At what time did man kind start to have there lawns cut?

Question

How long before the invention of the gas powered machines did this take place.

Answer 1

Right after they achieved a level of education and thus money which enabled them to do so. See dictionary on use of there their and they're please.

Answer 2

1765

Answer 3

when it got up to their knees

Answer 4

from eternity

Answer 5

Like many, many of our modern day trends it was handed down to us from royalty.  Diamond rings, white wedding dresses, Christmas trees in the house, silverware...a million things come to us from royalty.

The "common folk" wanted to immitate the royalty.  Way back when, the only people who had lawns were royalty.  

They had sheperds who tended small flocks of sheep, and kept them moving about the royal estate.   Sheep do a simply lovely job of keeping grass "mowed down" to a very nice, and very even height.

Golf was invented by the Scottish.  They actually use to play it on fields sheep grazed on, since the sheep did such a nice job.

People wished to copy royatly, so of course wealthy people had gardners, and kept some sheep, so they too could have manicured lawns.  

After the push mower was invented, the sheep went.  Now much to man's folly we spend a great deal of time, effort, and money into maintaining laws.  It would have been better if royalty had been into planting gardens, or fruit trees...we would have gotten more out of the deal!

As for how long before the invention of the gas machine...honestly I don't know.  Part of royalty maintaining a lawn about a castle or an estate was simple safety.  If the grass is only two inches high, it does not give your enemies much cover to sneak up on you, nor much fuel to light on fire, and try to burn you out.  

You will have to do some research back into the medieval  period, when people started to congrigate in castles and estates.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 6

It began in the Dark Ages, when misery and suffering drove men to perform unnatural and irrational acts of barbarism

Answer 7

The first patent for a mechanical lawn mower described as a "Machine for mowing lawns, etc." was granted on August 31, 1830 to engineer, Edwin Beard Budding  from Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. It was reel-type mower that had a series of blades arranged around a cylinder. John Ferrabee owner of Phoenix Foundry at Thrupp Mill, Stroud, first produced the Budding lawn mowers.

The first United States patent for a reel lawn mower was granted to Amariah Hills on January 12, 1868. Early lawn mowers were often designed to be horse drawn, the horses often wore oversize leather booties to prevent lawn damage. In 1870, Elwood McGuire of Richmond, Indiana designed a very popular human pushed lawn mower, not the first to be human pushed, however, McGuire's design was very lightweight and a commercial success.

Steam powered lawn mowers appeared in the 1890's. In 1902, Ransomes produced the first commercially available mower powered by an internal combustion gasoline engine. In the United States, gasoline powered lawn mowers were first manufactured in 1919 by Colonel Edwin George.

On May 9, 1899, John Albert Burr patented an improved rotary blade lawn mower.

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Answer 8

The only people that cut their lawn were people in huge mansions and they could afford gardeners. They say the first lawn mower was invented in 1827 but they were either manually pushed or were steam powered invented in 1830. The popularity of games like lawn tennis continued the push to make the thing work easier. A guy named Burr in 1899 had a patent for a gas mower he put a Merces Benz motor on a platform with a blade but it was really too heavy for lawns. Briggs patented a gas engine igniter in 1913.  

But I really think mowing the lawn was a suburb thing from the 50s that is when people really got them... cause then they had lawns to cut. Before most lived in houses with sidewalks and maybe a flower garden but no large property lines that lawn was needed to divide the house from the sidewalk.