On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 05:48:38 +0000, lawn_newbi wrote:
sniped

My questions a

1) The Gardena's electric motor means that you personally don't have to
manually supply the energy needed to spin the cutting blades. Does that
make a noticeable/significant difference in the work needed to push the
mower?

2) The Scotts Classic is five inches wider than the Gardena. Which factor
saves more time mowing the lawn, the extra width of the Scotts or the
electric motor of the Gardena?

3) Is the extra cutting height of the Scotts, 3" vs the Gardena's 1 3/4",
a decisive factor?

I discovered something about scotts mowers that I think you might want to
know....
Scotts does NOT manufacture lawn mowers. Yes I know that's the name on the
machine, but from what I can gather they lease out the product name. I
found this out the hard way yesterday. I own a scotts that I bought from
the home depo a year ago. The front drive wheel broke and I went to by
another one. After searching my whole county for this stupid wheel and
after calling scotts to find the scotts dealer near me, the scotts dealer
told me my scotts mower is really a Murry!!! Worse than that, it was 4
years old when I bought it new? Home depo must of warehoused a bunch of
them. The local scotts dealer told me that he could only service the
scotts made by john deere and that he is unable to order my wheel.
So I guess my point is this.... You can't trust the scotts name on
the machine. Nor will I trust any of the 'box stores' for any of my
equiptment. I suggest that you get the model number off of the scotts and
call a scotts dealer to see who really made it before you decide.
As far as gardena's go... I have 2 customers who own the non-electric
reels who are completly happy with them. I personally believe that you
should try to purchase the best you can affort and in this case my opinion
is Gardena....
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