A thin ribbon of standing grass left behind on every pass is one of the most irritating mower faults, partly because it looks like the machine is mocking you. The fix is usually quick once you know which of a…
A thick crust of dried grass under your mower deck is not just untidy, it quietly wrecks the quality of your cut. The deck is shaped to create a controlled airflow that lifts each blade of grass upright a fraction…
A mower that suddenly shakes, buzzes through the handles or rattles louder than usual is trying to tell you something, and the message is almost always the same: something is spinning out of balance. In the great majority of cases…
Cylinder and rotary mowers do the same job in two completely different ways, and the difference decides which one will give you the lawn you want. A cylinder mower shears each blade of grass like a pair of scissors, producing…
A petrol mower that starts fine, runs for ten or twenty minutes and then dies on a hot day, only to restart once it has cooled, is showing one of the most recognisable faults in small engines. The cause is…
A mower blade is a wear part, not a permanent fixture, and there comes a point where no amount of sharpening will bring it back. Keep grinding a blade past that point and you are mowing with a thin, unbalanced…
For a small lawn, the mower that makes the most sense is often the one the gardening world has quietly moved on from: the corded electric. While attention has shifted to cordless batteries and robot mowers, a plug-in mower still…
When a self-propelled mower stops pulling itself along and you find yourself shoving it like an ordinary push mower, the fault is almost never the engine. The blade still spins, the engine still runs, so the problem sits in the…
A scarifier and a thatch rake look like rivals on the shop shelf, but they do different jobs, and buying the wrong one for your lawn either wastes money or tears the turf to shreds. The short version: a thatch…
When summer growth surges and your mower starts to labour, cough and lose revs in the thick stuff, the engine is telling you it cannot get the air, the cut or the clearance it needs. Most of the time the…
