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Snapper, Inc. is an American company, formerly based in McDonough, Georgia, that manufactures residential and professional lawn-care and snow-removal equipment.Snapper is known for their high-quality products, including rear-engine riding lawnmowers capable of standing on end for storage or repair, and for their invention of the first self-propelled rotary lawn mower.
Simplicity built is first riding tractor in 1957 which was the model Wonderboy. The company rapidly expanded its product line in the sixties to meet the demands of the population shift to American suburbs. Allis-Chalmers purchased the company in 1965, and Simplicity's management bought it back in 1983. Simplicity Manufacturing celebrated its ...
Many of the parts for the 800 and 8000 series designs, excepting the engine, are the same or compatible, and are readily available as new and used parts online, in a rather impressive after-market. The 8000 series remained in production until 1987, when it was replaced by the professional-grade "G" series. The G series ended production in 2004.
In 1958 MTD entered the lawn and garden power equipment industry with the production of an 18-inch (46 cm) power rotary mower. In 1959 MTD began manufacturing self-propelled lawn mowers, garden tractors and other power equipment. In 1962 MTD purchased Sehl Engineering Ltd. of Canada which would later become MTD Products, Ltd. and then MTD Canada.
A man using a gasoline-powered string trimmer. A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, [1] [a] is a garden power tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover.
Reel mowers, also called cylinder mowers [2] (familiar as the hand-pushed or self-powered cylinder lawn mower), have a horizontally rotating cylindrical reel composed of helical blades, each of which in turn runs past a horizontal cutter-bar, producing a continuous scissor action. The bar is held at an adjustable level just above the ground and ...
The first Worthington gang mower was three-wheeled, pulled by horses with their hooves covered in leather to prevent damage to the grass. In 1919 Worthington designed and built a gasoline-powered tractor to pull the mowers. [5] The Worthington tractors were assembled in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, using parts from the Model T Ford. Worthington ...
The brand "Bonmow" appeared in 1954, for a self-propelled 14-inch reel mower. [11] The "Model 45" first appeared around 1968, and came out in three reel widths: 14, 17 and 20 inches (36, 43, 51 cm) and three power options: petrol, mains electricity and battery. They also manufactured a "rotary mower", [12] similar to the famous "Victa" brand.