Lawn Mower Recommendations

[CaptainSlow]

So after just 4 years my rubbish Q&B purchased, Chinese made Mountfield SP474 has packed up. It looks like most their sub £200 models are now Chinese made with the Honda engined models now over £300.

I'm looking for a petrol mower, self propelled if possible, for under £200. Are there any alternatives that will last over 5 years?

[rovermorris999]

I doubt it. Bite the bullet and get a Honda Izy.

[dugsud]

CaptainSlow said:

I'm looking for a petrol mower, self propelled if possible, for under £200. Are there any alternatives that will last over 5 years?

A second hand Honda?

[nobodyknows]

Efco?

[minicab]

If you're quick Honda have a cashback promotion running on their mowers at the minute...

Get yourself down to your nearest friendly Honda Lawn & Garden dealer

[Jasandjules]

Well we got a Hayter but it wasn't £200...........

[peternib]

I just bought a John Deere Mulcher! its an amazing piece of machinery! no collection required but you can buy the collector box if you want to collect... not quite £200 though, im sure you could find a deal on one somewhere.....

Look here! someone flogging a used one on ebay.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

[Manks]

Sorry for the thread HJ but our gardener is becoming unreliable and Mrs Manks has got some of her chums coming over with kids tomorrow so I too need a mower in case we lose any of the little blighters in the shaggy lawn.

I'd guess we have about 0.1 acres of lawn. If we bought a Honda Izy how big do we need? Would this do? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Honda-HRG415PD-16-inch-Whe...

[netherfield]

Depends how long you want to spend mowing, 21" would be better,but then it depends how much money you want to lay out.

[Ed5995]

Possibly the Honda legend is a bit over-stated. Toro seem pretty good and a few local grass cutting businesses use nothing else. Pricey though.

[Tuscanless Ali]

If you are any where near Tolworth, i'm sure I could get my boss to give you a good deal on a Honda

[RedLeicester]

Ed5995 said:

Possibly the Honda legend is a bit over-stated. Toro seem pretty good and a few local grass cutting businesses use nothing else. Pricey though.

Toro make commercial mowers as well as domestic.

[Chrisgr31]

Jasandjules said:

Well we got a Hayter but it wasn't £200...........

I'd recommend Hayter too, but seem to recall ours wasn't £200 either!

[tractorguy]

If you can bump your budget to £260 you can get a Viking (an offshoot of Stihl) mower, I got one not long back and its been a good little worker. I've had Hayters in the past and they've been great, but there a bit dear to buy new these days.

http://www.vikingmowers.co.uk/index.php?mact=Produ...

[RichB]

How things change, I've got a Mountfield, it's 25 years old and stil going strong