Moundridge, Kansas The Grasshopper Company is headquartered in Moundridge, Kansas, United States. The company manufactures commercial & residential mowers, snow removal equipment, and ground care equipment.

The Grasshopper Company division of Moridge Manufacturing has built a worldwide reputation with zero- turn radius mowers and grounds maintenance equipment.

A family-owned business with more than 60 years of manufacturing experience, The Grasshopper Company has specialized in manufacturing True ZeroTurn™ riding rotary mowers since 1969.

In the beginning... Claussen Equipment has sold Woods products as a major equipment line for a very long time because of their simplistic design and quality. It's no surprise woods contracted such a similar company, Grasshopper, to make mowers for them.

1969 When company engineers designed our first Grasshopper mower in 1969, they envisioned a low maintenance, highly maneuverable mower tough enough to serve the commercial mowing industry. They delivered one that would transform the industry in the years to come.

1969 Since its founding in 1958 and the launch of the Grasshopper zero-turn mower in 1969, Moridge Manufacturing has been dedicated to the community of Moundridge, the surrounding region and the State of Kansas.

As Grasshopper Manufacture hit 25 years of operations, CEO Goichi "Suda 51" Suda insists to GamesIndustry.biz that the studio's motto of 'Punk's not dead,' a message that its creative works will shock and or stimulate people is "still alive and kicking."

Every Grasshopper mower is designed, engineered, manufactured, assembled and tested by a skilled and dedicated workforce of more than 280 highly trained employees at a 350,000-sq-ft facility in Moundridge, Kansas.

Mowing speeds up to 8.0 MPH and 4.44 acres/hr.

Grasshoppers are medium to large insects. Adult length is 1 to 7 cm, depending on the species. Like their relatives the katydids and crickets, they have chewing mouthparts, two pairs of wings, one narrow and tough, the other wide and flexible, and long hind legs for jumping.

They discovered that grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) hail not from Africa, as commonly thought, but from South America, where they arose 59 million years ago. Over tens of millions of years, grasshoppers migrated, likely by flight, to colonize the continents.

1830 1830: The first lawn mower was invented and patented in 1830 by Edwin Budding outside Gloucestershire, England. This first mower was primarily designed to cut grass on sports grounds, cemeteries, and extensive gardens.