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…
Take the cover off your petrol mower’s air filter before the next cut and hold the element up against a bright sky. If almost no light comes through the pleats, the engine has been running rich for hours and you…
STIGA is one of those mower brands people buy on a shop assistant’s word without ever working out which model actually fits their garden. The range runs from a tidy little cordless machine for a courtyard lawn to ride-on tractors…
When a heatwave sends your lawn brown and dormant, the grass stops growing and the mower goes quiet for weeks. That idle stretch does more harm to a petrol engine than most people realise, and the damage happens out of…
If your cut has looked ragged lately and the grass tips brown a day after mowing, dry summer conditions have almost certainly taken the edge off your blade sooner than the calendar says they should. A blade that sailed through…
The spring loaded bar you hold against the handle of a walk behind mower is the single most important safety part on the machine. Let it go and the blade stops, on most mowers within three seconds. That bar has…
