstein and Elkskins take a trip to the United Kingdom. Would love to see that!
Fly-Mow by night! Thank you Taryl for putting RUSH in my head all day. 👍🙂
When I first found your videos I thought WHAT A NUTCASE! LOL!! BUT I'M STARTING TO ENJOY WATCHING YOUR HILARIOUS STUFF!! VERRRRRY INFORMATIVE ON A LOT OF THINGS!! I'VE BEEN WORKING ON SMALL ENGINES ALL MY LIFE,, AND HAVE ACTUALLY LEARNED SEVERAL THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ON HERE!! ALMOST HURT MYSELF FROM LAUGHING SO HARD AT SOME OF YOUR SAYINGS, HARD AS A CARP! TEECUMESH,BREAKS AND SCRAPEM ,A LOT OF FUNNY CHIT! THE OUT TAKES ARE HILARIOUS TOO!! DON'T YOU GET TIRED OF THOSE TEETH? AND SQUINTING YOUR EYES ALL THE TIME?? OR ARE YOU LIKE ME HAVE TO SQUINT THEM TO SEE THINGS!! LOL!
Love the outtakes! Keep it up and got my Taryl apparel this week too!
Still sellinglike hotcakes over here in uk. The local authorities use them for cutting grass on embankments lowered down with a rope attached to the handle and swung about in a big arc saves trying not to slip about .
And Toro sell the rebranded Allen HoverPro mowers now. I think they will get less popular due to battery mowers that can be used on steep slopes.
Don't think Council's are allowed to use them on ropes on banks anymore, too many accidents with people slipping on banks under them and with the rope tied around kill switch they just keep on running chopping yer legs !!!
@@derek876544 no they have to use remote control bank mowers now.
Wtf
@@bentullett6068 ye repaired a few
Was great to see the legendary... mysterious faryl!!! Great vid!
Greetings from England. Good job Taryl. Good tip about spark plug boot. Flymo's are invariably used on slopes, verges and banks at inclined angles where a normal mower wont work. But..they are hard to use because the hover is fighting the operator all the time. Its tiring trying to hold on. Gardeners like them for graveyards between head stones or between fence posts as you swing it left/right rather than push back/forth as with a wheeled mower. There's an Australian mower called Victa which also has 2-stroke engines and they work better for slopes as they have wheels and are easier to control. The problem with 4-stroke used at and inclined angle is the tilted crank case pools the oil on one side and does not lubricate properly causing engines to seize.
yes i love these old flymo/toros
and yes faryl
In 1971, I visited The Grand Hotel on Mackinaw Island, Michigan. It was built during the 1920's depreciation as a "work project" to supply jobs. It's truly an amazing place and worthy of a visit. The site where it is built is on a hill with very steep banks along side the access road. The grounds keepers all used Flymo's to trim the manicured lawns. It was the only way they could efficiently mow the grass. In 1971, watching them mow was like a Star Wars event. No wheels and completely operated simply by a turn of the wrist for direction. The grounds keeper's raved about them.
It's 2024 and the Chinese have created a battery powered "Flymo". I saw one advertised on the "inner screen" recently. It is a 120 volt (not a typo) BATTERY powered mower that lists for $2995. The only problem, it comes WITHOUT batteries and the ad said that the batteries were NOT available! Sounds like a Chinese scam to me! Has anyone else seen the ad or has any information about THIS mower?
@@TheOzthewiz I ran into the same thing with Cessna's new EV plane which boasts an entry level price for a 6 place, 200mph Electric Plane at $87,000. Problem is the batteries are not yet available and the extension cord costs $1.3 million dollars.
My neighbor had one for cutting his very swampy/soft lakefront property. Worked great!
Laughter is the best medicine. Always enjoy TFA videos!
HI from the UK.
I worked for the parks department in Edinburgh Scotland during the 70's and 80's and hover mowers were handy for steep slopes where ordinary mowers couldn't go safely.
We used to stand at the top of the slope and operate the machine using ropes tied to the handle!
I've only seen this thing briefly a few times in old videos and thought "What the hell was that? No wheels?" Thanks Taryl for another interesting vid.
Taryl thanks for your time on repairing another antique!
i amm so glad to see momma cat lying beside you tryl that right there shows me your a good man
Great video Taryl. I was great to finally see your brother Faryl. Would like to see Skippy again.
That fly-mo was interesting to see. 2 uncle Andy's is the world really ready for that?
It's a mower that doubles as a grill lid.
Love the bloopers! MORE please!
