Is a lawn mower with 5" wheels in front and 6" wheels in back harder to push across the lawn than the same mower with 6" wheels in front and 7" wheels in back?

Is it self propelled? If not then I’d say the larger wheels would be easier to push.

NOT self propelled.

@Dutchess_III Why?

I…don’t know @kritiper. I just feel like they would be. I’ll ask my live in mechanic when he gets up.

I have never seen a lawnmower with more than 4 wheels.

@ragingloli that was my knee jerk reaction. 6 wheels on the front and 7 on the back??!! Then I read the question more carefully.

mine was a representation of my rejection of your units of measurement.

How low is the cutting blade set for? That’s the controlling factor.

“harder to push” needs some refining. The bigger wheels should mean that less effort is required to move the platform over an irregular surface. The case is best illustrated through the size of the wheels on such things as bicycles and horse drawn carts, buckboards etc. But it is the function of the lawnmower that restricts the size of the wheels. If the mower proceeds too quickly, there isn’t sufficient time for the blades to slice the grass in its path. Pushing the mower over the sidewalk is a different matter than propelling the thing through an unmown lawn.

@elbanditoroso The cutting blade was the same height as last week (normal cutting interval) when I mowed with the smaller wheels.

@ragingloli So, six of one, a half dozen of the other? Centimeters or inches, the grass will only grow so much in one week.

I confronted this very problem when I upgraded the wheels on my mower.

Unfortunately, several toes went under the right hand side back passenger wheel and were completely sheared off.

The big toe, which had not been clipped for some time, flew up at an angle that the doctor’s believe was close to 78 degrees and took out my left eye.

It was only later that I learnt about the rule of 78 and the sum of the digits.