EXTENSION LAWNMOWER HANDLE

Before lightweight rotary mowers, the ability to mow slopes was
restricted to small hand mowers.

An early invention was to simply supply a longer handle so that the
operator remained at the top of the hill.

The article below dates from 1922. The solution discussed here is
a variant, and it seems quite ridiculous.

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The better solution was to just use a longer handle.
This is, in fact, what happened. The major manufacturers offered
longer handles as an option from about the 1890s.
[This catalogue extract from the Ransomes 1911 range]

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Last edited by CyberJack; 29/09/14 11:56 PM.