Not Fit for Purpose There are so many design faults with this lawn mower, I believe it not fit for purpose. We purchased it to replace our 20 year old Efco. We chose a wider cut and a larger grass collecting box to enable us to cut our grass using less time and effort. Both have increased instead of becoming less. The design faults are as follows in order of severity.

1) Grass collecting box has a very shiny, slidey base, with the back being far too high off the ground. The result is the grass does not get sent to the back of the box, it merely collects at the exit of the grass from the blades and simply chokes all the time. If you manually push the grass up to the back of the box to enable more cutting before emptying it simply just falls back down. Effectively this bigger collecting box has to be emptied when only 1/3rd full. Even then that has been with a couple of clearing of grass from the exit point to stop the choking.

2) The wheels are made of very hard plastic with very little tread, thus if cutting in any dampness of or mossy grass, the wheels simply spin.

3) The easy start pull cord, often sticks and the mower has to be pushed forward and backward to unlock it. This may just be a fault with ours.

4) The mower is very heavy which makes it a much more strenuous job manoeuvring around edges etc.

5) The model we purchased has no speed adjustment and the speed of this one is far too fast and simply takes off, again adding to the lack of control around edges.....perhaps also adding to the choking of grass.

Overall the above makes this Mower not fit for purpose, we have tried it on 4 occasions and have reached the same conclusion every time, eventually giving up and taking out the old trusty Efco to complete the job.

Great Lawnmower Great lawnmower for large gardens. The grass collection basket is a bit insecure but still works okay.