lawnmower-starting-up-combustion-engine.wav

An internal gas combustion engine starting up, and then cutting grass as it moves across the lawn. The clip is recorded from an elevated vantage point about 25 feet directly above the lawnmower. In the background some lawn debris can be heard hitting the blade and getting tossed. The variable pitch motor slows as it encounters heavier grass. It is the first grass cutting of the season and, being on the West Coast, the grass is very thick with moisture enhanced growth.

The recording is made with a high quality stereo Zoom H1N portable audio recorder. However, the .mp3 setting was selected during recording to achieve a smaller audio footprint (for another use), melded to a mono channel, then exported to .wav as the preferred format for this repository.