Elkins45
Site Donor 2026
I know it actually threw a rod but it looks like he ran over a land mine! The guy is lucky he wasn’t hurt.
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Lawn mower explosively disassembles
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His reaction was very collected.
I would've freaked, shrieked and run down the street.
I would've freaked, shrieked and run down the street.
How does this even happen ?
AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
Watching it in slo-mo it looks like the blade came off.
SpaceX calls that a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
SpaceX calls that a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
Blowed up real good!
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It was at this moment that Daryl knew he needed new shorts.
It was probably a Briggs & Scrap Em engine. All the ones I owned developed a rod knock. I did have a 1972 - 3hp Briggs that knocked for 20 years, and never threw the rod. Just burned tons of oil as it got older. Finally junked it in 2025. Was using more oil than gas. Got my money's worth out of that engine !
The comments in Youtube say he hit an unexploded firework shell.
I've had two mowers lock up when mowing and neither was anything like this. I had one lockup and throw a rod through the bottom when I was mowing my parents yard back in high school, and it did leap off the ground a few inches and make one hell of a racket, but nothing like this video. It had only started clanking about 5-10 seconds before doing this so I had very little warning. The other one I had lockup, all it did was suddenly slow down to barely idling, then just quit. When I tore it down, the rod was in probably two dozen pieces and the crank was scored beyond reuse but there was no violence or noise at all when it happened.
I've had two mowers lock up when mowing and neither was anything like this. I had one lockup and throw a rod through the bottom when I was mowing my parents yard back in high school, and it did leap off the ground a few inches and make one hell of a racket, but nothing like this video. It had only started clanking about 5-10 seconds before doing this so I had very little warning. The other one I had lockup, all it did was suddenly slow down to barely idling, then just quit. When I tore it down, the rod was in probably two dozen pieces and the crank was scored beyond reuse but there was no violence or noise at all when it happened.
My high school girlfriend's father started up his mower at the beginning of the season in 1988 and about 10 seconds into it, it shot the piston, part of the rod and part of the head up against the side of the house. Wasn't quite the dramatic explosion of this video, but it was an eye-opener.
slo town
$200 Site Donor 2026
Probably used something thin like 0w-20 
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At that moment, mowing the lawn and drinking beer day, became drinking beer day....
Probably started long before the mower did
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Bud_One
Site Donor 2025
Probably had 0W-8 oil in it...
Elkins45
Site Donor 2026
Watching it again there’s clearly something white laying on the ground that he hits with the front wheel.
He just went and got another beer!
