Brill Razorcut 38 Push Reel Lawn Mower | 
| Brand: Brill
Buy New: $239.95
New (2) from $239.95
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 21519
Media: Misc.
MPN: 78371
Model: 78371
UPC: 718122025923
ASIN: B0013M2MBE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Ergonomically shaped handle | | • | Infinitely variable cutting height from 14 - 45 mm with monitoring scale on both sides | | • | 5 blades | | • | Weighs just 17 pounds |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The classic lawn mower now in a new design. Worthy of note is the modern shape of the robust and foldable handle bars in silver and grey with ergonomic handles. The large wheels with their special profile also ensure convenient working as does too the attractive "rear spoiler" which ejects the grass cuttings in a controlled manner. Mowing with the cylinder mower means precision cutting of each single blade of grass. Precision sharpened to a hundredth of a millimetre, blade cylinder and bottom blade of special hardened steel leave a lawn cut as if with scissors whereby the contactfree cutting technique a BRILL invention ensures quietness.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Reel mowers REELY don't cut it - literally! June 28, 2008
M. Seeley (NJ)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I ordered this elsewhere online, after my fiasco withe the cheapo Chinese Gilmour reel mower I ordered through Amazon. At least Amazon ROCKS - their return policy is the best! The Brill Razorcut 38 mower I bought instead is indeed well-built, as it should be for the premium price you pay for it. BUT... it wouldn't even cut the thick grass in my backyard, and I just mowed it with my old Honda gas mower 3 days before! The Brill just bogged down and stopped even if I literally ran up to that section of yard to get a "head of steam" up. I tried it on my front yard, which is thinner, and was uncut, but it couldn't cut the higher blades of grass. Even with 3 or 4 whacks, the high blades of grass bounced right back up, as if to laugh at this unpowered wimp of a lawnmower. Sorry, you enviro-whackos, but I'm forced to conclude these unpowered reel mowers are useless if you have any kind of real yard. Those of us in the real world with yards bigger than 500 sq. ft, and some weeds and thick grass, need some POWER! I'd love to go green, but I gotta mow my lawn! The electric mowers aren't quite there yet in battery run time, so I'm gonna order a new Honda. VROOM!
 For the most part a very nice mower. May 16, 2008
Paul Tucci (CANAL FULTON, OH USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Pros:
No more lawnmower fumes and heat in my face.
Cutting my lawn is now very quiet.
My hands are no longer tingle from the vibrations coming from my old gas powered push mower.
Sturdy handle design. This is very important.
Very easy to assemble and use.
Very small footprint, easy to store.
Virtually maintenence free.
Cons:
This mower DOES NOT like tall thick grass. You'll really have to push hard to get it to go through thick grass and will probalby have to go over what you just cut a second time to make the lawn look manicured.
If you fertilize your lawn you'll need to cut it about every other day. Like I said this mower does not like tall thick grass.
If you have any large mature trees in your yard this mower is not for you. You'll spend too much time picking up very small twigs that otherwise will get caught in the mower blades and bring you to a sudden stop.
Little bumps in the lawn have a tendancy to bring the mower to a stop.
Brill could have made cutting high grass easier if this mower was capable of cutting at a higher leangth then what is available.
Other observations:
The size of your lawn doesn't matter as long as it is fairly smooth and not too hilly.
Don't throw away the little metallic strip that comes with the mower. This is your blade gauge and will cost you $10 to replace.
Overall if your in good shape and have patience with this mower you should be okay. My lawn has never looked better and I enjoy the light workout.
 Not worth the money May 8, 2008
P. Clifford (Seattle, Washington)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I purchased the Brill Razorcut 38 in February, (not from Amazon though), and I am thoroughly disappointed with the machine. It may be highly rated by some people but in my opinion it's an overpriced piece of garbage. When I received it the first thing I noticed is the hubcaps had fallen off. Granted this is simply a cosmetic feature and doesn't affect the operation of the machine. The next thing I noticed is that I had to spread the lower part of the handles to create tension when it's inserted in the machine otherwise the handles continually fell off. Would you call this poor engineering? And finally after two and half months of easy use one of the plastic wheels is starting to fall off.
Warrantee on the machine appears to be another issue. From everything I have been able to find the manufacturers warrantee appears to be valid only in the European Union, warrantee in the United States apparently are offered by the individual seller.
This is a machine sold at Mercedes-Benz prices and is of Yugo quality.
 Brill-iant Retro Technology April 28, 2008
Cheese Gypsy (Ohio)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Like most everyone these days I'm concerned with the environment, and no part of my life pollutes more than my old lawnmower. My life has probably been shortened by two or three years from all the crap my mower belches as it rumbles across the yard. But no more!
The Brill mower is a lovely bit of engineering that works without fuss and more importantly, without fumes. It weighs less than 20 pounds, meaning everyone in my house can push this thing, even my six-year old, and storage is a snap since I can hang it on the wall of my garage. The bagging attachment is great, although it needs to be emptied fairly often, so I keep my wheelbarrow handy. Other benefits I like: no need to buy gas, no need to smell like gas, and no yanking your arm off trying to get the thing cranked. Just take it off the wall and go.
It takes a shift in consciousness to mow your lawn with one of these, especially for most Americans who like power and speed, but you will get a healthier lawn and a healthier you after a couple of months with a Brill.
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