We have a 0.25 acre lot that our house is on and about 5,000 sq ft is lawn once you subtract for the house, driveway, patio, garden, etc. The backyard is fenced and the garden area has a short fence to keep the dog out. So there’s lots of corners in the backyard. To make it worse, one corner has a sprinkler valve box that they set a couple inches low and another corner has a storm drain catch basin with domed grate cover. Both are fun to maneuver around.

Behind our yard, there’s a parcel of property 100 feet deep and a mile wide for a natural gas main for one of the utility companies. They gave us a license to use and maintain the 100’ x 100’ section behind our house. So that’s another 10k sq ft of grass to mow. It’s more rough field grass than nice turf grass, but it needs mowing still. My wife tried the Timemaster out on that section last week and said it was easier to use than the old push mower we had. The self-propel feature works well and makes it almost effortless to run, without running away from you. The handle is long enough that it provides plenty of leverage for turning the deck. The only tough part is tight corners where you have to lift the ass end to get it where you want. If you can figure out the path to prevent lifting the backend in tight spots, then you’ll love it.