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Now that March is nearly here and the lawn mowing season will be with us soon after, I was just wondering, in an absent minded sort of way as I watch the rain pouring down, whether peoples have preferences for their mowers.
My father loved his Atco cylinder mower and I have inherited it. I must admit I do like a neat stripey lawn. But then our workhorse of a rotary makes light work of patches of long grass, especially when I start the mowing. What do you guys think? And do you go for self-propelled or push, or even hover, pull start, ignition or electric.
Wow! Didn't know I knew so much about mowers! Anyway, a fun question - hoping for some fun answers. Unless you take your mowing seriously......................................
December 21st is a great day - the sun starts to come back to us and spring is in the air!
As lightweight as possible for pushing up the hill! lol
We've just got ourselves a cheap set with a lawnmower, strimmer and hedge trimmer from B&Q. The lawn doesn't get mowed much and though it wasn't the lightest option (I think it came 2nd to a Bosch) it will do and if they don't last 5 minutes it's no big loss.
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
The house I am in now is the first where I have needed a mower,in my last house I cut the 'lawn' with the kitchen scissors!!
My first mower was a Flymo rotary hover type (with a bag in a box to collect clippings) as I thought this would be easy to push around as my lawn is an awkward shape so not a lot of straight lines! (I use mowers rather like I would use a vacuum cleaner!)
I found though that this was actually rather heavy to push around and it had the habit of blowing grass all over the place,it actually took me longer to clean up than it did to mow the lawn!!
After a couple of years I had had enough and bought a wheeled rotary mower with a grass box at the back and have found this so much easier.
For the edges etc I had a strimmer for a while but could never quite get used to it so have gone back to old fashioned edging shears.
Rachel
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Hi Pepa
We used to have to replace our mowers fairly frequently until we bought our Honda petrol mower. It's the best mower we have ever had.
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madpenguin said:I use mowers rather like I would use a vacuum cleaner!
Hi Rachel
This made me laugh as it reminded me of the Michael Macintyre joke about the different ways people use vacuum cleaners. :-))
Hi Chris. I must have missed that one! Can you remind us?
hand push cylinders are great for relatively small lawns but the big downside is that in damp conditions they can skid across the lawn & scar it. we have an electric rotary which is ok but if i had the money i'd buy an electric or even petrol cylinder. The scissor action of a cylinder gives a much cleaner cut than a rotary blade, which can leave the ends ragged which then brown quickly in dry conditions. One tip for a rotary is to replace the blade every year