Posted by Kirk Grau on March 12, 2008 at 05:57:33 from (71.58.156.18):
In Reply to: OT: Push mowers? posted by Casey in Ky on March 11, 2008 at 21:09:49:
Several really good comments so far, I will add my $0.02:
Depending on your physical capabilities and the size of the yard you might want to consider a very light mower without self propel. If there are a lot of turns for trees/obstructions the extra weight of the propel mechanism can become cumbersome.
I have 2 push mowers. a Lawn-Boy I purchased when we bought our first place in town most of 20 years ago and it is still running fine. The second mower was purchased last year after my wife wanted the areas around our current place that get walked mowed more often than I had time for. Criteria was self start/self propel so she could use it. Like you, I haunted the close-out aisle at Lowes/HD/etc. Bought a pretend John Deere from Lowes, the self propel lasted for about 2 uses and boy was it heavy and hard to turn. My wife hated using it so it was returned without even a consideration of repairing it. After a few weeks and having to mow myself, I was going past the local Toro dealer and decided to stop. Spent quite a bit more than I wanted to, but brought a Toro Personal Pace Self Propel mower home. Wife loves it (so do I), the self propel system is really a fine piece of ergonomic engineering and it probably weighs as much as the JD that I returned, but seems to be distributed differently. It really handles easily.
Don't have a long term experience yet, but it has been great for 1 season.
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