Abertech wrote:

Hi,

I've moved to a place with a lawn of about 20 x 15 feet and another
smaller lawn elsewhere. I think thats too much for my cordless
strimmer to cope with so I'm looking at getting a lawnmower.

I was thinking of picking up a cheap hand powered cylinder mower from
Argos. The lawn is flat but far from immaculate, having a couple of
weeds, bumps and occassional twigs etc in amongst the grass. Would a
hand powered mower be ok for this or are they meant for immaculately
kept lawns?

I've had a hover mower in the past but I like the idea of no power
cables, simplicity etc.

TIA.

Focus doing a small electric lawn-mower in the Champion range for under
£100 and you can rely on them for replacement blades in years to come.
This is what we have used on a much larger set of lawns with all sorts
of sloping parts. I thought the handle wouldn't stand up to the strain
placed upon it and the plastic chassis while doing sloping parts but it
has behaved extremely well and is still going strong. If your lawns are
flat then the cable shouldn't prove too much of an annoyance -
particularly if you can get someone else to manipulate it while you just
go up and down with the mower :-).

Eddy.