(ET) Electric Push Mowers

["Steven Naugler" <snaugler earthlink net>]

To GE fans,
        This query is not related to GE, but concerns electric mowers, so I
thought somewhere in the GE community I might find the right info.  My
folks have asked that I purchase a self propelled, electric start push
mower for my 72 year old mother who wants to mow their lawn but is
intimidated by riding lawn mowers and lawn tractors.  She used to use their
now defunct gas push mower.  (They have a functional Snapper riding lawn
mower, but she won't use it and my Dad cannot use it for the foreseeable
future.)  A couple of years ago there were a number of companies making
cordless electric lawn mowers, at least one of which was self propelled. 
Here are my questions:
1.  Does anyone in the GE tractor community have experience with any of
these electric cordless push mowers?
2.  How well did they work?
3.  How much lawn could they mow?  (Their lawn is about 1/4 acre at most.)
4.  Which ones were (are) self propelled?
5.  Here is the question I almost hate to ask, but if the suitable electric
product is not out there, what (gasp) gasoline product might have the
electric start and easy maneuvering a 72 year old women could deal with?
        Thanks in advance for your help.


--- Steven Naugler
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