Gardeners in the 21st century will have more, even better, power tools than before at their fingertips to accomplish a variety of landscaping chores. Turn back the clock to the mid-1960s and try to remember what you or your parents were using for yard maintenance. Push lawnmowers were popular, and riders were just getting on the scene. Trimmers, leaf blowers, hedge clippers--the mainstay of gardeners today--didn't exist. And forget about some of the more evolutionary and revolutionary changes in power tool development. Multiple tool systems--systems that today give homeowners an opportunity to operate a variety of tools with one power source--weren't even on the drawing board. Neither were the convenient shred 'n' vac products that are now recognized as the optimum way to clean up leaves and other lawn debris.
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