Yes bloopers finally thanks man 👍👍 more please 🤣
You make my Sunday guys thank you.
That Faryl kitty litter scene always has me howling with laughter 😂😂😂
Meeting Faryl and seeing "space age" technology? What an episode! Keep up the great work!
Cool mower. Best 35 Minutes I've had all week.
Love the Rush tribute Taryl Lee. Flymo Night away from here...Classic!
I've heard that Rush song a hundred times or more.....Never knew the lyrics until watching this video! Thanks Taryl!
You guys sure put a lot of time and effort into making your vids. Two thumbs up.
Your knees are next Taryl. Lol. Tx for the videos. Love what you do and your approach/diagnosis of equipment. I’ve learned a lot from you as I just retired at 51 with a disability. Go east on your knees as I had a total knee replacement on the right and need one on the left in the near future. Tx for your funny videos with your boys. Love it !
I remember back in the late sixties, or very early seventies, I had an uncle that had the corded electric version of the Flymo in Canada. He had a very small yard and he loved it. It made it very easy to get between bushes and tight spaces.
Hey Maw. Look out the window. Taryl has lost it. He's mowing the snow with a lawnmower with no wheels.
@Anders Sutton it don’t work. It’s a scam
Cant wait for the ride-on version!
great video really informative
34:53 "And here comes a car"
*instantly takes teeth out* 🤣
WOW... Great observation. A buddy just called me to tell me about the Flymo video, and was asking about the teeth. I said they look like the Billy Bob teeth from years ago (sold at a lot of the Nascar events) Been watching Taryl for many years...ok TY and have a good one.
Carb repair instructions are the most valuable part.
And of course replacing the missing part. It won't hold gas without the seat.
You could see how they would be confused.
The camera blurs when objects are moving.
Speed or resolution, or something.
Faryl was there! And the real uncle Andy! What a great video.
It would have been even neater to see the parts up close.
You can give slippers a fly mow hawk now and do the banks and hills.
Was that a phenolic air cleaner? Carcinogen if it was.
Flymo By Night!!! Lol!! You're an original Taryl!
Hey Taryl...I've seen only of those mowers .. i think they are dangerous..but they did work in some capacity..can't wait to see you use it in the spring..this is the first I've ever seen your brothe ..lol..love the bloopers too..i see y'all getting winter up thar..we're getting 50"s and 60's temperature down here in the south..we're still waiting for winter..I'm waiting for it to be over already...so i can cut grass and drink Harms beer..yee haa !! See y'all on the next one ..Cheers friend's 🍻🍻🍻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for the LOCKDOWN RELIEF loving it here in Ireland 👋🤣💚☘☘☘
My dad had one of those from Sears!! I loved it!! I wish I had one now for soggy soil!!!
I got one of those vintage flymo, never had gas in it, still in the box l, was in storage. 2 stroke.
Love when you work on the old dangerous stuff !
I have a 1980 Flymo with an AV660 Tecumseh engine. I live in the mid west and I absolutely love mine. I use mine for my steep hills and tight areas between trees. I tie a rope on the handle bars and just walk along the hills. Its the very last piece of lawn equipment I would ever get rid of. If people hate them so much, I'll buy every single one.
Hey taryl good morning this is by far one of the best videos you've ever done wish I had one of those fly mowsinzkiii zzz
I can see JR. Flipping that thing over onto his leg. I believe that was what happened to many kids that tried using them. Unless you owned a gold course, It wouldn't cut worth the damn. I remember my first experience with a reel type mower. It wasn't until an old timer taught me how to properly adjust one that I even liked them. I used a power reel mower to cut designs in people's lawns back in the early 80's. It became a" thing" with all the local area doctors offices in town. I was cutting various designs in their lawns. I got paid extra per lawn. I also had to sharpen the reels often.
Great video! That Old Engine Oil beer is a good one too!
Definitely approve of the Faryl appearance !
Awesome video
Thanks guys,
Thats the laugh I needed today
Central California Watching
Love it. Works on frozen grass!!!
hahahaaaaa kitty treats and hams lol
Fly-mow worked better than I thought it would 👍
I really like the bloopers
Hope to see more videos with your brother on them.😁👍👍
I have that same Green/white Bolens rideon in the background with a V twin Viscount 14HP engine and i removed the side covers to let it breath better.
Love your channel - Tim from Aust....
Omg yes I know that song. I never caught on to what it was really ment 🤣. Great video bud.
