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[–] TeckFire@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or a lawnmower. Personally, I change my push mower’s oil every 3,000 miles /s

Edit: I did the math for this, actually. For one acre of land, assuming you had a 4ft wide push mower, it would take about 2.05 miles of walking per acre of land, for complete coverage, with no overlap. I prefer to do a 25% overlap though, so let’s increase that to 3 miles per acre at most.

This means you would need to do 1,000 acres of push mowing before changing the oil in a push mower at this rate. This is about 757 American football fields, 1.56 square miles, or about yay big: https://i.postimg.cc/qRrfdqdn/IMG-1199.jpg

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good to know!

The mowers I’ve had have use that fucked up and horrifying system where you’re supposed to mix the gasoline with motor oil.

[–] TeckFire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So two stroke engines? Yeah, those have a bit of maintenance for sure