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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:02 am Post subject: Lawn mower
Without wanting to go all Pleasant Valley Sunday, we need a lawn mower. It's an area of about 50m by 20m, but not in one entire bit, there are beds and wiggly edges. So, petrol or electric? Or a push-along one? A hover one? I think I want a second hand one rather than paying out for new.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:10 am Post subject:

I would go for electric for that size lawn - lighter and more manoeuvrable. Hover ones mulch up the grass and leave it lying around, which is fine if you mow regularly and frequently. Less so if you leave it for longer between mowings.
OTOH, if you have a box on the mower, you will need to empty it several times per mowing, which can be annoying. Depends whether you view grass clippings as a resource or not.

ETA Sadly, Rob's lawnmower collection is rather depleted now, or you could have taken one away with you!

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:12 am Post subject:
try freecycle, This time of year people upgrade their mowers if they have big gardens. They need to offload the old ones.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:15 am Post subject:
Thanks, Nell; I'm keeping an eye out; I can't put up a wanted as I have used up all my Freecycle Chi scrounging stuff for the market over the last few weeks Judith; you mean your barn is EMPTY?

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:17 am Post subject:
I could put up a wanted here but then we would have to sort out courier. Perhaps give it a few days and then shout if you would like me to?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:18 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

Judith; you mean your barn is EMPTY?

Good heavens, no. It is now full of all the stuff from the lean-to.

Plus Paul the Cat Man's junk that I agreed to store for a "couple of months" two years ago.

But unfortunately I did Freecycle the spare mowers in a fit of organisation.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:22 am Post subject:
Thank you! There's an electric flymo compact 300 on ebay for �30. I've just put in a bid. If that does't come to anything, I'll maybe PM you. Judith: he does know you're moving, doesn't he?

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:24 am Post subject:

Chez wrote:

he does *know* you're moving, doesn't he?

Nope.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 10:26 am Post subject:

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 7761
Location: 91� N

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 11:04 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

I'd go with petrol. 1000 m2 is a fair size to mow and if you've got 50m cable runs around the place they'll just be a pain to manage. You could even try the local council tips, ours usually has a few spares and repairs type lawnmowers kicking around for resale.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 11:12 am Post subject:
I've been there - I'm not 100% convinced Chez really means metres!

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 12:23 pm Post subject:
It's what, a quarter of a football pitch at the quoted sizes. I wouldn't want a flex behind me that long. it would weigh a ton, to start with.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 3:47 pm Post subject:
Buy a decent petrol mower - it'll do the job quickly and you won't drive your neighbours mental listening to an inadequate electric mower drone for hours...

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 4:24 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

I've been there - I'm not 100% convinced Chez really means metres!

I think I might have over-estimated - I based it on poultry-net lengths and I've just realised, it goes quite a long way round the edge as well as across the bottom. So, perhaps, 20m along one edge and 10 along the other might be more realistic.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46239
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 12 4:25 pm Post subject:
sheep? sorry

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