Jeff Rausch Marengo, Illinois Jeff Rausch has been running his own landscaping company, Daybreaker Lawn Care, for a year now. The company began steadily gaining accounts because of his perseverance to succeed in this slowly upturning economy. “When I was a kid, I always enjoyed lawn mowing anyways. And then recently, due to the economy primarily needed to do something else. So I decided to get into landscaping just because…
The vast majority of self-propelled gasoline walk-behind mowers are rotary type, meaning they cut the grass with a horizontal blade attached to the vertical drive shaft of the engine. The deck is a protective housing component and an integral part of the mower that supports the engine and wheels and controls the airflow to maximize the cutting and bagging efficiency. Most decks are steel, but some are aluminum alloy or high-impact…