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    Stuie
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    Default The beginnings of rider mowing

    http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_3455322,00.html


    Hope you dont have to register to read it

    The man who changed America's landscape
    By Kelly Tyko
    staff writer
    January 8, 2005

    When you're hitting the yard work today — or watching your neighbors do it — remember Cecil Pond.

    Fifty years ago, the now-80-year-old Treasure Coast resident invented the first lawn and garden tractor, now better known as the riding mower
    Pond's models — the Ride-Away Jr., the Lone Ranger and others — aren't made anymore, though their popularity lives on.
    "Anytime you see someone mowing their lawn on a John Deere or a Craftsman, that's all because of him," said Michael Martino, who wrote a book about Pond.
    Although Pond hasn't mowed his own grass since he was a kid and doesn't have a riding lawn mower or any lawn mower in his Palm City garage, watching people sit while mowing the grass makes him smile.

    "They're mowing their lawn and having fun," he said. "I contributed to that."

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    Stuie
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    Default Re: The beginnings of rider mowing

    If that link wont work try
    http://www.tcpalm.com/

    and click on the main page story but you might have to register

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