On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:53:40 -0600, Pennyaline
wrote:

paghat wrote:
I briefly owned an electric mower and it was worthless. I forget the
brand. But for rough ground or areas of long grass I think all are likely
to be equally worthless. For a dinnertable sized lawn kept perfectly
manicured at all times an electric would probably do.

The cord was an impossible nuisance as well. You WILL eventually run over
it and sparks will fly. I never used one with a rechargeable battery pack,
though. That'd be essential before I ever even samples the use of one
again, as the cord has GOT to not be there.

-paghat the ratgirl


Thanks for the vote of confidence, everyone. Of course your experience
will be my experience too.

Meanwhile, I'll be off doing what I have to do. These are the
compromises I make to keep going. I hope when it's your turn, you get as
much support as you've given here.

Some good old friends of mine had an electric Black & Decker
mower I used when their lawn needed mowing and I was
watching the house. It did an okay job, typical subdivision
property/lot. You need to start mowing close to where the
cord comes from. Then you go back & forth moving away from
the cord source so it is laying on what has already been
mowed. This particular mower had what I'll call a flopper
bar that held the cord off to the side a bit. Each time you
reached the end you turned and flopped the bar & cord to the
other side. A bit of an extra fling on the cord was helpful.
Later models had the handles centrally mounted and you just
flopped the whole handlebar assembly over, never turning the
mower around. Just go to what was the front of the mower and
push in the opposite direction. Using a bagger with it was
really annoying, putting up with the cord was tolerable
without bagging too.

Learning how to best mow with a trailing power cord will be
your most difficult chore. Usually they come with good
directions for this, read and follow them. Once you get the
hang of that you'll be okay

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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