Walk-behind mowers

Often a less expensive option, smaller push mowers perform well in smaller residential yards. Unruh says landscape professionals also rely on larger walk-behind mowers on commercial properties.

Vachal adds they can access areas that other products cannot fit into, such as parking lot islands and narrow areas.

“Push mowers, they’re still out there, of course, but they’re not nearly as prolific as they used to be,” Dwyer says. “It seems like everybody has them for cleaning up around the flower beds and medians and places where you’re doing more trimming work than actual mowing work.”