Lawn mower for small garden

mdaw

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Hi all,

Looking for some recommendations on some lawn mowers for a small garden based on your own experiences. Lawn is small and flat but has a swing that takes up a fair amount of room making it tricky to get around.

Last year I bought a Bosch push along cylinder mower (non electric) when a very old Flymo packed up after a couple of uses. Whilst I thought this would be a good idea being such a small garden I've found that you barely get any momentum before you're at the other end and just isn't cutting nicely. Not to mention my lawn is not in the best shape with weeds etc. Which doesn't help I know.
 
I have a small lawn and use a push, non electric mower. It’s a qualcast panther. It’s great. Easy to use. Have had it 15 years plus. Still works as new.
 
I got a 70 quid flymo 10 years ago that still works fine, it's wearing out a bit (snapped plastic bits) so will get replaced at some point with an equivalent product.

this sort of thing: Flymo Speedi-Mo 360C

Haze said:
Get rid of the lawn, and have something that actually supports nature
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Can you suggest some alternatives?
I've seen ppl say this a few times but they can never suggest anything better.
 
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Look at a small battery powered mower? They're light and maneuverable, no cable to trip over, no messing with petrol, and no struggling with thicker grass like a manual cylinder mower does.
I have a spear and jackson one but I do find this one a little hard to recommend as the grasscatcher doesn't fit properly. It's just an irritation though, functionally it works very well.
 
throwaway4372 said:
I got a 70 quid flymo 10 years ago that still works fine, it's wearing out a bit (snapped plastic bits) so will get replaced at some point with an equivalent product.

this sort of thing: Flymo Speedi-Mo 360C


Can you suggest some alternatives?
I've seen ppl say this a few times but they can never suggest anything better.
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Depends on what you want to use the garden for really, like if you had kids or a dog ect, then lawns are still useful, other wise there are plants like, creeping thyme or creeping phlox ect
 
I've got a Mac Allister battery mower. It's nice to be able to cut the grass without pratting around with cables.
Not as nicely built as my previous Bosch, but it works fine.
 
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I've got an entry level Worx cordless mower. Any of the small cordless mowers would probably do you, but with the collection box they are quite long, so depends if your garden is really small or not. Otherwise, if you have an electric socket easily available, a small corded hover mower would do, Flymo are OK. There's a list of lawnmower brand websites here for your research.
 
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I still want a lawn for my son to play on but thanks for the suggestions. It is a very small lawn. That's why I thought the push along would work well. It's easy enough when set to a longer setting but leaves it too long for my liking. On the shorter settings it just doesn't cut evenly. I can approach in all sorts of directions and parts still don't get cut very well. I only moved in 18 months ago and the lawn wasn't in great shape. Not being much of a gardner myself I just want a quick easy way to get it done but look ok. I've used Flymo in the past a few times. All hover mowers. Mainly pretty old ones. The first house I rented had one in the shed already that I used. It was a bit dodgy but worked. Funny thing was where it sloped towards the fence the mower seemed to stay the same height making the grass look flat until you walked over it . Then a few hand me downs from my in laws all Flymo hover. Last one was probably near 15 years old and sat in my loft of my flat for 6 years. I did actually buy the equivalent of the Bosch r34 for one property I rented with a long lawn and worked well but felt a little cheap but they all seem to look and feel like that now to me. I ended up giving that to my mum when I bought my flat and kept the fymo if I ever moved to a house which I did only for it to work a few times and die. I am tempted by the Bosch r32 as it's such a small lawn but wondered what others had used to recommend more recently. I was also tempted by a powerbase 32cm one from homebase but they are collection only and not in stock in shops near me. At £45 it would do if it lasted a few years as it's cheap and cheerful. I'm close to a plug socket so it's easy to go round without any trouble so no need for the extra expense of cordless or petrol.
As mentioned before the push along seemed a good idea but in practice just makes it very hard work especially with a large swing there on what is a small space. It's width totalling about 50cm wheel to wheel makes it harder as well. I also find a lot of grass gets wrapped around the axle between the wheel and the blade and is quite difficult to pull out. Just to many things that just make it a frustration to do a very simple job. I've used an old strimmer when it's got long for first cut and getting back from holiday but even that seems to take forever and again difficult to make it look even. I've replaced the reel and that has helped a bit. The Flymo when it worked was just much easier the couple of times it worked and then just strim the really tricky bits if necessary.
 
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gingergundog said:
I wouldn't say a lawn doesn't support nature, there will always be certain insects and worms that some birds will like. Its good to have a bit of variety though like a longer wild area as well as various plants.
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Quite, there are a few residents where I live in a small village surrounded by fields that promote this agenda. They even state this to myself where there is a untouched field the other side of my fence and I have foxes, badgers and hedgehogs all on our lawn. Whilst such advice maybe relevant for towns and cities but to suggest only 'meadows' support wildlife is daft and inaccurate..
 
I was going to share some images but I don't understand this imgur thing. I managed a few years back but can't remember how to do it. The app is horrid.
 
Sinbad2000 said:
Look at a small battery powered mower? They're light and maneuverable, no cable to trip over, no messing with petrol, and no struggling with thicker grass like a manual cylinder mower does.
I have a spear and jackson one but I do find this one a little hard to recommend as the grasscatcher doesn't fit properly. It's just an irritation though, functionally it works very well.
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I have the 40 volt spear and Jackson and it's been absolutely awesome tbh, I don't use the collection box but don't recall an issue, this is only the top third of the garden but it will do it on one charge and weighs next to nothing

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mdaw said:
I was going to share some images but I don't understand this imgur thing. I managed a few years back but can't remember how to do it. The app is horrid.
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i just use imbb on my phone, upload the photo , click on the uploaded image and select open in new tab then select the address from that ,its probably a clumsy method but always works
 
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First one was after 3 days growth from the strim. The brush is 28cm just for some size comparison. Last is after I'd done a cut with the mower. That took 20 mins going over at all sorts of angles and directions to try and get parts that just don't cut nicely.
 
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