Traditional Lawn Keeping With A Push Lawn Mower
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Scotts 2000-20 20-Inch Classic Push Reel Lawn Mower and American Lawn Mower Company 1705-16 16-Inch Bent Reel Mower
Aah, the good old days, when all you could hear on a Sunday morning or afternoon was the relaxing sound of a hand pushed lawn mower providing a backdrop sound to the birds singing. Now the cacophony of electric lawn mowers, cultivators, lawn edgers, strimmers compete with the neighbors electric saw, drill, surround sound television and stereo system blasting out disco music to see which can make the most disturbance.
If you live in a quiet neighborhood, it is nice to keep the old traditions going with a push lawn mower. In fact, wherever they live, traditional gardeners still like to use the hand push lawn mower rather than their electric counterparts. Some would say the push mower is essential to good green or lawn keeping, although millions would beg to differ.
For the lawn purist though, who sees having a good lawn as a necessity for the garden, a push mower may still be the preferred option for cutting the grass regularly in the growing season. Luckily, push lawn mowers are still made today, and if anything appear to be doing rather well, helped by the fact that designs have continued to improve over the years. In a small garden, you can hardly justify a ride on lawn mower, so the old fashioned manual mower might be the right choice. It certainly beats most exercise machines, as it least it will get used.
There are many makes of push lawn mowers on the market still, but a couple seem to stand out while searching. One brand is Scotts, and the Scotts 2000-20 20-Inch Classic Push Reel Lawn Mower (pictured above) has picked up a lot of praise from customer reviews at Amazon, a good indicator when more than 500 people have taken the trouble to review the Scotts 2000. It has 9 adjustable cutting heights, 5 heat treated blades, and sells at about $100. The Scotts 415-16S and 815-18S are a few dollars cheaper.
The American Lawn Mower Company have a good choice of push mowers, including the American Lawn Mower Company 1705-16 16-Inch Bent Reel Mower. Priced similarly to the Scotts mowers mentioned above, this push mower has a very traditional look about it, and also seems to be well received by customers.
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