Hi Kye
It's a questioning mind that would ask that.
It's a fascinating question in the design and development of rotaries.
There is so much to say here!
Clyde saw the opportunity Rotoscythe saw two decades before...
That is, if you have a power mower make it work!
The difference between agricultural mowers and horticultural lawn
mowers was the intention - the first for productivity; the second for
aesthetic improvement.
Even from the first 1830 Budding patent there was envisaged both!
Why not combine two jobs: the scythes-man and the grass collector.
This would save labour. I have written about this in History.
Clyde is historically important in seeing the changing nature
of the rotary mower. Power could be used to save raking up grass!
The British Rotoscythe saw that much earlier.
The rotary mower had been tamed to turn grass into lawn.
It had become ... respectable.
It's that simple.
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Jack
