Murray Mowers are a quite popular among America's lawnmowers. While they aren't rated highly for Lawnmower derby competitions, they are valued because of the price tag on a variety of lawnmowers and garden tractors for which you might be in the market.
Murray Lawnmowers, originally called Murray Ohio Manufacturing Company, founded by J.W Murray in Cleveland, Ohio, originally manufactured a variety of machines for residential and farm use. Today, they're still around and going strong as consumers who've purchased them in the past tend to become repeat buyers over the years.
Murray lawnmowers offer an abundant selection. You can find walk-behind, riding, mulching and bagging mowers all for a reasonable price. Riding mowers by Murray, such as the mid-engine riding mower (for smaller yards, offering a 30-inch cut) or the 6-speed riding mower (for bigger yards, offering a 42-inch cut) will assuredly bring you riding mower satisfaction. The 6-speed edition also comes in a 16.5- or 18.5-horsepower Briggs and Stratton OHC I/C engine.
Murray's push mowers offer (similar to Honda's brands) a 5.5-horsepower engine with starter. The push models, as mentioned above, have a 15-inch cut and even offer 3-in-1 mulching or side grass blower, along with the possibility to discharge or bag cuttings into a rear bag mechanism (similar to Lawn-Boy's model).
While Consumer Reports magazine seemingly ranks Murray at the top of it's list year in and out, some web postings and user networks complained quite a bit about Murray's use of plastic wheels on their push mowers, belt malfunction and other peculiar fire hazards from different models.
Overall, Murray's mowers are simply built and put together. And, it's hard to say anything against America's toughest engine brand, Briggs and Stratton. It seems, even if the plastic segment of its body falls a part, the engine will just keep chugging along.