save yourself some time

this mower has saved me hours of work,solid well built and works like a charm. I wish i had bought one of these a long time ago and saved myself lots of work, no more extension cables just pull this out of the shed and my grass is cut in half the time it used to take me and it's really easy to use very light weight and does an excellent job ,cant praise it highly enough get one now you wont regret it.

No more backache :-)

Superb mower, bought yesterday (Homebase) - mowed around 100 square metres plus of short/medium/long grass, some uneven ground. The mower coped with all very well on 3rd lowest setting (of 10). Great mower, very light and handles can be set nice and high so no backache.

Only minor drawback is grass box opening is a bit small for letting cuttings out, but this shouldn't detract you from buying.

GREAT LAWN MOWER

As this was my first time of buying a lawnmower, I decded to check out the Amazon reviews--the reviews on this lawnmower were almost 100% positive and on the strength of those I bought this lawn mower.

I have not been disappointed--it is very light, easy to carry, simple to empty, and efficient at cutting the grass on my uneven small back lawn.

I can highly recommend it for small or medium lawn.

Does what it says on the box

I'm fairly pleased with this mower. I've just completely replanted my large front garden and laid a new turf lawn, so I'm a bit out of practice with the chore of regular mowing.

This is a nice light little thing. You just need to attach the bottom handle with the two self tapping metal screws (this is in theory as I still can't find the relevant holes), fix the top hoop of the handle to the bottom bit with some strange plastic orange wingnuts + bolts and clip on two cable ties. Then you need to whack the two halves of the grassbox together (it takes a bit of effort to line up the lugs). The detatchable handle seems fairly useless as you have to remove it to fit the grassbox onto the machine without any gaps- there's no real point in putting it back on just to tip out the grass.

Don't forget to raise the cutting height from ONE to about midway until you're happy with the cutting height) (I managed to scalp a small section of lawn on the default setting). The height adjuster isn't the easiest of things to alter initially- you have to push in one direction and then yank it at 90 degrees until you get the right number setting. Once you've settled on your cutting height that should be the last wrestling match you have with it though. (Review update- it actually seems a lot looser after a few goes but my slightly uneven turf was a little bare when after a few weeks I finally selected level 3).

This version has the little orange fins on each side which are supposed to allow you to cut up right to the edge- as compared to the finless 34C version- hence the price difference.

So I was just after a cheapish mower with some reliability. Lightness helps too when I'm carrying it up and down the steps to the garden. Technically I suppose you should go for the widest mower going in the range- the faster you cut the less electricity you use overall (and the sooner you can be lounging out sipping Pimms?). Still I was impressed at how quickly it finished the job, once I'd set it up and got used to the old cable over the shoulder routine.

Wonderful

I had had a Flymo for 3 years and was fed up with the poor quality of cut, the difficulty of handling it especially on slopes, the difficulty of carrying it through the garage to the front and that a good portion of the grass didn't find its way into the box but was re-distributed over the garden. So I bought a Bosch Rotak 36 from Amazon. It arrived on the morning promised and was easy to assemble (including the grass box). It is light and has a convenient carrying handle. It is easy to use. The biggest benefit is the quality of the cut. My lawns look professional for the first time in years and it does cut right to the edge as promised. Wonderful. The only disadvantage is that I have to make more trips to the compost heap with the cuttings as it cuts and collects far more than the Flymo ever did... Fully recommended.

Bosch Rotak 320 - Excellent Product

I had a flymo for 3 years which I found poor. It was hard work to push it around and it did not cut the lawn well.
So I thought I would give the Rotak a go. It takes a short while to assemble (it is very easy) and the first thing I found was that it is very light. I found it very easy to mow the lawn. It is quieter than the flymo and easier to push and cuts beautifully. I was really surprised that I was able to do the whole lawn in 15 minutes which had previously taken nearer to an hour.
Afterwards it is easy to clean. I am pleased with my purchase.

