NY man marches into record book with lawnmower on chin

NEW YORK — Pushing a running electric lawnmower for 71 meters is not a difficult thing to do, but try doing that distance not pushing it, but balancing it on your chin.

New Yorker Ashrita Furman broke, by more than 50 meters, his existing Guinness World Record for “the far- thest distance walked balancing a powered lawnmower on the chin”.

When he finally lowered the machine to the pavement, Furman had traveled 71.53 meters, easily besting his previous mark of 20 meters.

“I pushed beyond what I had done before by a lot and I’m very, very happy,” Furman said on Thursday.

Although he made the feat look easy, Furman said he was constantly battling the elements.

“Wind is really your enemy in this kind of balancing, and I had a couple of gusts of wind where the lawnmower was felt going to spin off,” he said.