No mower is a one fits all type my mate has at least 7 mowers that he uses depending on the job he is doing and he takes which mower/slasher he knows the job requires. He has 3 Hondas, 1 three speed self propelled ( still working) that he uses on very gentle straight forward jobs, a 2 speed self propelled that has a blown box that he uses as a push mower that he can bash around a bit and a non self propelled one. These all have catchers so they get used on various jobs that need the clippings collected.He then has 2 lightweight 2 stroke sidethrow utilities, not really sure what he uses these on but I assume he uses these to clean up around the edges and in the harder to get places around trees and garden beds etc after he has run his 24 over the bigger areas. He has a standard PT/catcher mower that is just a back up machine for what I don't know. He also has a Deutscher self propelled that he was conned into buying, I tried to talk him out of it, but it is far to difficult to use on suburban blocks
