Get Your Dixie Chopper Motors Runnin'

?EUR??,,????'??One Flew Over the Cuckoo?EUR??,,????'???s Nest?EUR??,,????'??? No, South Carolina Shriners, disguised to protect the innocent, motor their Dixie Chopper Mowers on parade day.

What will those Shriners do next?

Eight Shriners from the Shrine Jamil Temple in Columbia, South Carolina, ride Dixie Chopper mowers in parades throughout the state. Bill Oswald, an outdoor power equipment dealer from Lexington, asked the Dixie Chopper people in June of 2003 to donate eight mowers to drive in the parades. The company agreed, recognizing a good sales opportunity when it saw one.

?EUR??,,????'??I have sold a Dixie Chopper at just about every parade, and you can?EUR??,,????'???t believe the excitement and interest we get from people at the parades,?EUR??,,????'?? Oswald reports.

Oswald and his fellow ?EUR??,,????'??Jamil Jokers?EUR??,,????'?? dress up in clown costumes to participate in three annual Shriner parades and 15-20 county, city and town parades in South Carolina. Oswald hauls most of the mowers, and the Jokers pay their own expenses.