Who in the name of John Paul Jones mows at 17mph ??????
Landscapers that do the yard at work got a big commercial gravely they use. Goes pretty fast. Had a load of pipe delivered and we ended up rutting the back field when unloading. Told the landscaper before he went out there to mow, about the ruts.
Well....... he was zipping along and forgot about the rut. By this time he also had a pretty good audience, because we figured he forgot and were waiting to see what happened
Good thing he was wearing his seat belt or he would have done a pretty good superman impression
He was going full tilt when he hit the rut. He did do a pretty good Dukes of Hazard impression, Mower launched, missed about a 10 foot patch before landing. And abruptly stopped. Landscaper at the same time folded in half at the waist like a rag doll, forcing the controls forward again, slamming him back in the seat, mower stopped again folding him like a rag doll. This process repeated 3 to 4 times before he finally stopped completely.
We made him take a break while one of his coworkers finished the mowing.