Electric lawn mowers

Grenage

Hi chaps,


I've used a manual rotary mower for years, but I'm at the point where I have had enough of raking up leaves and twigs after every cut. Are electric mowers any good at hoovering up such greenery?

NigeWick

I've got a 40cm Bosch battery mower. It picks up leaves and small twigs OK. I bought the two battery option and it manages to cut my front and back lawns without running out of charge, one battery each lawn. Yesterday I had to empty the basket twice for each lawn. It's got a roller on the back so leaves nice stripes.

roddydogs

Get youself a petrol mower, self propelled if poss. No comparason with feeble mains or battery ones.

DaftyDuck

roddydogs wrote: »

Get youself a petrol mower, self propelled if poss. No comparason with feeble mains or battery ones.

Pointless if you don't need one. Electric mowers are fine, even for medium sized lawns, they are lighter, cheaper, low maintenance. Petrol has its place, but not needed when the OP has a lawn he can cut by push mower.

That's speaking as someone who cuts his grass with a tractor... and I don't mean a lawn tractor either!

Grenage

Cheers guys, I'll pick up a corded electric. As you've guessed, my lawn isn't that big.

You must have quite the lawn, Daffy!

DaftyDuck

If you can wait for a couple of months (and there will be little grass growing for much of that time), there will be bargains galore in the end of year sales. B&Q and Argos hammer their gardening products to clear space for Halloween or whatever the next carp celebration is.

You probably could pick up one at under half price if not fussy. Pretty much any will do a good job of a small lawn.

This is MSE, after all.

Yes, big lawn, leading onto a sheep farm and water meadows. Need more than a corded lawnmower!

Grenage

I am envious!


Good advice, I shall await the sales in a couple of months.

silverwhistle

I've bought a hedge trimmer and strimmer from Aldi which use the same battery and I note they also have a lawnmower in the same range, so you can just buy the mower if you already have the battery.



My corded tools all ended up with er.. joins, so going battery makes the tool really balanced and easy to handle.

TELLIT01

silverwhistle wrote: »

I've bought a hedge trimmer and strimmer from Aldi which use the same battery and I note they also have a lawnmower in the same range, so you can just buy the mower if you already have the battery.



My corded tools all ended up with er.. joins, so going battery makes the tool really balanced and easy to handle.

A mower or hedgetrimmer will use a lot more power than a strimmer so I hope the common battery is rated to give good running time from the mower. If not you could be stopping to recharge every few minutes.