Ahh, now then.
I was never a fan of the battery concept being a dyed in the wool fan of my halter self propelled petrol mower that lasted 21 years. But it was getting harder to start so changed it for another Chinese petrol mower by cobra, this with electric start. Used it for two seasons but as we have 4 lawns on 4 levels it was heavy to lift from level to level.
SWMBO, who is a much keener Gardner than I am bought herself a small mountfield battery mower a few years ago and it’s given good if occasional service.
I decided I’d give a battery mower a try and so sold the cobra and bought a Einhell. This failed within a week and was swapped for an identical replacement. The Einhell, worked fine, coping with about 120 sq m of lawn and was so light it was easy to lift and certainly didn’t need to be self propelled. Until a week ago!
The second mower failed! Not good enough I felt and demanded and received a full refund.
Looking around I discovered a combination of very dry summer and approaching end of season all retailers are currently discounting pretty much everything related to garden machinery.
So yesterday I popped to B&Q, bought. 41cm MAC mower with similar specs to the Einhell for under half of my refund. £150. Just finished using it tonight and it’s done all 4 lawns us in less that 50% of its power.
So I can’t recommend Einhell and its early days on the MAC but what I can say is that they are light enough not to need self propulsion and prices are currently very low compared to earlier in the year.
Gary
