We have a Clarke electric 8 tonne, upright, really pleased with it.... Except we had a capacitor blow which was a devil for us to get fixed... Did get it done under guarantee in the end. Could just be unlucky, or could be a weakness.... Buy off a local dealer would be my advice, if we had bought off internet, we would have been stuffed. It was around £400 I think. We split about 8 tonnes a year so it gets a fair hammering.