Get a 4s petrol Nonda. Mowing is then not a chore... Only surpassed by the bigger boys garden toy; the ride on.
Nondas hold their value well so if you choose to gravel over or move to a flat, you'll get a lot of your money back. Albeit, you'll have to put more into it in the first place. But you can't spend too much on boys toys can you?
+ whatever we're up to for getting a Honda Izy. Fantastic mowers.
+ whatever we're up to for getting a Honda Izy
Agreed
I've got a medium size hilly garden. The Honda makes short work of it.
And because it's petrol I can easily cut the verges in the street that the council only cut once a year.
How many have a [url= http://www.mulching.co.uk/ ]mulching[/url] mower?
Been a great time saver for me, also means I can cut the elderly neighbours gardens & verges that the council claim aren't theirs without bother.
mispent youth paying for bike bits before moved into the bike industry was paid for by mowing lawns for a company ....
had a honda for stripes and a kawasaki for big lawns(used to cut one lawn for a whole day thats how big it was but we werent allowed to use the ride on) and a hayter for the manse all expensive bits of kit all made the job easy as hell - also used a flymo on a rope for bankings
parents got a mountfield for their lawn -i used it once and said - just get a flymo will you ... mountfield are not worth the cheese they are made out of !
was pathetically underpowered for a self propelled machine and the wheels were barely held on and the thing got loads lower as the axle bent as the box loaded up ! give me a fly mo any day for general average lawns on a budget.
Hmmm, they seem ok to me, but them I'm no professional 😳
Anyway, [url= http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/petrol-multiclip-lawnmower-/250832168760?_trksid=p4012.m506&_trkparms=algo%3DNGRI%26its%3DI%26itu%3DUA%26otn%3D12%26pmod%3D250832603978%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D463226990140203137#ht_500wt_904 ]this[/url] looks like it will go for a song if your local enough to collect 🙂
Cheers.
my dads mower is a hayter harrier 2:
http://www.vintagemowers.net/hayter.html
apparently a vintage mower!
but unlike that one, his has had maintenence where required. the red engine went in the late 90s, and it has a nice new (well it was in the late 90s) briggs and stratton 5hp engine.
remember it getting a new blade too once upon a time.
and a new throttle assembly
and a new clutch assembly too (though that needed looking at last time i used it)
its monstrously heavy, and therefore give killer stripes.
I go for petrol ones because I can fix them. Can't think of using anything made in the last 20 years being 2-stroke. Got my current Honda off ebay for a tenner.
Petrol also means I don't need 200m of cable.
I find a petrol lawnmower much more advantageous and indeed beneficial in my social hierarchy of non petrol lawnmower owning friends, neighbours and work colleagues. thumbs up 😀
It also cuts grass.
Petrol also means I don't need 200m of cable.
This thread has turned into a boasting about the size of your garden thread.
Obviously if I want to cut to the far end of the garden I need to carry a spare fuel can.
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