Lawnmower Recommendation

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I need a lawnmower. Our garden is approx the size of a tennis court (maybe a bit smaller)

I know nothing about lawnmowers really but would like a petrol one, possibly self driven and one that makes stripes would be nice.

Im happy to buy second hand and willing to pay £150 - 200.

Looking for types and make recommendations please..
 
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Hayter Hawk - 16 inch self propelled rotary with rear roller :idea:
 
Thanks for the suggestions. I've looked at both those mowers on ebay so will bid on which ever comes up soonest/nearest!
 
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both those mowers will be way too small-unless you like to spend the whole day doing the lawn..

you want something minimum 18inch cut.

any half decent mowers will give you stripes so you dont have to get one with a roller-which are more often more expensive than a four wheel rotary type.

for the money you have i would buy a used professional mower like an etesia pbe46 or phe46 which you give you a perfect cut, will not fall apart in 5 minutes and have good strong 6hp engines.

ideally you want a honda hrh535 but i dont think you will find one for the money-try older hr214 hr 215 hr 216 with or without rollers.

do not buy a used domestic mower with plastic wheels and 3.5 briggs engine!
 
I cant find any of the models you've mentioned that are local enough to me. Im considering a Honda Izy, but upping my budget and buying new to take advantage of the gaurantee.

Any reason why i shouldnt buy one of these?
 
The Izy is great for general cutting of average lawns (I have one and use it for garden maintenance jobs) but it doesnt give a great strip, neither does it cut especially well as it has a rotating "blade" that hacks off the grass.

I would go for a cylinder mower, and if I had the funds I would get a pro model. Consider it the last mower you will ever buy, and then you can justify the cost!
 
hahah! why on earth would you suggest someone buy a mower with a smaller cut? 16inch why? 250sqm metre lawn definitely justifies buying something that will get the job done that much quicker. 18 inch minimum-anything less is just making more work just for the sake of it-and i like cutting grass!

yes he said he had a 'tennis court size' lawn-not a tennis court, so i wouldnt go with a cylinder mower. even if you have a cylinder mower, you still need a rotary to do the first cuts of long grass at the start of the season... so a cylinder mower is a bit specialist to recommend to someone who only needs 'a mower'.

izy's are probably the honda to avoid as they have steel chassis that are very often up for sale because of rust and rot.
 
Go for any 21" Honda, self propelled and rotary cut......Izy or otherwise.
If you want the striped effect, the non roller type will do just as well really - there's a rubber strip that combs the grass well enough.
If you are concerned about corrosion, tip the thing upside down at the end of the season after draining off the oil and fuel - and paint the deck underside with Hammerite....it'll last for years.
John :)
 
My parents use a 18 inch rotary mower for a lawn thats maybe two tennis courts worth of area, maybe only 1.5, but its various bits joined up, with some trees in it, etc etc. So while it takes 2hours working fairly hard and using a barrow to take the cuttings three loads at a time to the heap at the end of the lawn, you couldn't do it much faster with a bigger mower, and mum wouldn't easily manage a 21-22inch mower.

They had a couple of Mountfields before the name was sold out to a Chinese company, and are now on there first Hayter. Not cheap at about £500, more if you dont shop around, but they have done 10 years a piece, which is not much more than £1.50 per hour of use.

Cylinder mowers seem to cost more than rotary, cheap rotarys are buttons, but equally they appear to last a long time and there are lots of second hand mowers about.


Daniel
 

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