Reel Mowers and Catchers

Here I want to explore the grass catcher in the 20th Century context but only pertaining
to reel mowers. Future parts will address a couple of specific anomalies with catchered
reel mowers and then rotary mower catchers will be addressed.

The first powered mowers were huge! Ransome's 1902 machines were behemoth.
In walk-behind or ride-on guise, they had front mounted catchers with an overly-engineered
emptying Grassbox. Operators could turn a handle that would - through chains or wires,
pulleys or sprockets - move a side plate that would push the grass sideways out of the catcher.
Greens and Shanks employed similar systems.

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