On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:46:01 +0000, rbel wrote:

On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:57:11 -0000, "RiversideRed"
wrote:

Hi, has anyone had experience of battery powered rotary mowers.
My father inlaw wants to stay independent and has trouble starting
conventional petrol mowers,
His lawn is around 20mtrs by 10mtrs and not fast growing he prefers just to
top it weekly.
One option would an electric start petrol mower but the price would be out
of reach.
Any advice welcome.

IIRC there was a thread earlier this year covering this subject and,
whilst cordless mowers in general were not favoured by contributors,
the Bosch Rotak range,
We have one of those and have been abusing it today on leaves and wet
straggly grass but I don't have that much lawn.
I'm useless at working out areas but if it a reasonably tidy lawn I
think it would cope on one charge unless the grass is really long or
wet. The battery is a Lithium Ion type and stores a reasonably amount
of energy. The rub is though that makes it expensive and a lot more
than the corded version.back in a minute ----- Tap tap tap,--- Yep
about £150+ more and almost into new petrol self start Honda
territory.
Another thing to consider is in my opinion someone with elderly
possibly arthritic fingers may find inserting the battery and then the
locking clamp and safety switch a little awkward. If you do proceed
see if he can do it before purchase.
A cordless is one of those things you can't buy cheap or it will be
useless.
I justified mine because we have diesel car and don't want a can of
petrol laying about,detest the noise of mowers and had already rigged
up a solar panel for a pond pump, it now also charges the mower in
it's own small hutch.
Which reminds me, if you are short of space the handles can be folded
easily but that would apply to the mains one as well.

G.Harman