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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
We have a small London back garden with about 40 minutes worth
of grass to cut. We want to do it ourselves as long as we can. The Flymo is becoming too hard for us to manage. Is there such a thing as a small electric self propelled lawn mower? If so where would they be sold? MTIA Doddles |
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
"Doddles" wrote in message news We have a small London back garden with about 40 minutes worth of grass to cut. We want to do it ourselves as long as we can. The Flymo is becoming too hard for us to manage. Is there such a thing as a small electric self propelled lawn mower? If so where would they be sold? MTIA Doddles Why not try one of those fully automatic "Electric Sheep" So long as your patch is reasonable flat they just go out and get on with it, solar powered so no wire etc. I have always fancied one but my garden is too steep. -- Charlie, gardening in Cornwall. http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs) |
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:42:29 GMT, "Doddles"
wrote: We have a small London back garden with about 40 minutes worth of grass to cut. We want to do it ourselves as long as we can. The Flymo is becoming too hard for us to manage. Is there such a thing as a small electric self propelled lawn mower? If so where would they be sold? MTIA Doddles As we both work at quite demanding jobs, and now have a medium sized garden with a large area set to lawn and neither of us wants to mow it regularly enough to keep it in good nick, we have invested in a Robomow. Fantastic little thing. You lay a green wire circuit round the edge of the lawn which connects to a small battery operated circuit maker - you only have to do this once and after a short time the wire disappears into the grass and is invisible. You drive out the mower with a little remote pad set in the top, turn it on and off it goes. You won't get the nice lawn stripes, but you do get all that time to go off and do something more fun instead. It cuts well, you can adjust the height, it tripple cuts the clippings so there's no raking afterwards. I was a tad dubious in the first place thinking it would be a technology that just wouldn't live up to the promises, but it has, and I thoroughly recommend it. They're still not cheap but are coming down in price all the time. http://www.allenpower.com/ is the seller, their website will give you your local stockist. (I'm not in anyway related to this company, just bought the product), "The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works." - William Strong subbykins{Chrd} |
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
40 minutes worth of grass to cut.
-- Well that's a different measure of a lawn. Mine used to take around 3 to 4 hours to cut with a 20" cut, now have a 1.15m cutter bar and cut a bigger area in 45 mins. Have you thought of a small petrol mower a lot cheaper and easier to find than a rechargeable electric mower. Rechargeable/cordless electric are available but are expensive and don't have a very long cutting time against a longish charging time. David Hill Abacus Nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
"Doddles" wrote in
news We have a small London back garden with about 40 minutes worth of grass to cut. We want to do it ourselves as long as we can. The Flymo is becoming too hard for us to manage. Is there such a thing as a small electric self propelled lawn mower? If so where would they be sold? I looked for a rotary one of these for ages this spring, but no luck. There was, I seem to recall, a small electric powered cylinder mower available at the time - they had them in Homebase, so probably fairly widely available, though I tried lifting one, and the extra motor did make them relatively heavy. In the end I got a small Qualcast Easytrak 32 instead (wheels, but not powered). Found it was much, much easier to push than my horrible old Flymo - you might want to try a garden machinery shop or something and see how heavy you find these small unpowered machines, if the automated systems aren't suitable. I wanted one because I have very sloping lawns and steps to lug the mower up and down, so wanted one I could lift with one hand and require no effort to push - the one I bought fulfils the first criterion, and almost the second one. -- Victoria Clare gardening high up in South East Cornwall http://www.clareassoc.co.uk/ -- |
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
Victoria Clare wrote in
.207: In the end I got a small Qualcast Easytrak 32 instead (wheels, but not powered). Found it was much, much easier to push than my horrible old Flymo - you might want to try a garden machinery shop or something and see how heavy you find these small unpowered machines, if the automated systems aren't suitable. Oops, meant to correct this to make it clear this is an electric mower, but not selfpropelled. |
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
Very many thanks for all the replies. Doddles
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Need electric self propelled lawnmower
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:01:52 +0000, Victoria Clare wrote:
In the end I got a small Qualcast Easytrak 32 instead (wheels, but not powered). Found it was much, much easier to push than my horrible old Flymo - you might want to try a garden machinery shop or something and see I must second Victoria's findings here. An electric rotary lawnmower on wheels is *far* easier to cope with than a hover electric rotary lawnmower. There's no strain on the back or side muscles as you swing the thing round - mainly because you have to push the lawnmower instead! I've just upgraded to a petrol rotary simply due to a much larger quantity of grass to mow due to moving house. Regards, Sarah |
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