The lawn care equipment market has come a long way from its 'grass roots'

Lawn care equipment owes its success to a process in the clothmaking industry.

Mechanical mowing became possible early in the 1830s, when an English engineer named Edwin Budding realised that a machine used to shear the nap of velvet in a textile mill could very easily shear his overgrown grass at home.

Budding invented an ingenius he developed cylinder, or reel-type mower. It was a series of blades arranged around a cylinder with a push handle. It looked much like the push lawn mowers of today, but nothing like the commercial lawn mowers that are so popular now.

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In 1870, Elwood McGuire of Richmond, Indiana designed a machine that brought push mowing to the masses. It was lighter, easier to push and had fewer moving parts than the older versions. By 1885, America was building 50,000 lawnmowers a year.

Towards the end of the 19th Century, men from all walks of life began realizing what a chore it was pushing one of those clunkers around the garden every week, so they started thinking of ways to get power behind their lawn care equipment.

The first gas-powered mowers were manufactured in 1919 by Colonel Edwin George. The US was in the midst of a depression and a war made business difficult for Colonel George, but the powered lawn mower was here to stay.

The lawn care market has evolved to the point where Honda is now manufacturing and marketing Honda lawn mowers. Unfortunately, Honda has decided to used its engineering ability to produce flimsy, expensive units that cannot compare to commercial lawn mowers.

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