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For mowers, my personsal opinion is just go for a 4 stroke. Dont go for the cheapest, go one or 2 levels up, so still not overly expensive. But something with a suitable chassis and a motor where maintenance parts are available. My grandpa had a cox with a briggs and stratton motor. That was a good unit. I have a victa with a briggs and stratton, again a good unit for domestic work. So mine may only be a 2 blade, but for my domestic use its fine. 18' deck, 158cc, well its a decade or more old but was a tad shy of $300 new. Blades are cheap, same as the spark plug and oil, stuff you only change after a long time. Its not that hard to run down the servo to fill the petrol can.
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![]() I have a fair sized front and back lawn and would never go back to petrol.
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Honda mowers any good ?
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Considering you have a smaller area, I would be aiming for an 18 inch steal base mower. I have used various 18'' Victa's for a long time, they are light and easy to move around smaller areas. The Victa Corvette 100 or 200 would be a decent option, the 200 has a mulching function. Both have the same 140cc OHV 4-Stroke engine. https://www.victa.com/au/en_au/produ...vette-100.html https://www.victa.com/au/en_au/produ...vette-200.html If you want a little more grunt, with the same base, the Corvette 300 comes with a 163cc version of the Briggs OHV engine. https://www.victa.com/au/en_au/produ...vette-300.html I recently got a friend a Corvette 300 and she is delighted with it. These Victa's range from 26 - 31 kg. ![]() By comparison, the Honda HRU19 is a $900 unit with an alloy 19'' base and a 33kg weight. https://powerequipment.honda.com.au/...n/mowers/hru19 Avoid the steal based Honda's (HRN216's) as these were designed for American style lawns (thick and tall) and so don't cut low enough a feature bar blade which are less efficient for catching. https://powerequipment.honda.com.au/...mowers/hrn216#! If it was me, and considering the small space and need for light weight, I would go the Victa Corvette 200.
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Sorry made a generalisation about battery mowers.I am thinking the cheaper $3-500 jobs not the $1000+ size.I know there are battery powered ride ons for $4-10 thousand which apparently are pretty good!but then again a $10,000 zero turn petrol is a pretty good bit of gear
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In your case if you only have a smallish area to maintain It might be worth considering a battery pack unit ..They just keep getting better all the time .. Just have a good old shop around and no doubt you'll find something pretty decent without going far outside your budget ... |
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Do all the mowers these days have only a basic throttle control, it seems it's either idle or fast for cutting.
im a lawn freak and love my tall fescue. I would have thought having the blades spinning as fast as you want / need would give a better cut. Not sure if I like having virtually no control over rpm. Or is it a case of there revving as fast as possible any way. Not sure if I should just keep the old Rover going, |
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Fair enough comment I expect ..Also a fan of Makita stuff and own a brushless drill/driver kit , brushless reciprocating saw , blower , sander , corded hammer drill , etc and likely to be adding more beaut tools as I go ... Two years ago on the spur of the moment I bought a basic Makita lawn mower for less than $400 at Mitre 10 .. It's the petrol 140 cc model... Never caused me any issues yet but granted it hasn't been given a hard time . It's nothing special compared to other brands but until it breaks I'll reserve my judgement on their mowers ..It's a nice looking mower for sure and I love the comfort grip handles..Cheers...
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The newer OHV Briggs engines (like on the Victa I posted above) have a more noticeable graduation from idle to full throttle. Having said that, newer generation lawn mowers don't rev as hard as older engines. A lot of that would be for emissions and safety. You can always make a little tweak to get a few more revs while not harming the engine. Tall fescue is easier to cut than say Kikuyu so added hp or revs is not as crucial.
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Sorry to butt in, just a quick one.
