How Does a Lawnmower Work?
The Basics Lawnmowers come in many different sizes, ranging from small, reel-type push mowers with no motor at all to commercial riding machines with multi-cylinder, or even diesel, engines and multiple blades. Between those extremes are the gasoline or electric rotary mowers familiar to most homeowners. All of these mowers have one thing in common; they cut grass by means of a rotating blade. The Blade jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(‘#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first’).attr(‘href’,’http://i.ehow.com/images/a04/l3/gc/a-lawnmower-work-2.1-800X800.jpg’); }); Rotary lawnmower blades look like a flat bar with a few inches on each end tilted at an angle. Only this tilted end is sharpened. These blades are designed to stand the grass up and cut it off. The blade does this because the angle on the end of the blade works the same way as a fan, creating an air current that sucks the grass up toward the blade where the sharpened edge of the rotating blade cuts it off. Push-powered re