A real time saver

I bought this at the weekend, very sceptical having read the different reviews but I can honestly say its probably going to save me 4 times the mount of time it would have taken to clean my blocked drive with just the lance, where there is a lot of moss in between bricks you will have to go over a few times to get it up but its hardly hard work!

The best time saving device I have bought for a long time..

A Knee Saver

My wife bought me one and I find it robust, well made and designed, and is obviously durable. A real boon for planting out, weeding and so many DIY jobs -- a marvellous help for a retired OAP.

Excellent Garden Hegde Trimmer

I bought this from Amazon it was free delivery and delivered on time. The Trimmer is excellent, trims really thick branches, also has long reach. Very powerful and easy to use. Would recommend to anyone as good value for less than £60

Flymo Favourite with Stripes On

Easy to use electric lawnmower with hand adjustable blade (no tools required) which cuts through the longest,toughest,wettest grass quite easily.It is easy to lift,with a handle suitably placed on top to allow easy carrying. The roller provides nice"lines" in the lawn for a more professional look. The grass box is large enough and can contain quite a lot of grass before emptying. If I have to be critical,the only problems I have encountered were the initial assembly of the grass box ( it was fiddly) and the electric cable was shorter than I expected. Apart from these two very minor glitches, its an excellent lawnmower for the price,and looks good too!

Recomended

Does exactly what it says on the tin ,easy to use ,quite powerful for a cordless tool.
Ordered it on 20.5.08 on supersaver delivery received it on the 22.5.08 hows that for service!!.

Lovely economical design, but comprimises cutting

Their are many good and bad points to be noted about this mower. After replacing my good old Flymo after many years of solid use, I ordered this new model to replace it and was suprised at the great simple design that leads to fewer parts, less weight (its very light!) and a simpler operation inside the motor-casing.

But theirs a flaw. While all this nice light plastic and and small design features make life (and the environment) nicer, Flymo have in turn made the blades plastic too. Oh dear. And to make matter's worse, they didn't even think on to making them out of a tough plastic. The result is that after just 3 months, I'm already on to my next set of blades.

Though to call them blades is actually quite laughable; their just thin, long plastic-shaped pieces, not much longer than your index finger. And theirs only 2 of them. If like me you have a garden that, although seemingly healthy and lush, likes to grow lots of thick stemmed grass and the odd bad patch, this mower is NOT ideal. Yes the blades cut it nice and evenly, but depth? Not a patch on my old metal-bladed Flymo, which cut the crass down to the ground.

It's a shame that a great concept is flawed by it's own design, but this is only in the case of my garden. We all have different types of grass, and it's fair to say that on a nice land with beautiful soft and thin grass, this mower would be ideal. But for some reason, we don't have that type of grass up north, so after this set of blades it's bye-bye Flymo!

Good for light to medium work

If you are just trying to keep a well organised garden in trim, this is a great little strimmer - not powerful enough for tackling overgrown bush and stringy weeds, but fine for trimming the grass on edgings and paths. A few other reviewers have complained about having to push the button to advance the line. I don't find this a problem really, just tap the strimmer lightly down on your garden path or any firm surface whilst the motor is running and presto, it's done - you'll hear a pitch change down in the buzzing sound as the line grows longer. No strimmer line will last forever, especially if you are strimming near brick edgings where it wears away pretty fast. By the way, the blade is there to standardise the length of the line as it advances. I've had experience of the brutishly powerful strimmers in South Africa ("WeedEaters" as they are called) which can easily severe a hand from an arm. One of these, this is not... but then we are fighting a bit of grass over here in the UK, not semi-grown trees and the occasional cobra!

Gain with no pain

What a great little gadget. It is lightweight, fun and really effective. As I got older I had progressed from two handled shears to one handed shears (which were much easier) but found that I was getting blisters when edging the lawn in my small garden. I find strimmers much too noisy and fierce so this Bosch tool was the next step and I am very pleased that I made the purchase. I don't have any problem with bending at the waist so am very happy just to have the hand held version without the telescopic handle.

I didn't purchase the shrub trimmer as I mostly have climbers and bedding plants but would certainly do so if my garden design changed.