We tried a push mower and it just did not do the job though we have a good size lawn. We bought a Green Works, battery operated lawn mower from AMZN, the 2 battery kind and we love it. It is save, not too loud, easy to push, the 2 batteries last about an hour for mowing and are interchangeable across all other green works products which we kept adding because we liked them so much. We have the blower, chainsaw (super easy to use and effective if you have a small farm or average to deal with fallen trees), trimmer/edger. My wife is 5'4, I am 6' and we both trade off on using the tools.