modified lawn mowing

I use a self-propelled walk-behind gas mower to do what you're trying to do with a corded electric mower.

Sorry, can't help you. I have a 22-hp lawn tractor with a 48" mowing deck.

Way back when, I mowed my mother's lawn with an electric mower, but I don't think any part of it was more than about 20 feet long.

I've known exactly 2 people in my long life who used corded lawn mowers. Both had postage-stamp lawns where a 50 ft. cord was OK. My city-brother used a manual reel mower for many years and only complained when the grass got ahead of him - ie too long & stringy .. As for your situation - can you start mowing at a point close to the power supply ; with the long cord carefully coiled to feed out as you go back & forth ; away from it ? .. rather than up & down perpendicular to the coil .. Good Luck. God Bless. John T.

Now you know three. This was many years ago on a good sized lawn too. My father converted a reel type mower to electric by mounting a motor. I don't recall the details as it was in the 1950s and I was just a kid at the time.

The lawn was maybe 100 x 60 feet or so.

I use a me-propelled walk-behind gas mower. I do have a corded string trimmer that works well although I have to plug it into different outlets. The cord does find a variety of objects to snag on.

I used one when I was a kid and grew to hate it. We had several trees shedding little twigs that would stop you dead in your tracks. I suppose you could rake the lawn twice, once to get the twigs. I was happy when my father came home with a Firestone reel mower that had a Briggs & Stratton engine onboard.

You're old. John T.

How did you deduce that? I can't remember exactly when rotary mowers became popular but they were a step up from that beast. It was self- propelled and had a lever to take it out of gear but you still had to pull it backwards.

I also have no idea when Firestone went out of the lawnmower business. I believe they even had riding mowers.

We're all old. This is Usenet, not Faecesbook.

I never was on Facebook but I understand it's aging out too.

Still no reason to revise it.

You're not missing much. I joined up using a fake name and fake birthday ; all the other personal details are optional - so I left them blank. My ID " portrait " shows the back of my head and a pipe in my mouth .. I use it to see some posts of my grandkids and a small private community group. That's about it. I'm sure the CIA and FBI could find me if they wanted - but I strongly doubt that anyone else could .. .. or would want to .. John T. ... perhaps ..