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Mowing the Lawn to Infinity — 7 Comments

  1. I happened upon your blog, and your latest post was the best electric lawn mower review I’ve ever read. The amazon electric lawn mower product reviews have nothing on you!

    Your writing is fresh and crisp.

    -Lydia

  2. I’ve been thinking about an electric mower, but have worried about one having enough charge. There’s one out — I think by Sears — that will also allow you to plug in an extension cord to finish a lawn if the charge runs out.

  3. I have a Black and Decker. It’s rated for 1/3 acre, and on my old lawn, typical for suburbia, it did very well unless I let the lawn get too long. Here, on our half acre, it takes three charges to do it all. I’ve had it for three years and really like it. If your lawn isn’t too large, you should be fine.

    With the plug-in models, I’d be afraid of mowing over the extension cord. I do it all the time with hedge trimmers already.

  4. I watched my neighbor with a corded mower and she looked just like she was vacuuming the lawn. I’m sure I’d run over the cord. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve run over the vacuum cord.

  5. On the town lot we previously had, a corded mower worked fine. You just set up a system where you move consistently away from the house so you’re not fighting the cord.

    Sounds you need what we have on the farm, Jean–a riding mower. My lawn (bless my in-laws for planting a large one way back when…) takes about three hours even on the rider, which has a blade swath nearly double a push mower.

    Or maybe what you need is a goat!

  6. So that rig pulls behind an ATV or something, then? It wouldn’t work well on my lawn, I don’t think. It wasn’t well enough planned out and I’m continuously dodging trees and flower beds (though I’ve sodded in a couple of those….)