How to Properly Use Your Lawn Mower

You should take proper care for your lawn mower. If this should break down, you will have to pay a lot of money to have it repaired or worse, buy a new one. Remember that lawn mowers are not cheap and if you don't want to push it, you may have to spend $500 or even more.

One way to take care of it is to know how to properly use it. You don't just push it in one direction and think that is all it takes because it takes skill and practice to be able to make the lawn look good after mowing.

The Lawn Mower has Come a Long Way

Edwin Beard Budding lawnmower

From the lowly and bulky manual contraption with rotating blades that cut grass, to a high tech all-around garden device, the lawn mower has come a long way.

The first lawn mower was invented in 1827 by an English engineer named Edwin Beard Budding. He was able to conceptualize the device while visiting a textile factory and observed a machine cutting nap from fabric and thought it could be adapted to cut grass.

Budding got to the drawing board and came up with the first and standard design of what is nowadays the most common of rotary mowers. Its basic framework resembled a bulky push cart with a set of wheels and rotary blades that are activated by a dragging motion on expansive grass-covered grounds and wide gardens.