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I have 12 Mowers and 2 Lawn Tractors (well, 1 of them is going to be go-karted).
1 Electric Flymo - pile of poo which is only good for tiny lawns needing a rough cut.
1 Mountfield 35 Rotary petrol - ditto
1 Masport Rotarola Rotary petrol with rear roller and aluminium deck - great allround rough cut
1 x 20" ATCO De Luxe petrol (mid-60's) - classic cylinder mower
4 x 17" Suffolk Punch petrol (2 are QX) - the older ones are much better than the new
1 x 17" Atco Electric cylinder - too heavy for anything but a flat lawn
1 x 14" Atco Ensign petrol cylinder - the best allrounder
1 x 14" Suffolk Super Colt (early 1960's) petrol cylinder - the best by far, insofar as cut and control is concerned, but a bit loud
1 x 14" Suffolk Colt (early 1960's) petrol cylinder - a great drive, but has 2 clutches, one manual dog clutch, the other centrifugal. Brilliant in every respect, but for the fact that it runs away with you!
I buy them in poor states and recon. the engines, carbs and electrics.
My only advice is that you buy a Honda, if you are going to buy a rotary. If you are going to buy a cylinder mower, petrol not electric. It is better to spend £100 on a 2nd hand cylinder than £200 on a cheap rotary, if you don't mow sticks and stones (they do not like hard objects in their cylinders) and you aren't on steep slopes.
Have a look here about ridding your lawn of the crab-grass...
If you want proper stripes, only a cylinder will do.
Anally retentively yours.
Scruff the Meshugeneh
Last edited by Scruff; 11 February 2014, 21:29.
Reason: My spelling tonight is unaffected by wine, but by traffic exhaustion...
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A grand for a regular push-mower?! I'm curious, what do you get for that money above a standard £200 (I'm guessing) kind of model? I mean a ride-on mower I can see is a lot more kit, and they get bigger and bigger and faster and faster as you spend more but this looks just like what dad used to decimate the bit of lawn which grew 3' high in weeds every summer.
This is my pride and joy, but we live in the city-centre and have a lawn about 4m x 4m which takes a minute to mow
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