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Frank, I think the mower you are tlaking about is not a ZTR, but a "walk-behind" mower equipped with something called a sulky, basically a VERY tiny chariot if you will, with just enough room for a pair of feet.
The reasons are many and varied for using this type of mower, which is basically a 2-wheeled lawn tractor, but you walk along behind it, like you would a self-propelled snowblower. Usually they are used on smaller areas, but often, especially nowadays, you see them because they are cheaper than a conventional riding commercial mower. A walk-behind is nearly half the price of a rider.
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I forgot to mention the other big consideration for situations such as you describe where you are cutting grass in an urban (big city) environment.
A walk-behind mower is about half the length of a commercial rider, in fact you can easily put 2 of them in the back of a standard 8' long pickup equipped with a ramp or tailgate lift. This means you could send a crew into an area like a big city without even having to try to fight a trailer through traffic or find a place to park it.
In the Toronto area I see a lot of commercial outfits have gone to cube vans, and not for just that reason, they are also rolling billboards and offer far better security for the valueable equipment that is all too portable to thieves.
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It might take more than the likes of me to set you straight there Jeff'ry........
But I'm jiss sayin's all ....... 
It's called 'striping' and is done, oddly enough, with a striping kit. A fancy name and more than a few bucks for a little piece of steel that drags along behind the mower.
If you look carefully at my picture # 1 you will see the front lawn is done that way. It gets cut twice a week, and every time the pattern changes. I need another hobby. 
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I could see dragging him around back of the wood shed to straighten him out.........
But dragging him around the lawn would probably not work.
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Frank, corners are no problem at all.
They are handled one of two ways, some sulkys (the better ones) are spring loaded and have elbows in the towbar, as soon as you step off of them the spring lifts and folds the sulky up against the mowers body, at which point you merely revert to a walk-behind mower. The tip of one toe is enough to overcome the spring and convert it back to a stand-up machine.
The simpler way though is to not cut tight into the corners and just use a 19" commercial push mower to cut those areas.
BTW, these mowers can really eat up a lot of turf in a hurry. The bigger ones like the Ferris we have is powered by a 25hp V-twin engine with twin hydrostatic transmissions (one per wheel) and can (in the real world) cut 3 acres per hour!! There is nothing like them for cutting hillsides and some special situations like that.
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Jeff, I just re-read this thread and finally noticed your comment.
What walk-behinds don't reverse, our Ferris units do, and I know the Toro units we used to have did as well?
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Thanks for the kind words Frank.
I'm real good at getting grass to grow, just don't blame me for the cutting time that results, or ask me to cut it, I've got enough of my own to deal with already!
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