If your mower started on the first or second pull last autumn and now refuses to fire at all, the fuel sitting in the tank is the most likely reason, not the engine. Modern standard unleaded contains up to 10…
If a petrol mower drags on the pull cord, fires then dies, runs rough or chews through more fuel than it used to, the spark plug is the cheapest part to suspect first. A new plug costs only a few…
Ryobi has built its cordless mowers around one idea: a single battery that powers everything you own. If you are weighing one up, the most useful starting point is to match the deck width and battery size to your lawn,…
Before you buy an Einhell cordless mower, three things decide whether you get the right machine: the size of your lawn, whether the price includes batteries or not, and which battery capacity comes in the box. Get those right and…
For a small, flat lawn of fine grass, a manual push reel mower can give a cleaner cut than a powered rotary costing three times as much, with no petrol, no battery, no cord, and almost no maintenance. The catch…
A grass box that clogs halfway across the lawn, leaving a trail of clippings on the ground and a half-empty bag, is one of the most common warm-weather mowing complaints, and it is almost never bad luck. A mower fills…
Worx has built its reputation on cordless tools that cost less than the big garden-machinery names while sharing batteries across an entire range, and its mowers fall into two distinct camps that suit very different gardens. On one side sit…
Makita has built one of the widest cordless mower ranges of any tool brand, stretching from a small 33cm push model for a courtyard up to a self-propelled 48cm machine that will take on a half-acre plot. That breadth is…
Few garden frustrations are as familiar as a petrol mower that fires up willingly, runs for three or four seconds, then dies as if you had switched it off. Pull again, same result: a brief eager burst followed by silence.…
The first thing to do when your mower starts smoking is to switch it off and look at the colour of the cloud, because the colour is the diagnosis. Blue and white smoke almost always mean oil is being burned…
