Resources for Cleaning Up Outside

Ready, Set, Mow!
Briggs & Stratton Corporation's new Ready Start engine features a new design for the starter and carburetor that promises easy, hassle-free starting. No more choking or priming the mower’s engine. The Fresh Start gas cap keeps gas fresher for better starts.

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Ready Start System for Lawn Mowers: Briggs & Stratton Corporation
Web site: www.briggsandstratton.com

Landscaper’s Push Broom
Quickie Manufacturing's innovative 2-in-1 garden tool doubles as a heavy-duty push broom and an aluminum rake. Designed to hold up against multiple surfaces, it’s ideal for spreading, sweeping or raking mulch, leaves or debris. This unique combination of broom and rake makes it the perfect garden tool for flowerbeds, driveways, walkways, patios and landscape stones.

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Landscaper’s Push Broom: Quickie Manufacturing Corporation
Web site: www.quickie.com

Chip, Shred and Vacuum Your Lawn
The Backyard Chipper is a three-in-one yard clean-up machine. The electric-powered machine will turn branches of up to 2-1/2 inches in diameter into chips ideal for mulching. It also shreds leaves and garden plants into composting material. The optional hose kit is great for picking-up leaves around the house and yard. The lightweight unit is easily moved around to handle jobs and clean-up is easy.

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Backyard Chipper: Patriot Products Inc.
Web site: www.patriot-products-inc.com

Perfect Plantings
The Dirt Snatcher is a spring-loaded gadget that simultaneously digs a planting hole and removes the dirt in one fell swoop. To plant bulbs or nursery plants, simply stab the tool into your planting bed soil, squeeze the three-fingered pulley to lift out the dirt and you've got a perfect planting hole.

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The Dirt Snatcher: Ruppert Garden Tools, Inc.
Web site: www.dirtsnatcher.com