Gardena's Easy-to-Use Home Grass Cutter
This pretty little powder blue number is kind of toy-like in appearance, or perhaps rather like those trolleys you can buy for suitcases. But as the blurb says, it is in fact a hand cylinder lawnmower, better known as a reel mower in some parts of the world, including America. It is manufactured by the British company Gardena and is available all over the world.
Designed specifically for cutting grass and lawn areas in private gardens up to about 100 square metres or about 1 100 square feet, the manufacturers boast that you will achieve a precision mowing job as you would if you were to use shears. Cutting a lawn with shears would be so laborious though, it’s doubtful how precise the final result would be.
Other advantages, they say, are that it runs very smoothly and is quiet, saving the user effort. The cutting technique is what they call “contact-free” because the cylinder and the bottom blade don’t touch each other. Working widths and adjustment heights are given in metric measurements. The working or cutting width is 300 mm (about 11 ins) and the cutting height may be adjusted from 12 mm to 42 mm (about .5 ins to 1.6 ins). As lightweight as it looks, it weighs 7.6 kg or less than 17 lbs.
The manufacturers advise that you use the mower with a grass collecting bag so that you don’t have to rake up all the cut grass when you’ve finished mowing. But this is an optional accessory and will cost you a little more to add it on. Still it sounds like a good idea that should make your life a whole lot easier. I wonder what color the grass catcher is!
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