At that point, the mower's wooden handle was replaced with a crossed, one-piece, metal rod handle with black rubber handgrips. After the war ended, MontaMower production resumed. Production was halted in 1942 for the duration of World War II, when most raw materials were diverted to the war effort. When the MontaMower was first marketed in 1923, it came with a wooden handle very similar to that of a reel- type mower of the time. As the wheels rotated while traveling, they turned the blades to cut the grass. They were thin, small-diameter and had teeth. The blades were ground-driven, as the mower was pushed, by wheels designed almost like gears. It cut a 16-inch swath, and because it was very low to the ground, just 2-1 / 2 inches high, it could cut the grass under most bushes. The MontaMower was advertised as being two tools in one, a mower and a trimmer. The discs were arrayed across the entire face of the mower, cutting edge to edge, which meant that as you cut, you also trimmed. The discs, being small, were low to the ground when working, thus cutting the grass short. To my knowledge, the MontaMower was the only mower of any kind to use it. The pairs of blades were attached in a line across the front of the mower. As they rotated toward each other, they cut the grass. Each pair of discs was on top of the other.
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"A disc mower, the MontaMower had a series of nine pairs of disc blades, with nine cutting teeth on each disc. of Grand Rapids, Mich., from 1923 until about 1962.īy the 1940s, the name of the mower was spelled MontaMower, and the manufacturer was known as Montamower Distributing Co. The mower was sold by the Montamower Sales Co. The Montamower was patented in 1923, and that may have been the first year of actual production. Monta Mower Advertising Popular Mechanics May 1951. I found advertisements with the same as your lawn mower model. This is a vintage MontanaMower, your model was made in the late 1940s-1950s.