Professional grass-cutting equipment (used by large establishments such as universities, sports stadiums or local authorities and suchlike) usually take the form of much larger, dedicated, ride-on platforms or attachments that can be mounted on, or behind, a standard tractor unit (a “gang-mower”). Either type may use rotating-blade or cylindrical-blade type cutters, although good-quality mown surfaces [...]
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Pull Mowers
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
A pull mower is essentially the same as a manually pushed mower but the propulsion unit pulls the mowing unit instead of pushing it. Thus it is the normal system when a tractor or animal-drawn mower is used.
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Robotic Mowers
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
Robotic lawn mowers represented the second largest category of household autonomous robots used by the end of 2005. A typical robotic lawn mower requires the user to set up a border wire around the lawn that defines the area to be mowed. The robot uses this wire to trim and in some cases to locate [...]
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Hover Mowers
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
Hover mowers are powered rotary push mowers that use a turbine above the spinning blades to drive air downwards, thereby creating an air cushion that lifts the mower off the ground like a hovercraft. The operator can then easily move the mower as it floats over the grass. Hover mowers are necessarily light in order [...]
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Riding Mowers
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
A popular alternative for larger lawns is the riding (or ride-on) mower. The operator is provided with a seat and controls on the mower and literally ‘rides’ on the machine. Most use the horizontal rotating blade system, though usually with multiple blades.
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Rotary Mowers
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
Rotary mowers are often powered by Internal combustion engines. Such engines can be either two-stroke or four-stroke cycle engines, running on gasoline or other liquid fuels. Internal combustion engines used with lawn mowers normally have only one cylinder. Power generally ranges from two to seven horsepower. The engines are usually carbureted and require a manual [...]
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Reel (cylinder) Mowers
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
Reel (cylinder) Mowers
There are four major types of reel mower: push, walk behind power, ride-on power, and tow-behind gang mower. Push mowers are powered by people pushing them and are usually used on very small lawns. The walk power reel mower can be divided into two types: a (largely obsolete) powered version of the push [...]
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Lawnmower History
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
The first Lawn mower was invented by English engineer Edwin Beard Budding in 1827. Budding’s mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and expansive gardens as a superior alternative to the scythe. His patent of 25 October 1830 described “a new combination and application of machinery for the purpose of cropping [...]
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Mowing the Lawn
April 27th, 2007 No Comments
Mowing the Lawn
It seems foolish to sit around and tell people that they have to be careful while mowing the lawn. After all, anyone using a mower is pushing around a piece of steal that is moving over 200 mph.
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Cub Cadets New Zero Turn Riding Mower
April 16th, 2007 No Comments
I Like Cub Cadets new zero turn riding mower. But one thing I did notice in their commercial is that the front end of the mower is a long ways from the mower deck. They show the mower cutting around a tree but the mower deck is not close to the tree. Then they show [...]
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