Cordless lawn mowers?

WeAreGhosts

We have the Gtech cordless mower. It works fine, but be aware that we find it quite heavy and unwieldy. If you've got some muscles, you'll be ok, but if not I'd look at others and buy from where you can move them around before you purchase.

As for petrol. My nearest neighbour has one and I could strangle him by the time he's finished. It takes foreeeeever, makes a hell of a racket and stinks.

AnotherJoe

Ok I was going to get a different model I found on Screwfix but happened to see a one day sale on Amazon on a Bosch, £400 down to £260 just for today. Arrives Tuesday.

NigeWick

AnotherJoe wrote: »

My current bosch rotak (corded) has been generally good,

I went for the battery Bosch 40 and have been pleased with it after a corded one. I made sure to have two batteries as I have two bits of lawn. It isn't quite as forgiving of longer wet grass as the corded but as long as you are aware of that limitation it is fine.

anotheruser

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Ok I was going to get a different model I found on Screwfix but happened to see a one day sale on Amazon on a Bosch, £400 down to £260 just for today. Arrives Tuesday.

What model / link?

Frank99

Been looking at cordless myself as with vacuums everything is heading this way, Ideal World TV seems to have regular features on cordless mowers and they reduce the prices whilst the item is on air.

nickcc

Bought the Worx WG779E battery lawnmower last year from Amazon for £190 now £182. Great mower and no more cutting cables also much quicker as no faffing about with extension leads. Has two batteries that fit side by side and are used together so sufficient to cut two fairly large lawns as long as the grass isn't too long and you use the economy setting. Comes with twin charger so both batteries are charged together but you can charge individually if you wanted to, not sure why you'd want to though.

PS also bought a Shark cordless vacuum as I was fed up tripping over the flipping cable.

buglawton

I have a Bosch Rotak 43, chosen because you can get a mulcher for it and it shares battery type and charger with my Bosch hedge trimmer. 2.6 AH battery not really adequate, now in the market for a 4 AH replacement.

Very happy with it. If I've one niggle it's having to grip the levers hard to keep it running, unlike the old dead mans handle lever you get with petrol or corded.

cranford

Last year because of back problems I also bought a WORX as mentioned above. Argos do a mower + strimmer package for £200 so with the strimmer being about £50 by itsself its not a bad deal. The model is not quite the same as the £182 one from Amazon mentioned above. When the grass is long realistically it will only do about 50sq metres on a single charge of the twin 20w batteries but once this cut is done it will run for twice that amount. Its very light weight and this takes me less than 10 mins. I have two lawns that size so I have bought a second set of batteries on Ebay for about £60. I am impressed with the strimmer which is a tap down one and have yet had a line break.
(I also have a WORX drill so can use the batteries in this as well)

SleepySara

WORX is a great option indeed, I have a WORX lawn trencher and I really like it. How about EGO Power lm2000? I'm thinking about getting something like this because I have a big lawn now. But after reading it's manual online I started to think it might be an overkill for my needs, though I definitely need both a lawnmower and a trimmer.

The_Biff

Do any of the battery mowers have powered wheels as I have a slope on my lawn which is quite hard to get up without the self drive feature?