I’ve got the new filter for my Shindaiwa trimmer, it’s fine fibrous cloth in a plastic frame the size of a matchbox. Do these go in bone dry or lightly oiled? Whenever I cleaned the old one with degreaser spray and a hot rinse, it seemed to have residual oil at the edges that wicked back into it. |
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Interesting statement from Planet Ark Founder
![]() "Push to ban petrol powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers" https://www.9news.com.au/national/pu...5-8c4c2fa41681
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The other angle from environmentalism. Lithium ion batteries arent the greatest for the environment to manufacture. They do last a very long time if maintained. However if its say for a piece of equipment that someone uses ever 2 weeks during summer, then sits for 8 weeks during winter as the grass doesnt grow, their lifespan will deminish faster. And disposale of lithium ion batteries also is not good for the environment. |
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So some “expert” reckons there are more emissions from a petrol leaf blower in 1 hour than 20 hours driving a car from Melb to Brisbane.So more from less than .5 litre of petrol compared to at least 100 litres.Obviously some peoples numbers work differently to mine.
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Don't forget that this is Kalifornia, where 99% of everything has to have a 'may cause cancer' warning on it.
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I do rememberaybe 15 years ago reading an article in the paper that was probably due to a slow news day claiming that the smog, so poluted fog on cold days, was 100% due to 2 stroke gardening equipment and 2 stroke outboards. |
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116. I've built up quite a 'collection' of edge trimmer cord, picking up the discarded, throw-away remnants as I walk along, keeping an eagle eye on the nature strip, road and gutter - mainly the gutter. Green, dark red, dark blue, light blue, yellow, orange, grey, clear, orange/grey, clear/grey; a rare purple; cord with a twist, or a square profile, but most are a plain round profile; thick and thin cord. Overflowing from my 825g SPC apricots tin, the colours and tangled mess reminds me of a bag of snakes - the snakes we eat. Sometimes there is one long piece but mostly there are few small bits.
Today I hit the jackpot. On a corner block, 116 fragments of fluoro orange. The longest is 15mm; the smallest are tiny, tiny pieces 1mm long. At least the fluoro orange made it easy to see. I wonder if it would be possible to calculate the amount of edge trimmer cord, by weight and number of fragments, that flows into the creeks, rivers and oceans in one day. |
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Have you seen the allegedly biodegradable trimmer line offered by a couple of brands? If they could make it in an aggressive and durable cross-section, I’d be happy to pay a premium.
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I used 316 SS braided cable, get it from any marine supplier, just wear steel cap boots, if it gets tangled in wire fencing it don't snap, just stops the machine, have to be careful with it, its very vicious!
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Personally I hate noisy mowers, leaf blowers ( in confined spaces ) as in courtyards with colourbond steel fencing whipper snippers are fairly good, and the worst of all, backyard chainsaws on a nice quiet Sunday in Autumn and Winter!...... |
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Do we or did we ever get this beauty in Australia ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFGjgcF9RzQ On Toro in general ... Our bowls greenkeeper used to operate an electric mains powered green mower to do the 8 rink x 8 rink green . Not sure of the brand but it's pretty standard fare for many clubs . It finally carked it and they're not cheap to replace . We are a double club for bowls and golf and we have a triplex Toro for the golf greens and a couple of walk behind greens mowers as back up . One of them is the Turf Master 1000 also made by Toro .. Been around for a good while already I think . Glenn (greenkeeper} tried the petrol Turf Master 1000 on the bowls green last year while the club decided on a new bowls mower . He loved the Turf Master that much and it cut so well and damaged on the turns less that it ended up being what we went with .. This Time Master walk behind lawn mower seems pretty decent and curious if anybody here has come across them ... |
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I would only buy one of these Toro's if I had Tall Fescue and mowed religiously every week. Otherwise, they just block up too much.
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Done a fair bit of travelling in regional WA, every smallish town with a bowls club, 2 greens size, all had synthetic surfaces, seems they worked OK, grass depth was varied by sand I think, locals and visitors liked it, but I only went for the cheap meals and grog!
And it saves labour costs and in particular water use! So what are the pro's and cons of synthetic versus natural grass, if any! |
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