From: "Don Phillipson" 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Time to mow an acre ?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:13:44 -0500

 wrote in message
news:1110637827.895889.247960@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...

> If a mower can mow a swath 3 feet wide, and there's 43560 sq ft in an
> acre, the mower has to travel at 2.75 mph to do an acre in an hour.
> Can a mower go 5.5 mph, so the acre only takes half an hour ?

Mowing speed depends on how fast the cutters rotate
(more than on travel speed over the ground.)

-- 
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)