OT - Best height for lawnmower handle?

I would think whatever is comfortable for you. If you can't find the perfect place, make it a little lower. Making it lower will help if you trip/slip. Lower you may be more inclined to fall ON IT, rather than UNDER it.

Hank

Belly button +/- and inch or so. Or what feels comfortable to you.

I've seen years ago adjustable settings with like 4 or 5 holes to set the handle height with screws to so my guess is it depends on your comfort. I haven't bought any lawn mower for years so I don't know if anything has changed since but I guess either go to web sites that sell mowers and look at their specs or just google this question. I would visit more than one site tho to see if you are getting more or less the same answers. If not, go to more sites yet.

I've read of a study of women workers pushing carts. Handles at 2, 3, and 4 feet were about the same.

I mow half an acre without self-propulsion. My handle is set as high as possible, but it's 8" below my elbows. If it were higher, it would be easier on my shoulders.

My arms go down more steeply than the handle. It might be ideal if they lined up. If the handle went down more steeply than my arms, pushing could transfer weight from the big back wheels to the little front wheels. Too much of that would probably be bad.

He was probably wearing sandals too.

Depending on the mower, earplugs may not be such a big factor, but having something over the eyes is a good idea, if only for the dust kicked up.

I treated a guy who slipped and his foot went under the mower on level ground. Lost half his foot. I cringe everytime I see poeple using push mowers on hills and ditches.

Hank

I have never used safety glasses or earplugs while mowing a lawn.

How about a helmet?

Only when I lawnmower race

I should wear ear plugs. I notice the effect when I turn the rider off. When I use the push mower, it's always in a dangerous condition, on a hillside. Either pulling or pushing with my belly.

Greg

me neither. i do have an ipod shuffle attached to my fullsized headphones.

Good idea, Bu8t when you look under it to see about the funny noise, make sure it doesn't clip one of the horns off...... Those things are hard to repair...... ..........you gotta kill a cow and everything......

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