Patent ID: 8615975

Claim:
A lawn mower with an integral chipper or shredder, comprising: a deck, a front wheel set and a rear wheel set located at the front and the rear of the deck respectively, a motor attached to the outside top of the platform of the deck, having a drive shaft extending downwards through the deck, the lower part of the drive shaft located substantially at the centre of the cutting space, at least one grass cutting blade or blades, and at least one chipper or shredder blade or blades connected to the drive shaft within the cutting space so that the drive shaft causes the at least one grass cutting blade to rotate in a substantially horizontal grass cutting plane and the at least one chipper blade to rotate in a substantially horizontal chipping plane, a chipper tube having an upper end and a lower end, the lower end opening into the cutting space above and within the perimeter of the cutting disc formed by rotation of the at least one chipper blade in use, the chipper tube having an integral spring-loaded lid which is biased towards the closed position, the lid fitted with a catch which operates when the mower is set to a ride height setting above a predetermined threshold, to lock the lid in a closed position.