105 Years Old Push Reel Mower Restoration - Why Did People Stop Using These?

In this video, I restore an old rusty push reel mower made in Germany in the about the restoration process: It was highly challenging but rewarding. I learned a lot about reel mowers. One of the wheels was chipped and had a lot of missing parts that I had to remake; that required a lot of skill and patience. I worked on it for 15 days every day. If you want to learn more about this antique German push reel mower, I encourage you to watch this video. When I saw it, I was shocked at how bad it looked; it was full of rust, bends, cracks, and missing parts! At the end of the video, I made a test so you can see how it works! More about the push reel lawn mowers: The first United States patent for a reel lawn mower was granted to Amariah Hills on January 12, 1868. In 1870, Elwood McGuire of Richmond, Indiana, designed a human-pushed lawn mower, which was very lightweight and a commercial one in the video was made by Brill, a German company, in 1920, but they also exported the