A retired Winnipeg man is making the most of his spare time and scaring his neighbours in the process.
William Sharpe invented a remote control lawn mower and it looks a little odd to onlookers seeing the grass essentially cut itself.
“I had people squeaking their tires on the front streets stopping just to see what was going on,” said Sharpe. “They couldn’t find an operator, they were dumb founded.”
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Five years of labour and love, not to mention thousands of dollars, have been fed into this remote controlled lawn mower.
Several prototypes, and a lot of late nights later, the lawn mower is finally working.
It’s operated like an R/C plane and powered by battery.
Sharpe hopes one day he’ll market it to mow the links remotely, but it’s not just golfers who could benefit.
“If people had physical impairment and weren’t either strong enough or weren’t physically capable to stand up and push their mower, something like that could be useful in giving them back a little bit of independence,” said Megan Farrell, who was amazed at the first sight of the mower.
Independence was something the 70-year-old was able to maintain through his determination to make the mower move.
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