A new popularity of reel lawn mowers, those back-to-basics, motorless machines of days gone by, has boosted sales for Muncie-based American Lawn Mower Co., but it's a trend still waiting to hit ...

Mowing grass is like cutting hair: similar goals (make it shorter!) with different tools to get the job done. And just as barbers can opt for clippers or scissors, superintendents have a choice of ...

CORVALLIS – Considering the 80 million home lawns in the country, there are a lot of people buying lawn mowers. How you choose between rotary, reel and electric models has to do with your situation ...

I've got a new idol. Pat Jordan is 79 and mows the lawn -- with a reel mower. I want to be her. I'm practicing. My friends Jan and Ray McNeilan found a push mower at an estate sale for $35. When they ...

I have a new favorite summer sound. It’s the gentle whir of the blades on my manual lawn mower. It’s a mechanical sound but an oddly soothing one: a shwick shwick shwick of spinning metal, like a ...

If the stereotype is to be believed, guys who use gas lawn mowers would love to someday own a riding mower - after all, few things could be more macho than doing circuits of your lawn sitting on a ...