[niteowl77]

Clintons were a pretty common, inexpensive "minibike" and "go-kart" engine back when I was a kid. Back in the early-to-mid 60's, we would go to the dump - er, "landfill" - and there would be a pile of old powered reel-type mowers with Clintons and REOs and such, the engines salvageable but the mowers not so much.

Looking back, those powered reel-type mowers were kind of scary.

[EMI_Guy]

Well if that don’t beat all! (Slim Pickens...Blazing Saddles).

My grandfather also had a REO powered reel mower!! Yeah...they look scary but no more so than what you can get today. He retired it and used it as a “tractor” to pull us kids around on an attached wagon. Somewhere I have video of me at the tiller hauling around my siblings. Circa 1961.

[Axenolith]

They do cut grass to perfection though. They also would chop coins like a sheet metal cutter, I have a sub collection of coins that are “mower chops” from metal detecting. I’ve got a mercury dime 2 of the 3 pieces, and a 1928 standing liberty quarter minus about 40% among the group.