{"id":250,"date":"2006-05-15T21:10:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T04:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com.previewdns.com\/ocblog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2019-05-20T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:14:21","slug":"electric-mowers-instead-of-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/electric-mowers-instead-of-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Mowers instead of Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three types of mowers typically used by homeowners for residential lawn care: Gas powered mowers, electric mowers and manual push mowers (reel mowers).<\/p>\n<p>Gas mowers are used commercially, but can be a headache for homeowners with smaller lawns. Electric mowers offer ease of use and operation and don&#8217;t have inefficient polluting engines, but sometimes cut quality is not as high as with gas mowers. Reel mowers offer great cut quality, but don&#8217;t bag grass and take sweat effort on the part of the operator (they are great for small lawns).<\/p>\n<p>Some options for electric mowers on the market are:<br \/>\nBlack &amp; Decker and Yard Machines.<br \/>\nHybrid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoplepoweredmachines.com\/brill_accu.htm\">electric reel mowers<\/a> are also available.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting idea for people who want an electric mower that will mow the lawn for them is this Robotic mower. How this works is a mystery to me, but if it works for vacuums, maybe it can work for lawn care.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More:<\/strong><br \/>\nGood listing of Electric Mowers from various manufacturers<br \/>\nA good overview of  mowers at <a href=\"http:\/\/landscaping.about.com\/od\/helpforconsumers\/tp\/mower_reviews.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">About.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three types of mowers typically used by homeowners for residential lawn care: Gas powered mowers, electric mowers and manual push mowers (reel mowers). Gas mowers are used commercially, but can be a headache for homeowners with smaller lawns. Electric mowers offer ease of use and operation and don&#8217;t have inefficient polluting engines, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/electric-mowers-instead-of-gas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electric Mowers instead of Gas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}