On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 21:35:13 +0200, "xavier"
wrote:

Hi,

I am French (living in France, about 75 miles north of Paris). I came to
realise that cylinder mowers did a much better job when it came to cutting
the lawn.

The trouble is that on my side of the Channel, garden stores rarely sell
cylinder mowers (when they do, these mowers are too small for what I need).

I was wondering if anybody could tell me what acreage we are talking about
when one wants to use a cylinder mower (not a ride-on mower, my garden is
not big enough for that - roughly 1500 sq meters).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Xavier

Are you looking in the right places? Good cylinder mowers are rarely
found in the usual DIY and gardening outlets here as in France. You
need to find true garden machinery dealers who deal with professional
gardeners, sports grounds and commercial grounds care people. There is
no limit on size. Typical domestic machines start from around 40cms
and go up to about 90cm. Commercial machines are more ruggedly built,
and priced accordingly from about 60cm to 1 metre, then there are
large machines with multiple cutting units. For your purpose look at
something like Atco http://www.atco.co.uk/ for a reasonable quality
domestic machine. The Atco Balmoral at 41cm or 53cm would do a good
job for you (We have been using one here for some years - and they do
last a long while in domestic service). This is just one manufacturer
- there are several more.

Rod

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