There is a lot less noise pollution with these too!

I had a push mower to cut grass when I was a kid - I was probably about 12 or 13 when my grandmother bought a gas mower. I was not allowed to start it - I just got to push it around the yard after she got it started. It was quite a novelty to me at first but it took twice as long to cut the grass as pushing the kid powered one - the gas one had to have the grass unclogged from the bottom a lot and then it had to cool before it would re-start.

I bought one at a local Home Depot several years ago when I was living in a duplex - it was a very small yard. When I was moving back to an apt., I put it out on the curb. I didn't know if anyone would want it or not since most people have power mowers.

It was not out there 10 minutes when an older man came and got it. I wished that I had had it when I was living in my daughter's rental house but since being out in the TX heat tends to make me ill (maybe it is blood pressure related-not sure) and it was a large yard, I hired someone to come mow the grass.

He surprised me though. Instead of bagging the grass for the garbage (most neighbors had 2 bags of grass per week on the curb), he used a mulch mower - it was not messy and the grass was fabulous. And he only mowed it every other week.

If I buy a house this year, I plan to buy one of these and have my grandson come over and push it around and mow the grass for me. With one of these, if I went out at sunrise before the heat of the day, maybe I could even mow the grass again since it wouldn't wake the neighbors like a power mower. I wish I had thought of it before.