“I don’t know what I would do without him,” says one customer. Another relates, “I told my wife that if Winston ever retires, we will have to sell our house.” A third customer remarks, “If you need something, call Winston.”

On August 1-2, 2008, Walker Manufacturing Company hosted the Walker Family Reunion 2 at its facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, to celebrate the production of the 100,000th Walker Mower. Approximately 2,300 guests from around the world were in attendance: guests from 37 states, Canada, 13 countries in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

Darwin Haerer Sr. positions his wheelchair next to his Walker Mower. He places a hinged board between the mower and his chair and slides across it to the mower’s seat. “There,” he says. “I’m ready to mow.”

If only Ralph Anderson had a crystal ball in 1946. At the time this 14-year-old farm boy and his brother were pulling an old reel mower down the road behind a Model A Ford. They were mowing 20 to 40 yards a week for what today would be pocket change.

As a Walker Mower owner, you understand the important difference between value and price. Walker Mowers are not the least expensive mowers on the market. Contractors buy them because they provide superior value. In other words, Walker Mower operators understand the old adage that “you get what you pay for.” The challenge for many mowing contractors is to get their customers to understand the same thing.

He’s known as “Viehmann The Amazing” to people around town who have witnessed his magic act. Still, for most residents of Kennebunkport, Maine, and the surrounding communities, Dan Viehmann and his wife, Melissa, are more readily identified as the landscape contractors who maintain their properties.