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The Consumer Product Safety Commission implemented a mandatory safety standard for walk-behind power mowers in the early 1980s, but excluded riding mowers from the rule.

A number of companies build multi-purpose engines that are used to equip a variety of implements ranging from walk-behind and rider mowers to power washers, snowblowers and more.

“Our own surveys of consumers indicate that ease of maintenance continues to be in the top 10 purchase factors for walk-behind mowers,” Gross says.

No more tilting these walk-behind machines on their sides to drain the oil, spilling some around the driveway or onto your clothing in the process.

“It’s appropriate equipment for my operation,” says Morgan, who’s gotten some funny looks from neighbors and motorists driving by as he’s out with his walk-behind mower, hay rake or baler around his 12-acre property, something he said is “just a little, self-sufficient homestead.”