Yard Machine begins in 1975. That’s not when the company was founded but when it was purchased by MTD (Machine Tool & Die Company).
This successful Cleveland, Ohio based company had started buying up great product lines that were floundering on their own and helped revitalize them. In this case, Yard Machine had been a brand name sold through Montgomery Ward.

If you’re not familiar with Montgomery Ward, you’re probably not alone. The company started as a dry goods mail order business in Chicago.

The company’s namesake had been a traveling salesman and had decided this would be a better alternative for rural people who didn’t have easy access to the same products available in the city. Unfortunately, much of Ward’s inventory was destroying during the Great Chicago Fire so he got off to a show start but by 1872 had released the first catalog.

Although initially successful, Sears took a portion of their catalog business around the turn of the 20th century.
Yard Machine lawn mower has one of the most impressive collections of walk behind mowers available in today’s industry. Many of the companies have switched their focus to lawn tractors and have abandoned the more traditional method of cutting the lawn looking gorgeous.

More than ten models are currently available through a wide-range of retailers so there is at least one push mower to meet the needs of almost everyone with a lawn to mow.

The models produced by Yard Machine all come with one of two types of engines: the MTD OHV (produced by the parent company) or the Briggs & Stratton Quattro. You can also find three types of starting systems in the Yard Machine models: the old-fashioned recoil method, the no prime, and the auto-choke.