The Great Big Lawnmower Thread

It would, but they're a pith, you'll cut the cable sooner or later, that's if it doesn't internally fracture from flexing at the entry point, requiring opening up of the cable terminator, cutting back and rewiring. Oddly enough, I had to do this very fiddly repair on a corded electric chainsaw yesterday, which gets reasonable annual use. I've managed over the years not to cut it, but the flexing fractured one conducter at the entry point. Swmbo has cut the cable on her small corded electric hedge trimmer, again requiring terminator point rewiring, jointing not a good idea.

One of the family uses a 34cm cordless on about 70 m2 rear garden, tears around it, mower is light and handy and can be lifted onto/over other stuff in his tiny shed. You can use the batteries in a matching strimner also. Check out B&Q too, Diy.com

WORX bundle on the same site looks decent, two batteries, always handy to have as you can have one charging.

Big cut Small money, the 56cm Proplus is a robust no nonsense machine with an Alloy deck and a big B&S engine, and backed by a proper distributor. This one is €100 less than most other dealers at €599

Yes, but it won't be cut finer or forced under the cut surface, and most will sit on top going brown until your next cut, where it will be chopped into unsightly dry fluffy clumps. The only advantage is that the mower won't be as strained as it would attempting to cut and mulch overly long grass with a mulch plugged deck. If grass growth gets ahead of you, you have to bag and remove it until you can resume the shorter frequent mulch cutting intervals. Powerful zero turn mulchers are the best at thrashing overlong growth into pulp, which quickly withers and falls below the cut surface. A deflector tends to create a sward of longer grass sitting on top, like a mini meadow.

TYPICAL DEFLECTOR ACCESSORY WITH THE 'BAG PRESENT' INTERLOCK SWITCH CONTACT ARM.

Meanwhile, get a bit of flat metal or hammer a soft bent nail flat, or a flat screwdriver. That will turn the ignition, there are no tumblers in those ignition switches.

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Yep, half the price of the mower new. Did the grand include fitting? The same mower with steel deck and single speed drive is... €1000! Brand new. I doubt there's a pattern part available that does the same job. Chances of finding a used one cheap are slim. Perhaps convert it to the manual single speed box, if you can get a used one all the better, get a few more years out of it.

With till all the electric car owners have to pay half the car new price for a replacement battery after 7-8 years, scrap yards will be busy.

First check that the deck belt is not broken or thrown off the pulley.

Check that the grass bag is fully closed and pressing in the interlock switch.

As you can hear clicking, it sounds like the blade clutch relay switch is attempting to power the clutch solenoid. (on the 5112z, power to the clutch is directly fron the blade switch i think, I'm not sure if there is an intervening relay). You'll need to check that 12v is being supplied to the clutch, or find out where it's going missing. I'm not sure if there is a fuse online with this clutch supply. There may be. You'll need to take a multimeter to it. The grassbag switch generally knocks of the clutch, so that one first.

2. Heat it before you straighten, then reverse it as per 3. If there's even the smallest crack, angle grind the piece off, repeat for the other two blades. Do it accurately to keep it balanced.