Lawn Care: Mowers for Difficult Lawns

If your lawn is actually full of trees, or tends to be chewed up by the kids playing football, or is just left to be a wilderness, a high wheeled mower will give you greater manoeuvrability and if you combine this with a rear bag collection system, you’ll find it easier to travel around a large number of obstacles like trees or goalposts in the lawn!

If alternatively, your lawn is sloped or downright hilly, a self-propelled walk-behind mower is easier to manage than one that you have to push – again, large rear wheels will give you extra control in difficult terrain. With a walk-behind mower, always mow across an incline, and never pull a mower back towards your feet.

For the larger garden, every ride-on mower will cope with varied terrain, although some mowers handle better on slopes than others.

For a real jungle of a lawn, garden tractors have the highest horsepower and are the toughest beasts for dealing with difficult circumstances, however there are safety issues to be aware of when using ride-on mowers and garden tractors

Safe Mowing on Rough Lawns

• The higher speed of lawn tractors and riding mowers will cause severe damage to any solid object that the machine hits, so it is important to walk the area and mark out any possible impediments such as concrete housings hidden by grass, broken gate posts tec.
• On the other hand, smaller objects that are in the grass will be picked up and spun out at projectile speed by the mower, so all bystanders, including pets should be cleared from the area as being hit by a pebble or stick thrown out by such a mower can cause serious harm.
• Some rough terrain mowers are very noisy and ear protection is recommended.

Garden tractors can deal with almost anything. Garden tractor image courtesy of www.gardening-tools-direct.co.uk

 

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