You give the mower one last tug, the pull cord snaps, and the frayed end whips back into the housing and vanishes. It is one of the most common faults on a petrol mower, and one of the easiest to…
A self-propelled mower that has stopped pulling itself along feels broken, but the fault is usually one cheap part. If the engine still starts and the blade still spins, yet you find yourself shoving the machine across the grass, the…
A sharp mower blade cuts grass; a dull one tears it. That single difference decides how healthy a lawn looks and how well it fights off disease. Sharpening and rebalancing a blade sounds like garage-level mechanics, but on most walk-behind…
A throttle cable that has seized with rust and grit turns a good mower into a frustrating one. The engine fights you when you try to start it, the revs stick where you do not want them, and the choke…
If a petrol mower takes ten pulls to start, sputters and dies, or runs rough all the way round the lawn, the carburettor is the first place to look. Family Handyman puts a figure on how common this is: small…
The price on the box is only the start of what a mower costs you. Run three machines of the same cutting width side by side for ten years, a corded electric, a cordless battery and a petrol, and the…
The single most expensive mistake with a petrol mower is putting the wrong kind of fuel in it, and whether a fuel is right or wrong depends entirely on one thing: does the engine run on two strokes or four?…
Gtech built its name on cordless simplicity, and its lawn mowers follow the same idea: light, push along machines with a removable battery and no cable to trail across the grass. The range centres on two models, the CLM 2.0…
The number stamped on a petrol mower’s engine, 125cc, 160cc, 190cc, tells you the engine’s displacement, not how well it cuts. A bigger figure buys more torque for thick grass and slopes, but past a point it only burns more…
Cutting width sets how many lengths of the lawn you walk. Nothing else on the spec sheet changes that number. Engine size, self-propelled drive, a bigger grass bag: all of those change how pleasant the laps feel. Only the deck…
