My lawnmower broke a week or so ago and I've been trying to figure out a way of fixing it for free or cheap anyway. My long term solution is to convert my ENTIRE lawn to a cultivation system, but that doesn't solve the short term problem of grass that grows longer each day. Besides, for the moment the lawn provides another source of nitrogen rich compost material. Well the other day I was cleaning up in the yard and came across my broken snow shovel and the lightbulb went off:
I used it this morning to harvest some grass clippings and it worked alright though I think I can improve it by driving a dowel through the hollow hand grip (and by dowel I mean a chunk of waste lumber I whittle down with a drawknife :)
EDIT: I did spend around $3 for the hardware (the old hardware wasn't long enough and I wanted washers), so this repair wasn't free, but it did find a use for something destined for the trash heap.
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