If you only have a small patch of lawn or grow short, warm season grass, then a standard push-behind mower may not be the best tool for the job. Reel mowers can cut grass shorter and more precisely ...

In 1962, when I was a teenager, my father gave our neighbor, Mr. Gruder, $10 for a reel mower of my very own. The ash handle shone with age and use, and it had a canvas grass catcher. Mr. Gruder had ...

When Eric King moved from his apartment in Pittsburgh to a single-family home with a lawn, he bought a manual lawn mower instead of the usual gas-powered kind. He figures he's putting money in his ...

For a small, flat lawn of fine grass, a manual push reel mower can give a cleaner cut than a powered rotary costing three times as much, with no petrol, no battery, no cord, and almost no maintenance.