Customer Reviews:
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 A green consumer July 19, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I got this mower because I like the idea of not adding to the pollution problem. It lives up to that all right, but doesn't exactly deliver when it comes to a clean cut. My lawn is hybrid Bermuda, which is thick and about as tough as grass can get. I raise my power mower deck to 3" in the summer to protect the grass from drought. At a little over 2", this mower isn't quite high enough for a Bermuda lawn. Forget about twigs, the grass alone can stop the blades! Also, the cut was nowhere near as clean as with my power mower. I gave up after an hour and used the power mower to finish the lawn. Once the lawn was cut I found that I could get this mower to work reasonably well if I set it to its maximum height. I also found that lubricating the blades with WD-40 is essential. Overall, this mower is not great, but is not bad either. It won't completely replace my power mower, but I'll use it in late fall and winter when I mow the grass at a lower height.
 Great mower May 2, 2006
Patrick W. Heffron (Milton, MA United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I just started using it, but it works great. I was weary about the reviews of twigs stopping the mower, but I purchased anyway and thought I could rake the lawn since I have lots of overhanging trees and branches/twigs. I didn't rake, I just picked up anything big. The mover does get stopped by larger twigs, but only if moving slow. I just backed it up and gave it a shove and no more twig. I mowed the whole lawn and couldn't mind a branch I couldn't mow through. Plus - no gas, no noise, no fumes, great exercise. I'm extremely pleased.
just o.k. May 7, 2003
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is very hard to push for a woman. Also, it doesn't cut these long spikey things that shoot up out of my fescue. It worked fine in the early spring before the grass thickened up.
Good Mower August 24, 2005
Dennis L. Trinkle (Madison, WI USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am quite pleased with the mower. If one does not expect the mower to act like a gas-powered mower, then it is pretty smooth sailing. The other comments are correct that sticks will stop it dead, but they are easily removed by backing up. Some peskier weeds may have to be approached from multiple angles to cut them down, but this hassle seems worth it when one does not have to endure the fumes and noise of a gas-powered mower.
Clean and quiet April 26, 2004
Nancy Mannikko (Omaha, NE)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
We just bought this lawn mower. I love it. It's easy to use, and cuts as well as any gas-powered mower we've ever owned. Our yard is far from perfect, thanks to a dog that loved to dig, and the mower worked fine. It's clean, quiet, and, best of all, no worries about shrapnel from a mower blade picking and throwing rocks or other debris. I was wondering how it would handle the twigs that a Siberian elm seems to shed constantly, but it never jammed. I was able to cut our yard in the same amount of time it took the neighbor to do his with a power mower, and never broke a sweat. I did have to make a couple second passes over the dandelions -- the reel tended to push tall stuff down rather than slicing them off cleanly the first time -- but that's a minor inconvenience.
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