Walk onto any professional sports turf operation, country estate or municipal grounds team and one mower brand turns up again and again. Toro. Founded in 1914 in Minnesota to build tractor engines, the company quietly became the global standard for…
A clean oil change is the single piece of mower maintenance that decides whether your engine survives summer in good condition or starts smoking in mid-July. Petrol mower engines run hot, dirty and at constant high revs, and the oil…
Most people choose a mower by price, brand, or whether the neighbour has one they like the look of. The single specification that decides how long you spend mowing every weekend is something nobody mentions in the showroom: cutting deck…
If you walk into a garden centre this spring, the petrol mower display has shrunk and the Ego stand has doubled in size. That shift is not marketing noise. Ego sells more 56V cordless mowers in domestic outlets than any…
You mow the lawn, step back to admire it, and there they are. Bald, brown patches every few metres where the mower has taken the grass right down to the soil. These scalp marks usually appear on the high points…
Husqvarna is a Swedish brand most people associate with chainsaws and forestry kit, which is partly why their mowers are quietly the most reliable consumer machines on the market. The same factory engineering culture that goes into professional logging tools…
The Bosch Rotak range has been the quiet workhorse of domestic lawn care for over twenty years. While headlines focus on premium brands at premium prices, a Bosch Rotak owner is usually somewhere in the background, mowing a lawn that…
Most modern rotary mowers offer three cutting modes, three different ways of dealing with the clippings the blade produces. The owner’s manual typically describes each mode in a single sentence and assumes the user will pick. Most people pick whichever…
The mower has done a couple of months of mowing already, the grass is growing faster than it will at any other point in the year, and the first real heatwave of summer is probably within a fortnight. The mower…
Flymo gets dismissed too often as a budget brand for people who do not take their lawn seriously. The reality is more interesting. On the kind of awkward garden that wheeled mowers physically cannot handle well, a hover mower is…
