TBL Field Test: Fiskars Max, The World’s Weirdest-Looking Reel Mower?

Fiskars StaySharp Reel Mower

I love the smell of lawn-mower gas fumes in the summer, the sweaty-snug fit of industrial foam earplugs, dodging the machine-gun fire of sticks and rock fragments from a mulching blade, dust clouds clinging to nose hairs and, of course, the season’s most invasive allergens.

Is it another lawn-mowing season already?

So maybe I’m ready to try something different this year. That’s why I’ve been taking a Fiskars StaySharp Max Reel Mower for a test spin lately. Fiskars calls the $250 machine the world’s most advanced reel mower. TBL will add this asterisk: also the world’s most bizarre-looking reel mower.

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