The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Gardens => Topic started by: Richmond on April 27, 2022, 10:13:25 am
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Does anybody here have one? Can you recommend them?
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A friend of mine has a small one from Lidl. Cuts his lawn really well and three times before it needs recharging. But his lawn is only 30m2, so that's not a lot from one charge. Guess their longevity will vary quite a lot between brands, as will the power output so the type/ length of grass they will cope with.
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I have the WORX strimmer and lawnmower. They do a reasonable job. Battery power quite good in not too long grass, but cant cope with longer than about 4 inches
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Thanks both. We have always had petrol mowers (walk behind for the garden and ride on for the rougher areas) but ours are on their last legs and in the course of researching replacements spoke to a salesman who was singing the praises of battery powered ones.
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Divide salesman's claims by 10 and you won't go far wrong.
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Agree! We're going to look at some on Saturday. Not 100% sure they will be up to the task of our grass but keeping an open mind.
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We took the plunge about 2 months ago and bought an EGO. We got the self propelled 42cm mower as it is for several small areas. We are absolutely delighted with it. It is so quiet we don't even need to wear ear defenders. It is light and manoeuvrable. It is easy and intuitive to start, comfortable to use and does an excellent cutting job. The height adjustment is easy (although it's all 4 wheels together - they are not individually adjustable) and the collecting bag is superb. I don't know what they've done to the chute, but the deck remains clean and the chute has never once blocked up. The bag fills perfectly and even though I'm lazy and don't empty it enough, I have not once had any overflow or clumps left on the lawn. I am surprised as I have used it on overlong (did have the mower set high initially) and wet grass and our previous petrol mower would have blocked numerous times in that situation. It collects debris well, but only on its lower settings. It does everything we ask it to do, and we do ask it to work hard. The battery life is very good - I'll try and make a point of noticing how long it does last - but it is possible to upscale the battery. I hope this helps.
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That is fabulous - thank you!
Husband tells me it is an EGO we are going to look at (among others) tomorrow so I'm quite excited now :)
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Think we're going for the EGO. Seems to tick all the boxes for us. Earliest we can get one is midweek though but that's fine, it means I don't need to spend today mowing :)
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Funnily enough, I bet you will find it hard to hold back when the EGO arrives! I'm the grass cutter in our house and it was something that was always a bit of a chore. It still isn't my most fun activity but it is most certainly easier to face now! I hope you like yours when it comes :) .
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Funnily enough, I bet you will find it hard to hold back when the EGO arrives! I'm the grass cutter in our house and it was something that was always a bit of a chore. It still isn't my most fun activity but it is most certainly easier to face now! I hope you like yours when it comes :) .
Thanks FCA - I will report back :)
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Well I just checked the model which would be equivalent to our current petrol driven model... and no I do no have 850 quid to spend on a lawnmower... And the whole thing is made out of plastic!
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It's pretty durable plastic. Yes it is a lot to spend on a mower but there will be no service costs -necessary for petrol mowers if you want to preserve the warranty. If we bought another petrol mower we calculated that in 5 years we would have spent the same amount of money paying for a yearly service as it cost to buy one, essentially buying it twice! Our mowers get a lot of use and we try and look after them. This new mower will replace our John Deere which is now 26 years old and still working - just. It's been around longer than my children!
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We've splashed out the ridiculous sum of €150 (delivered) and bought a tiny battery mower to cut the pathways in the veg plot. A nearly all plastic 'kiddies toy' (said one of the reviews) which has a 30cm cut and a maximum area on one charge of 150m2. Einhell is the make. Our friends have one and rate it, even though the on/off switch has broken, there are no spare parts available and so he has to operate it with one handle from a pair of pliers! It's hard work at the moment with our small walk behind petrol mower which, with a 42cm cut is really too big. The veg plot is the only job for it at the moment because the chicken enclosures are out of its range and we didn't want to splash out €50 on a second battery.
We've seen the prices of better quality battery mowers and our budget won't stretch to them.
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My Worx one was about the same price a couple of years ago and I use it for the same purpose.
Sometimes I need to use the strimmer to chop longish grass first and it was also about that price. Both use teh same batteries - one for the trimmer and two for the mower. They both work very well
I just bought a screwdriver (Guild) which uses the same type of battery and it was about £30.
All do exactly what I need them to
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Our little Einhell has arrived in two parts- the battery and charger from Germany and the mower from Spain. Makes sense because the same battery is used on their whole range of garden tools. The battery charged in the time specified of 75 minutes for the 18V 4.0Ah. Easy to assemble, first impressions are for €101 it's very well designed and constructed. My it is little- it has a carrying handle on top! The three cutting heights have to be set by turning it upside down and moving the axels. It isn't self drive, but having tested it on some longer grass, about 10cm with a cut height set of 5cm, it works well. See how it gets on with the job it was bought for, which was cutting the footpaths in the veg plot- too hot at the moment.
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We are still "testing" ours - we were given 30 days to decide whether or not we wanted it. If not we can return and be fully refunded.
So far so good. Lightweight and easy to use and even with our extensive "lawn" areas I can swap over the batteries to charge when one runs out and never be at a stage where I am waiting for one to finish recharging.
The only grouch atm is that it appears the side discharge chute kit is not available in the UK, which we were not made aware of when purchasing, although we have been offered a free mulching kit instead.
In all honesty it probably isn't going to last as long as our John Deere has, but hopefully will be with us for a fair while.