A gardener looking for unkempt lawns and offering to mow strangers’ lawns for free has gone viral after his random acts of ‘mowing’ were filmed.
Tim Parker, known as Tim the Lawnmower Man, explores the west sydney looking for untamed gardens and offers to transform your lawn for free.
Full-time firefighter mows neighbors’ lawns in his spare time and shares the end result on his tik tok and YouTube channel.
In a video shared on Tiktok on Tuesday, Tim is seen knocking on a stranger’s door and offering to mow the man’s front yard for free.
In a video shared on TikTok, Tim the Lawnmower Man is seen offering to mow the lawn in a homeowner’s overgrown front yard (pictured)
‘This is going to be a bit of a strange request, you probably haven’t had this before, can you do me a favor and let me clean this for free?’ Tim asks the owner of the house.
Tim explains to the homeowner that his social media followers love to see overgrown grass transformations as they find it “strangely satisfying” and showed the man some of his videos before he started cutting the grass. grass.
The TikTok clip has racked up a whopping 10.4 million views with users praising the social media sensation.
“I love this guy… just an overall great person,” one user wrote.
“You’re healthy, you’re not annoying people, you’re not obnoxious, and you’re actually doing him a favor,” another user commented.
“Actually, I don’t mind the satisfying lawn mowing, I enjoy the fact that you’re doing something for people just because, very healthy,” chimed in a third user.
Tim the Lawnmower Man said fans find his lawn mowing videos ‘oddly satisfying’ and claims his free service is a ‘win’ for everyone as neighbors clean up the yard, viewers get a video and if the video works well, it generates income for him. buy new garden tools
Other users joked that they would let their gardens grow in the hope that he would knock on their door.
“Stopped doing my lawn hoping someone would want to come over and do a TikTok,” one user wrote.
The social media sensation told the Daily Mail Australia that he has cut around 100 lawns in the last 12 months.
Parker explained that the owners were generally wary when he approached them, but that they were usually on board after seeing some of his videos.
The lawn enthusiast said mowing lawns for free was a win-win for everyone involved.
“It’s just a different business model where everybody wins,” Parker said.
‘Someone gets a free cleanup, my viewers get a video, and if the video works well enough, I get my costs back.
“I also enjoy playing with different power teams and this gives me an excuse to spend money on them.”
Some users called Mr. Parker’s videos “exploitative” as he makes money from the videos he posts online.
Tim’s lawn videos follow a similar pattern to that of another Australian TikTok influencer who faced backlash last month for his “random acts of kindness” videos, which viewers called “disrespectful” and “exploitative.”
Harrison Pawluk, 22, produces viral clips of himself doing good deeds for strangers, from delivering bags of food to the homeless to paying for a woman’s groceries and delivering flowers to elderly people.
The full-time firefighter and spare-time lawn mower (pictured) said he has cut at least 100 lawns in the last 12 months.
However, his footage caused a stir when an elderly shopper slammed him for a widely circulated video in which he gave her a bouquet of flowers while she sat down for coffee in a mall.
The shopper, Maree, said she felt ‘dehumanized’ and ‘like clickbait’ because of the episode, and the clip of the Pawluk incident racked up more than 58.8 million views.
Elsewhere, viewers criticized another video that showed him handing a bag of items to people sleeping rough, with one person commenting, “Exploiting the homeless.”
TikToker manager Taylor Reilly told Daily Mail Australia that Pawluk received threats through his messages as a result of the backlash to his video.
“It is extremely rare that there is controversy with this, probably because it went viral,” he said. ‘Harrison usually gets nothing but gratitude.’
Reilly apologized to Maree and said Pawluk would be prepared to take down the video.
At the time of writing, the video is still up on Pawluk’s TikTok profile.
Australian TikTok influencer Harrison Pawluk, 22, faced backlash last month for his “random acts of kindness” video, in which he saw him deliver flowers to an unsuspecting coffee-drinking woman, who he later called the “dehumanizing” episode (pictured)
