Hand Lawnmowers
Throw away your petrol cans and wrap
up your electric cables! if you opt for a hand lawnmower you certainly
wont be needing them.
Due
to their simple design, hand lawnmowers are lightweight, easy
to use, and cheap.
As the mower is manually pushed along, the wheels drive
gears which rapidly spin a cylinder mechanism, shearing the grass in
a scissor-like motion. Hand lawnmowers tend to be very manoueverable
making them particulary good for dealing with small to medium sized
lawns.
No electric cables or hot petrol
engines makes mowing the lawn childs play. In fact, with hand
lawnmowers being so safe and easy to use, why not get your children to
do
the work? A hand mower gives you peace of mind that children
can earn their pocket money in a safe environment, with minimum
supervision.
Hand lawnmowers offer the additional benefit of being wireless, so are
particularly useful for remote lawns, where an external power supply is
a
problem.
However, if you have a large lawn then a hand lawnmower is perhaps not
the
ideal solution for you. Hand lawnmowers generally have a smaller
cutting
width, which means they take longer to get the job done, especially on
large
gardens.
If you're looking for a basic hand mower, you can't go far wrong with
the Qualcast Panther. It comes in two models: The Qualcast Panther 30
and the Qualcast
Panther 380. The 30 model has a cutting width of 30cm,
and a grassbox capacity of 20 litres, the 380 is slightly larger, with
a cutting width of 38cm and a grass box capacity of 25 litres.
Hand Lawnmower Comparison
The Relative Performance Score (RP
Score) gives an indication of the
lawnmower performance (in terms of weight, grass box capacity, cutting
width, and engine/motor power) when compared against other lawnmowers
in the same class.
For a full explaination of the RP Score, click here.
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for you?
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