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Need some advice chaps.
I have a 5 year old Mountfield 1640H lawn tractor which I use to mow the 70m x 40m front lawn and the fairly steep back lawn which is about 40m x 20m and requires quite a bit of mowing agility to get around various fruit trees etc.
Yesterday I managed to mow over an iron pole that I has stupidly left lying in the grass resulting in a me breaking one of the blade bosses on the tractor.
The thing is - I bloody hate the Mountfield. It just does not work well. It wont pick up grass if it is a bit long or damp, the sensors on it are flaky meaning it often won't start, the mower deck often won't start and over all it basically makes my blood boil. It also carves stipes in to my sloped back garden because the cutting deck is not suspended like on my old Countax C600h - so when the tractor is on a slope it tilts and the downhill side of the cutting deck cuts way lower than the uphill side.
Basically it is crap. Looks good, but crap.
So, now that I have mangled the blade I am wondering if I should trade it in against something else that I might actually not hate.
I had convinced myself that I need a tractor that cuts and collect rather than mulches but maybe I am wrong. I really don't want lines of grass trimmings everywhere so whatever I get needs to leave the lawn looking really tidy.
One issue - I live in Scotland where the grass is dry about 3 times a year, so any replacement will need to cope with damp grass.
Question: are these "out front" cutting mowers good enough to mulch so the cuttings are effectively invisible? I presume they must be given their price and popularity. I have seen a couple of second hand Stiga mowers that look good. One of them, an ancient 16 year one even has 4wd which might be a god send for my sloped back lawn.
Does anyone have one and if so are they any good?
What would you do? Fix the hateful Mountfied and just live with the fact that is not very good, or chuck a load of cash at a very old but "better" mower?
Feels mad to lob £3k at a 16 year old Stiga or similar but I'm really not sure I can live with the s
t plastic Mountfied for much longer - life is too short (and my grass it too long!)
I have a 5 year old Mountfield 1640H lawn tractor which I use to mow the 70m x 40m front lawn and the fairly steep back lawn which is about 40m x 20m and requires quite a bit of mowing agility to get around various fruit trees etc.
Yesterday I managed to mow over an iron pole that I has stupidly left lying in the grass resulting in a me breaking one of the blade bosses on the tractor.
The thing is - I bloody hate the Mountfield. It just does not work well. It wont pick up grass if it is a bit long or damp, the sensors on it are flaky meaning it often won't start, the mower deck often won't start and over all it basically makes my blood boil. It also carves stipes in to my sloped back garden because the cutting deck is not suspended like on my old Countax C600h - so when the tractor is on a slope it tilts and the downhill side of the cutting deck cuts way lower than the uphill side.
Basically it is crap. Looks good, but crap.
So, now that I have mangled the blade I am wondering if I should trade it in against something else that I might actually not hate.
I had convinced myself that I need a tractor that cuts and collect rather than mulches but maybe I am wrong. I really don't want lines of grass trimmings everywhere so whatever I get needs to leave the lawn looking really tidy.
One issue - I live in Scotland where the grass is dry about 3 times a year, so any replacement will need to cope with damp grass.
Question: are these "out front" cutting mowers good enough to mulch so the cuttings are effectively invisible? I presume they must be given their price and popularity. I have seen a couple of second hand Stiga mowers that look good. One of them, an ancient 16 year one even has 4wd which might be a god send for my sloped back lawn.
Does anyone have one and if so are they any good?
What would you do? Fix the hateful Mountfied and just live with the fact that is not very good, or chuck a load of cash at a very old but "better" mower?
Feels mad to lob £3k at a 16 year old Stiga or similar but I'm really not sure I can live with the s
t plastic Mountfied for much longer - life is too short (and my grass it too long!)Why not let technology do the work for you? There are loads of this type of thing available now and they work very well:
https://uk.lymow.com/products/lymow-one-plus-robot...
https://uk.lymow.com/products/lymow-one-plus-robot...
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