We've never had much of a yard before and always managed to get buy without actually owning a lawn mower. We definitely need one for our new home and during this last week the grass grew an incredible amount.
I bought a lawn mower that has self-propelled front wheels and a grass catcher. The back yard definitely has an up and down hill part of it and the self-propelled feature made going uphill not so much a chore. The grass catcher was something that I insisted on having since I spent my youth mowing lawns for pocket money.
I used to like nothing more than to finish mowing the lawn and then going around to rake up the piles of grass rather than having a nice glass of lemonade. I emptied the bag six times which was way better than raking it into piles and then carrying them into the woods.
The lawnmower came in the box and I worried some about the "some assembly required." I need not have worried about it because it went together easily. Basically, you opened the top of the box and took out the extra stuff. You cut the sides in front of it, lowered the side, and rolled it out on to your lawn. The handle lifted up and needed to be screwed in on each side but could be done by hand. Even putting in the oil was easy because they ship it empty but include the oil in the box. The required amount of oil is 20 oz and that was exactly the size of the bottle...how cool was that?
Posted by bbarton at May 15, 2004 04:45 PM