Anyone building an electric push mower?

[Bicycle Bob]

I have a $5 corded mower, and a $2 string trimmer, with extra string, from the local garage sales. The cord, however, cost actual money. It would be a pain if I had many more trees, etc, but managing cord takes about as much time as filling a gas tank, on average. Sometimes, I'd rather have a push mower. It is one of the few primitive human powered machines with a decent impedence match, and is often quite elegant other ways too.
Mowed lawns are a ridiculous fashion, but they sure cheer up and calm down the neighbors. I once had a slighly short cord, and decided to keep one tall-grass corner as an amenity for lounging in, but was quickly braced by a fellow who called himself the Victoria City weed inspector. I really should have asked to see his ID.

[Ryland]

Corded mowers are a great idea and if someone has a large area to mow next to their house then that seems like the best use.
My house we use the Reel mower for most of it but there are spotty areas in the front where we are required to mow, between the street and sidewalk, around the trees, 200 feet from the outdoor outlet, going thru a window would be the next option, a 100 foot cord would be needed for that as there are shrubs.
Anyway, my point for this thread was that there are a handful of people who are making electric cars, motorcycles, bicycles, the motor needed for a mower is going to be between what you need for a motorcycle and a bicycle, but with a bicycle you want a short compact motor most often, motorcycle you normally want more power, there are a few people playing with tread mill motors 120v motors that sound like they are universal motors so they can run off a/c or d/c now that seems ideal! put a few 36v dewalt lithium batteries on there to get the voltage up there, then put a switch on to switch between the battery bank and the cord, mow the large areas with the cord, then do the remote trimming with the battery pack.

[random_variable]

Black & Decker recalled a bunch of cordless mowers back around 2004, but no one really heard about it.

You can find these broken mowers on Craigslist, usually for $5, and get them fixed for free.

I did that and the mower works great. I still use my reel mower most of the time though.

[ShadeTreeMech]

that's a great hint on the recalled mowers. Much easier to repair a broken cordless mower than to build it up from scrap.

While my yard might benefit from a corded mower, i would prefer the type that is corded and cordless, ie you unplug it when needed but can plug it in for full power when needed as well. My yard is awfully large and I would need about 67 meters of cord to mow it all.