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SWISHER HISTORY
Back before electricity came to rural Missouri Max Swisher was producing lawn mowers from
his mother’s chicken house. Max never liked to mow grass. He installed a gearbox on his
family’s lawn mower creating a self-propelled unit. By tying one end of a rope to the mower
and the other end to a tree in the center of the yard the mower circled the tree, shortening the
rope and guiding the mower in concentric circles. Max enjoyed relaxing under a shade tree while
his invention did all the work.
Max had designed his first self-propelled rotary lawn mower to do his dirty work for him.
Neighbors noticed his new invention and began asking him to make more. Today, 60 years
later, Swisher Mower and Machine Company, Inc. is still producing innovative lawn and garden
and ATV/UTV equipment designed to give us all more “relaxing in the shade” time.
Swisher products have been featured nationally on television programs such as Regis and Kathie
Lee and seen in publications like ATV Magazine
, Country Journal, Popular Mechanics
Magazine and others. In January 2000 Popular Mechanics Magazine named Max’s zero turning
radius riding mower one of the 20
th
century’s top household inventions.
Swisher offers value and function in its products to meet your grounds maintenance needs.
CELEBRATING OVER 60 YEARS OF INNOVATION
1945 - 2007
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