Does anyone mow the grass barefoot ??

I always mow the grass in bare feet, although my wife is often telling me I should wear shoes for safety. I was wondering if there are any others that mow in bare feet. And seriously, has anyone who does mow in bare feet ever suffered a serious injury??

 

i always mow the grass barefoot, just to get that first hand feel of fresh cut grass. and as far as a serious injury, the closest i've come to a serious injury was a leaf falling on my foot. i was totally paranoid i might get an itch.

 

This might be unrelated but I knew someone in high school who rode a motorcycle barefoot and somehow mangled up his foot. He recovered, eventually.

 

Always. I have a rider, so the dangers are less than a push type mower.

 

I used to always mow barefoot when the mother wasn't around to nag about it

 

Sure do. The green grass stains are only one plus. It's more fun and I'm more sure footed. Only some sort of OSHA protection boots would protect you from the blade. "Cool spruce" from Maine would be the best barefooter to ask. It's a part of his business to do landscaping if I remember.

 

the "only" thing shoes might help with is if the blades kicked up a rock and it hit your foot, it might, just might prevent an injury but otherwse shoes are no help.

when I was stationed in England, I had one of those push mowers with the blades attached to the wheels, it was great to use because it didn't cost anything to operate and I always did it barefoot. as rugged soles said, the green grass stains are a plus.

 

I love the green stains, they're impossible to wash off. My dogs also walk around with green paws.

I used to have a push mower, but every time I used it, the neghbours would come knocking and bring their motor mower around as they felt sorry for us, so we gave in and bought a motor mower in the end.

Good to hear others mow barefoot with no problems, I'll definitely keep it up.

 

I also have a push mower (reel mower, not powered), it'd be very difficult to get that pulled over your feet because if you slip forward, you push the mower away from yourself and if you slip backward, you stop pushing and the blades immediately stop moving.
I don't trust power tools in general, so I wouldn't use a motor or electrical mower no matter what I was wearing, even if I had an entire meadow to mow.

 

I have mowed a lawn barefoot but, it was with a push mower. I did not feel at risk because of the reasons mentioned by Myranya. I know the blades of a power mower would cut through the work boots I wear when cutting my mother's lawn however, my personal phobia forces me to wear them.

 

I have an electric power mower and lawn mowing is about the only thing I don't do barefoot, mainly because of the green feet that stay like forever.
I don't mind black or grey feet though.
When mawing I always wear my good oldfashioned origanally dutch wooden shoes.

 

Yes, I do do it barefoot, and even back when I mowed for a living (long ago) I was pretty casual about it. As you say, only the OSHA boots can really stop the blade of even a weak mower. I never wore those except in those winters when I had to run the chainsaw a lot more than I do these days. At the end of it, I was mowing in Tevas---which got me a lot of attention, let me tell you!

Now I only mow my own yard---on one of the riders my son likes to refurbish, bf of course, and I have a week whacker equipment for my work, which I use barefoot (the operator is the only one the blade, or the strings, can't touch) The small amount of push mowing I still do, is done bf, although I'm not in it for the green stain. That gets washed off along with anything else at the end of the day.

My work these days is gardening, garden design, project management, and pruning. I'm going to put up a gallery soon to show why this sort of work is ideal for barefooting. In fact, with moss gardening, it should be required!

 

Grass stains are easily removed with a little Soft Scrub with Bleach and a mild scouring pad.

 

Rugged_Soles, that is the worst thought I've ever heard someone have.

HEY! LETS NOT WEAR FOOTPROTECTION AT ALL WHILE OPERATING A QUICKLY SPINNING METAL BLADE JUST BECAUSE OUR NORMAL FOOTWEAR PROBABLY WON'T MATTER ANYWAY!

I myself have slipped whille pulling a pushmower back up a hill and had my foot saved by that 1/2" of rubber that is my normal shoe sole. that 1/2second between the killswitch is released and the blade stops could be just the 1/2second you need to get your foot butchered.

 

I just don't mow the lawn.

 

I guess I should have said that my bf mowing assumes level lawn. Mine is. Way back long ago when I did some mowing as part of my work, I had all sorts of lawns, some very steep. I honestly don't know what I'd do now if I faced such lawns again. Thankfully, I don't have to. Life is better now

 

only with a reel mower

anything motorized, and i'm wearing safety boots. a kid i knew lost half a foot to a mower.

 

This guy in the neigborhood used to

we call him lefty now and boy does he love his riding lawn mower

 

Of course I always mow grass barefoot. I do everything barefoot.

Wearing shoes when mowing increases your chances of possible injury since you have no direct contact with the ground and lose the stability and control that being barefoot gives you. It's the same principle as driving with shoes on vs. driving barefoot. Barefoot is safer. Tactile sensation gives you more control.

I currently live basically on the side of a mountain. There is a yard area, but most of it is on a steep slope. It is practically impossible to walk on this slope with shoes on without slipping. I would never even consider trying to mow this lawn with anything on my feet. As it is, with me being barefoot, I can easily maneuver my lawn mower (a gas-powered mower) up, down, or across this steep sloping lawn with safety and perfect stability.

The only possible hazard to bare feet that shoes might ever be useful for, that I can think of, would be to protect from extreme temperature conditions - danger of burning or frostbite. Mowing grass doesn't present any such extreme conditions. As barefooters, we should leave speculation of remote "what if's" to the shoddies and shoe police who like to dwell on such things.

 

to much dog shit im my yard for that