Patent attributes
A riding lawn mower comprises, a plurality of front wheels and a plurality of rear wheels; a vehicle body supported by the front wheels and the rear wheels, and supporting a driver's seat; an engine disposed in a rear position of the vehicle body; a hood housing the engine; a mower unit suspendible from the vehicle body; and a grass catcher for collecting grass clippings from the mower unit. The grass catcher includes a left side container portion; a right side container portion; and a center container portion communicating with the left and right side container portions in upper positions of the left and right side container portions, and having a planar bottom. When the grass catcher is in a collecting position, the bottom of the center container portion is located above and along the hood, and at least lower part of each of the left side container portion and the right side container portion is located laterally of the hood, the center container portion, the left side container portion and the right side container portion defining a recessed space extending over an entire fore and aft length thereof for accommodating at least part of the hood.