It's also no extra effort than the hover, which I wasn't expecting.

PROS
o Cheap compared with electrical and petrol alternatives
o Time saving
o Cuts well
o You can get a rudimentary stripe effect

CONS
o Not all grass ends up in the grass box
o Grass box frequently falls off
o Sometimes jams in long grass


Proof that the simplest solutions are the best   February 14, 2005
 80 out of 80 found this review helpful

I bought this to replace a broken flymo. Actually that is not quite true I bought a small flymo to replace a flymo that had broken but that was so bad and inadequate that it was bought tried and returned for a refund in a single afternoon. After that I bought this to replace the electric mower and it is a revelation to use one of these. Most people will probably assume that any powered solution must automatically be better but this proves otherwise.

Unless you have a large lawn this is far less work than trying to use any small powered mower. It's lighter to move around the garden, the grass cuttings are small enough that they can be left on the lawn without problems and there are no problems with cables getting in the way. Are there any problems with this? well none that you wouldn't have with a powered lawn mower, the only problem I have found is a tendency to clog on the first cut of the year but I've found that with every lawn mower I've ever used.

Above all this has one major virtue that no other lawn mower has - it is so simple that the chance of it's breaking is so low as to be negligible and if anything does go wrong then you can fix it yourself.

Unless you have a large lawn then I would recommend to anyone that they ditch the power mowers and get one of these.