How do beverage cans get so shredded??

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lawnmower shrapnel.

It's like seeing a Deer in your Headlights.
Ya Gotta Head straight for it !
 

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If you've ever mowed any ditches or public areas with tall grass you instantly know where canslaw comes from. My gravely zero turn will shred then into 6000 pieces
 

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And the mowers don't just shred cans! On another forum we have a member who hunts SoCal parks and in almost every thread he has found "cut silver".
 

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And the mowers don't just shred cans! On another forum we have a member who hunts SoCal parks and in almost every thread he has found "cut silver".

yea I've gotten coins also

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Shredded aluminum cans are to lawnmowers as trailer park homes are to tornadoes...

The latter classified as Urban Renewal...
 

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I am guilty of causing canslaw with my mower. Its an addiction. Anger Management toward the system.
 

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I am guilty of causing canslaw with my mower. Its an addiction. Anger Management toward the system.

We have a deposit law here , so I'm afraid the system will win if a can don't get cashed in.
I've whacked some stuff through blades though.
The garden hose ..my neighbors satellite cable , (twice... blush) rugs ,rags ,foam , and sundry items.
Now I understand why I smile afterwards.:occasion14:
 

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I'd be inclined to agree with you guys in most cases, but I was up in the mountains this weekend, and found shredded cans in a place where I can guarantee no mower has ever been. *Twilight Zone theme song*:laughing7:
 

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Some people feel that when they hit a can with there mower it deserves a proper bieral and what better place than the mountains. It is either that or ailians pick one.
 

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I'd be inclined to agree with you guys in most cases, but I was up in the mountains this weekend, and found shredded cans in a place where I can guarantee no mower has ever been. *Twilight Zone theme song*:laughing7:

Teens at a Camp Fire showing off that they can Tear cans with their Bare hands & teeth ? :dontknow: or other animals
 

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Some people feel that when they hit a can with there mower it deserves a proper bieral and what better place than the mountains. It is either that or ailians pick one.

I am going with Aliens!
 

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Back when I could and did hike the wilderness, cans were knife targets, ashtrays when cut in half and wonderful to blow apart with shotguns. Even made a fishing lure once by cutting up a can I found. Didn't work though...
 

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While everyone sleeps leprechauns come out and Destroy cans and hide them under the grass
 

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My wife's first time on our big Toro zero-turn, she ran over one of our laying hens.
I have pictures. Sorry, can't post them. Too graphic.
 

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My wife's first time on our big Toro zero-turn, she ran over one of our laying hens.
I have pictures. Sorry, can't post them. Too graphic.

that's funny :laughing7: and yes probably best not to show the ground chicken :tongue3:
 

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