The people that steep banks of grass love the fly mower. We used a rope and lowered it down and back up. Then we learned to stand in the center at the top and just swing the fly mow back and forth made it so simple. When they quit selling them I would buy used ones to keep a working fly mow. We put hole on the deck so the rope pulled direct to the deck.
Great video guys I’m betting you have shop envy over your brother’s shop that’s nice
When I was in Germany they used these to mow cut and cover fuel tanks. They were huge fuel tanks that were buried to look like hills to aircraft that may fly over. They tied a string to them and swung them side to side. I once cut a cut and cover tank with a weed eater. It took 4 of us a whole day to cut half of it.
Another good one! 👍👍👍
I love the outtakes
Great video
They work great for mowing ditches. My step dad had these Flymos on his cranberry farm.
FYI When I was teen working summers for a lawn service we used a couple of these for years to cut steep hillsides in customer's lawns that you couldn't safely get a rider on. Hell, most of the hills were too steep to walk up and down to even weedeat them unless you had mountain goat skills. We took the handles off of them and had two ropes with knots tied so you could stand on top of the hill with a rope in either hand and swing the mower back and forth and let it down a bit at a time from one knot to the next on each rope. We had a couple military base contracts that had really steep grass-covered hills up the sides of a dozen or so bunkers of some sort and they really worked rather well for that purpose.
Taryl, that song........keep your day job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...........I only saw one Flymow in my life, I left it where I found it!!!!!
Hey!....at least it clears the snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These guy's are the greatest on UA-cam, there acting beats anything on TV. Very entertaining.
Lol I want to party with you cats man y'all are some strange cats man y'all be Trippin!
Love your British accent Taryl . Greetings from the U.K
I used to use my Dad's 2 stroke flymo to cut our lawns back in the 60's. Worked great, especially on rough ground or banks. Just be careful you wear strong boots so you don't slip and get 'Flymo foot', and have to go looking for your toes.
Boy, that thing cuts like a dream.... Hey, a nightmare is a dream, right?
Canada Russ here, just when ya think u know all there is to know about mowers.. FLYMO.. heh.. super cool, i like it..
That Rush bit had me going 👍
I found a Toro single stage snowblower in the garbage it was seized up but I got it working took apart the carburetor and it had a wire holding the needle and seat I’ve never seen that ever before had a sticker on it where it was worked on great videos 👍🏻
Oh, I love you guys! I laughed out loud and I may have even peed a little. 🤣👍
Got one of those Flymo under a tarpaulin at the bottom of the garden. I stopped using it about six years ago. It would always start first pull whatever the weather despite being exposed to the elements for much of the time. This video has inspired me to get it going again. That's when the weather warms up a bit here in the UK of course! Thanks for the video Taryl..
Great stuff you guys no kidding
Love the songs.
Amazingz! 🤏👌
I find it funny that my old Boy Scout Master whose family owns a True Value store for decades collect these. I wonder if he got obsessed with them bc he use to sell and service them as a kid.
Out here in Long Island, NY golf courses still use specially on hilly terrain.
Faryl has a really nice size shop! 🤙🏻🦅🇺🇸🔧
Glad this mower bought back some memories. You knew exactly what to do and spot!
Cool, I've never seen one of those... I was thinking that would be great for my ditch and steep bank! You guys had me laughing today... again!
Great video one of these days I'm going to get my Flymow going.
I have been watching this channel since 2015 when I broke my leg. keep it coming guys you are in hollywood!!!! lol
I want one....How cool!
In my younger days for which now I'm 62 years old we used to run brake fluid down the carburetor of our motors and it would become unbelievably quiet is the sound was trapped in the larger smoke molecules the smoke was unbelievable it was funny it would turn so thick that we couldn't see each other out in the driveway and I remember laughing as we first began in the closed garage and the sound of the motor changing to very quiet was also interesting I don't know that it cleaned carbon but I think it did cuz the motors were very clean afterward and there was never any harm done to the motors
OMG Rush song butcher. That was a great show and repair!
Bravo old chap 🇬🇧✊🏻
I remember them . I worked at a hardware / lawnmower shop when I was in high school & we sold them for one year . They did not cut tall grass at all .
the day the American Pickers come to taryl’s shop is the day i can die happy 😂😂
Isn’t that the mower you worked on when you worked for your brother. Lol. Great videos 👍
Your brother is spot on. We sold those in the early 80s. The company told us we were holding it with a overhand grip. Just lightly hold it with a underhand grip. Hehe.
They were very good to win money with bets before they were known about. Oh but it hangs so flat on your garage wall.