I bought a Scotts hand mower once maybe 7 years ago when we lived in the suburbs. My sons would push it and got fed up because the lot was too big for that sort of thing. On a small plot it does the trick but like battery powered ones, they are limited to that. Then I bought a Honda from a Honda dealer, paid a lot more than the Honda powered otherbrand at Costco I saw the following week for a lot less. Oh well! My boys fought over who would use it. It left me to play golf in my mind while they sweated it out. Now that we moved to a house in the city, the front and back yards are grassless and I watch the flowers grow without the incessant noise of the weekend mower jivecats orchestra.