Safety tips for a Riding Lawn Mower!

Riding lawn mowers are certainly an easy and efficient way to mow your lawn. However, more so with riding lawn mowers than ordinary lawn mowers, you must take steps to learn the safe and proper way to use your riding lawn mowers. In fact, over 75,000 Americans were injured in riding lawn mower accidents last year. Riding lawn mowers cause some of the most serious injuries for both adults and children.

Unfortunately, adults frequently permit young children to ride on their lap while they cut the lawn, which is never a good idea. With young passengers riding aboard the mowers, there is always the potential that they could fall off the machine while it's running. However, adults also need to use care when using a used riding mower to protect themselves from personal injury. Recent studies have shown that riding mowers have the potential to tip over onto the driver when going up slopes, often resulting in serious injury to the hands and feet. Also, with both riding mower and traditional power mowers, it's important to make sure the yard is free of loose objects, like sticks or rocks, that can project out of the mower during use and cause injury to the face or eyes.

Some riding lawn mowers have proven themselves to be safer than others. Murray riding lawn mowers have been generally accepted as the safest in the industry. If you are buying a used riding lawn mower, be sure to have it completely checked out by a qualified mechanic to make sure that it is completely safe.

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