What electric mower?

[Wildfire]

As per title, we moved to a house last year and have made do with an ancient Flymo, donated to us. It's awful and now I actually want to take some price in my lawn a decent mower is a must.

The lawn isn't too big, sub 100m2 and I have external power, so a corded electric one will be fine. All the "Best Mower" guides have something different.

I'd like a leaf collector function and a roller and for it to last.

[PositronicRay]

Wildfire said:

As per title, we moved to a house last year and have made do with an ancient Flymo, donated to us. It's awful and now I actually want to take some price in my lawn a decent mower is a must.

The lawn isn't too big, sub 100m2 and I have external power, so a corded electric one will be fine. All the "Best Mower" guides have something different.

I'd like a leaf collector function and a roller and for it to last.

How about a battery yard force, you'll soon get fed up with cables.

[Mr Pointy]

How about a robot mower - it'll give you a better lawn.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[biggiles]

Do look at cordless - if you already have some drill batteries, you may be already half-way there?

Robot mowers are also great, see long forum thread.

I am a happy user of both.

[dhutch]

Mr Pointy said:

How about a robot mower - it'll give you a better lawn.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I was going to say the same.

Not suitable for all application, but I would give it serious considerations.

Flymo Easilife, or Worx Landroid being the two more common.

[Wildfire]

biggiles said:

Do look at cordless - if you already have some drill batteries, you may be already half-way there?

Robot mowers are also great, see long forum thread.

I am a happy user of both.

I have 2 sets of DeWalt, an older 36V set which isn't in use and the 18V XR, the mower is fairly pricey for that and I've seen some Bosch Rotak ones for half the price. Although I am not massively keen on having loads of different batteries.

PositronicRay said:

How about a battery yard force, you'll soon get fed up with cables.

I hadn't see Yardforce before, the 34cm one with a roller does seem to only last 25 minutes on a battery. My thinking was that I would get a better electric one for the same price as a budget battery model and a few batteries.

dhutch said:

I was going to say the same.

Not suitable for all application, but I would give it serious considerations.

Flymo Easilife, or Worx Landroid being the two more common.

Robots have a few issues for me. The lawn isn't too flat, I quite like putting my music on and getting on with gardening, the domestic manager is totally against one and they are mostly out of my price range. The last two factors being the bigger ones.

[8-P]

I bought this a few years back to replace my trusty Mountfield as I wanted a roller. Im happy enough

https://www.trafalgargroundcare.co.uk/cobra-rm4140...

[OutInTheShed]

We have a cheap Qualcast rotary from Argos.
If you have an outside socket, the cable is not much faff.

If you want a real quality lawn, then a cylinder mower might be best?

[spikeyhead]

I'd get one of these for a 100m2 lawn

https://www.screwfix.com/p/webb-30cm-hand-push-rol...

You'll never have a flat battery, or run over the cord, and it will be just as quick as anything else.