Re: (ET) Electric Push Mowers

[Brenda Harrison & Tim Krokowski <krowharr bcpl net>]

Hi Steve,
        I haven't upgraded from my corded electric pushmower yet but I am 
lloking
forward to hearing what the list has to say.  I did check out some of the
features of Black & Deckers cordless and I really liked the one handle
height adjustment of all 4 wheels.  I can't remember if it was
self-propelled but I hope so because it had more weight than was
comfortable for any extended pushing.  Honda made a gas-powered pushmower
that was a dream to operate (for an ice).  It had an electric start,
self-propelled, quiet compared to normal mowers, good cornering.  I know
this because my 70+ year-old neighbor let me borrow it one time.  I hope
you can find an electric equivalent but this would be perfect if that
fails.  Good luck!

Tim Krokowski

"It all started with compact fluorescent lights.  Before you know it there
was a corded electric pushmower, an active/passive solar house and then an
electric tractor.  Who knows what's next!  Oh yeah, I just got that
Inverter/battery backup for the house."

At 09:40 PM 5/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
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>--- Steven Naugler
>--- snaugler earthlink net
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