You must have some neat highways. Hereabouts they whack away at weeds and
mixed brush with whirling chain. The rocks, bones and bottles would eat
reel mowers for lunch.

Now golf courses love "finishing mowers" like that.

"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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Most of the big power mowers I see used by highway maintenance crews or
the parks department are reel mowers. They're pulled behind tractors
with shaft drives and hydraulic height adjustments and cut 8 foot wide
swaths.

The highway guys sometimes don't get back to a spot until the grass is 3
feet tall. The reel mowers seem to handle it just fine.