Battery lawn mowers

Well, I bought a cordless mower. I didn't go for for the Rotak in the end. I bought a Gtech Falcon. It was a close run thing but I went for the Gtech mainly because it had a comparable width of cut (43cm) to the corded mower I have (40cm). I hope I've done the right thing because at £349, it's the most expensive mower I've ever bought.

Hope so Mart. Happy mowing  :;smile:

My back garden

Had a few changes since this one was taken

Another one

Beautiful Jimmy 

Thank you Goldie--a lot of credit goes to my wife who is Garden crazy

Tell her it looks smashing Jimmy 

Each to his or her own, of course.
But I have not mowed a lawn in over twenty years.
I pay a bloke who mows, trims edges, uses a blower, disposes of cut grass, leaves etc etc.

If I add up the cost of buying and maintaining a mower and a whipper-sniper and a blower - blades, fuel, running repairs and value my own time,
it's cheap.  
I can sit happily on the deck watching the bloke sweat in the Australian sun as I sip on a chilled glass of fine Western Australian Semillon ..........

As long as I can find the front door, that's fine.


I am also totally committed to the philosophy "if ya can't eat it, don't grow it".
More than satisfied to enjoy the pretty flowers and such which my neighbours spend half their lives tending
and the native flora which abounds here.

goats are best!

davo wrote:

goats are best!

 ..but I think they eat everything else too don't they, including garden gloves and boots if you leave them laying about. Maybe a sheep would be better? :)

Ha ha love it Mart  :;smile:

I cut through the cord on my last mower, meaning I had to incorporate a cable joiner.  I finally got fed up with tripping over the cord and with it getting in the way, and invested in a cordless model. The battery charges pretty fast and it lasts plenty long enough.  I paid an unbelievably good price at Argos.

http://www.argos.co.uk/product/2878584

£200 ..... seems like a lot of money to me, but I only have a patch of grass 20ft x 6ft that needs mowing so I could never justify the expense.

malcolm wrote:

£200 ..... seems like a lot of money to me, but I only have a patch of grass 20ft x 6ft that needs mowing so I could never justify the expense.

Amazons price is £270.  The battery represents quite a fair size part of the price.  It has been worth every penny.