Reply to: Time to treat myself...

[zoco]

Prince Harry's Peter Heater

Interesting stuff

Where have you been all this time?

I do a cricket field in the summer - Land rover towed gang mower for the outfield and a big Ransomes cylinder job for the wicket.

[zoco]

I do actually quite like it, though it was really a case of finding the cheapest available. I was pleased you could still buy these old-fashioned ones.

Does that one make that whirring noise on the backstroke?

[d000hg]

I do actually quite like it, though it was really a case of finding the cheapest available. I was pleased you could still buy these old-fashioned ones.

[Scruff]

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

That my friend is truly and excellent choice. The totally analog design is unbeatable.

[Scruff]

That's what MF would use.

[AtW]

[d000hg]

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

[Scruff]

I know I am going to be thought "weird"....

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

[greenlake]

Mow the lawn and train for the L2B at the same time....

[aoxomoxoa]

Hayter 48

Mine is 19 years old and still works a treat - I bought it new for about £600. I get it serviced every 4 years or so, costs about £100. Recommended.

[Halo Jones]

Maybe you should get a sit-on mower.

I'm always telling OH that if he wants me to mow the lawn, that's what he'll have to get.

Don't think the size of our lawn would justify it though.

Ditto - cheaper & easier to pave

[Gittins Gal]

I am currently waiting for the quote to pave all the grass to come back then I will have a ceremonial burning of the mower …I hate mowing grass

Maybe you should get a sit-on mower.

I'm always telling OH that if he wants me to mow the lawn, that's what he'll have to get.

Don't think the size of our lawn would justify it though.

[Halo Jones]

I am currently waiting for the quote to pave all the grass to come back then I will have a ceremonial burning of the mower …I hate mowing grass

[zoco]

My old lawn mowers never go to waste:

[SunnyInHades]

John Deere X758 4wd Diesel Lawn Tractor + 60" Cutting Width Auto Connect Deck

Approx £16k

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