Anyone recommend a push lawnmower

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baldowrie wrote:I decided to forgo the petrol option and the push option and go for cordless!

Unfortunately the cheapest one does stripy lawns :shock: and it's considerably cheaper too!
Make, model and price please.

Not that I'll be bothering - my lawn looks better than ever thanks to the Brill Razorcut (push) mower I mentioned above. It's more being able to mow when you like (rather than worry about noise and neighbours) than the fact it's cheaper to run than the others I think.

And it does great stripes, and I love them. But who would want to be anything other than British anyway :)

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ssherlock wrote: And it does great stripes, and I love them. But who would want to be anything other than British anyway :)
Oy!!! :mrgreen:
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On fleaby. although I have bought it through my catalogue as with my commission and years interest free it works out near enough the same for me, not the RRP they say here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=007

My Mother has a rotary cordless and it works well

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Post: # 108009Post baldowrie »

Just to add all those stripes and straight lines :shaking2:

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baldowrie wrote:On fleaby. although I have bought it through my catalogue as with my commission and years interest free it works out near enough the same for me, not the RRP they say here.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=007

My Mother has a rotary cordless and it works well
How does it manage with longer grass?

If you could re-charge it using a solar powered trickle charger as well it would be perfect :)

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How does it manage with longer grass?
Got no idea but I don't intend to allow the grass to grow that long to find out :wink: I only have small areas of grass.
If you could re-charge it using a solar powered trickle charger as well it would be perfect :)
So you read my mind then?

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Post: # 108580Post Devon Dumpling »

We have a Qualcast Panther as well and we find it to be great, even on longish grass...
Oh to be in Devon....

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Devon Dumpling wrote:We have a Qualcast Panther as well and we find it to be great, even on longish grass...
Is your lawn very flat?

My next door neighbour has a Qualcast panther and it's useless on my (quite bumpy) lawn. It almost put me off push mowers until I came across the Brill Razorcut.

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My 'lawn' is on a hill , big(11mx25m), crappy piece of mole hill'ed and couch grass'ed and bumpy (ie. pretty bad nick) My qualcast panther does fine on it.

Strange, how we all have such polarised experiences, isn't it? I have never used any other lawn mower, so to me, it is fine and perfectly acceptable - and I don't have stripes :roll:
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no stripes here either.. the trick is not to walk in a straight line.....
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Annpan wrote:Strange, how we all have such polarised experiences, isn't it? I have never used any other lawn mower, so to me, it is fine and perfectly acceptable - and I don't have stripes :roll:
Life would be boring if we were all the same :)

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red wrote:no stripes here either.. the trick is not to walk in a straight line.....
Couldn't do that if I tried, and that's without a tipple :wink:

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could I be done for being drunk in charge of a push mower then? :mrgreen: :drunken:
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