Stihl built its reputation on chainsaws, and that engineering culture carries straight into the lawn mower range. Pick up a Stihl mower and the first thing you notice is the weight, balance, and finish of a piece of professional kit,…
A self-propelled mower is the upgrade that most gardeners realise they should have made years earlier. For anyone cutting more than 200 square metres of lawn, or anything that includes a slope, the difference between pushing a manual mower and…
Stand in front of the cordless mower aisle at any large retailer and the marketing tells you that voltage is everything. A 40V mower is twice as good as a 20V mower, an 80V mower is the dream, and as…
Buying a strimmer (or string trimmer, weed eater, whipper-snipper, depending on where you grew up) looks simple until you stand in front of 40 models at a garden centre and discover the cheap one is £35/$45 and the expensive one…
Look at the lawn outside any cricket ground, bowling green or championship golf course and you are looking at the work of a cylinder mower. Look at almost any domestic garden and you are looking at the work of a…
Buying your first petrol lawn mower is one of those decisions where the wrong choice costs you two or three times more over five years than the right one. The difference between a £150 supermarket special and a £400 entry-level…
Most lawn owners bag their clippings out of habit, not because the lawn needs it. The bag fills up, you stop to empty it, walk it to the compost heap or the green waste bin, come back, and repeat the…
You roll the petrol mower out of the shed on the first warm Saturday in May, prime the bulb three times, brace your foot on the deck and pull the cord. Nothing. You pull again, harder. Still nothing. By the…
Walk through any allotment, golf club workshop or older suburban garage and there is a good chance you will see a Honda lawn mower from the 1990s or early 2000s, still cutting grass every Saturday. The grip is faded, the…
A dull mower blade is the single most common reason a lawn looks ragged in summer. It rips the tips of each grass plant instead of slicing them, leaving a frayed, whitish-grey edge that browns within 48 hours and lets…
