If you look at the American Lawn Mower Company’s Promotional Price Leader mower next to their Economy Line mower, they look pretty much the same. But look again and you’ll see that the wheels are quite different. Study the specs and you’ll see that the economy line has the same-sized wheels (8.5” diameter), but they are made of cast iron and not a polymer plastic. They don’t look quite as much like a baby carriage.
Economy Line Mower from American Lawn Mower Co.
Both mowers have four-blade reels and a 14” cutting width, but this economy model has a ball bearing reel instead of a sleeve bearing reel, which seems to be better. But with all that metal, it’s bound to be heavier, which it is, weighing in at 29 lbs versus 19 lbs. If that seems like a disadvantage, you can buy an economy line mower with those pram-like polymer wheels, then its weight will drop to 19 lbs. Not sure about the price.
Both reel mowers have three-section, adjustable rollers, and both cut the grass to a height of between .5” and 1.5”. Like the promotional price leader model, the American Lawn Mower Company’s economy mower also makes a great trimming mower, or so they say.
According to the company, most of their reel mowers will give a clean and precise, scissor-like cut off most turf grasses, including the cool-season grasses like bluegrass, fescue and rye. But we warned, they recommend mowers with more than four blades for low-creeping fine-blade grasses like Bermuda, and tough grasses like St Augustine. Lightweight, four blade mowers simply aren’t heavy-duty enough to cope with tough grasses.
An interesting snippet is that to be able to “assure” a precise, fine cut, this lawn company puts all its reel mowers through a tough inspection test before they are packaged and sold. Each mower has to be able to cut paper that is 3000th of an inch thick, which is a lot thinner than a blade of any type of grass.
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