Lawnmowers

How Robotic Lawn Mowers Could Revolutionise the Way We Garden

How Robotic Lawn Mowers Could Revolutionise the Way We Garden

Robotic technology is everywhere, even in your back garden. One of the most popular lawnmowers on the market right now is the robot lawnmower. In this blog post, we outline what a robot lawnmower is, how they work, and why they’re proving so popular. What are robot mowers? The robot mower is a self-cut lawn […]

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Why you need to service your lawnmower before the cutting season

Spring is the season in which your garden comes back to life after the cold winter months. As you witness the first few indications that summer is on the way, everything from flower beds to grass lawns begin to grow at a considerable rate. But before you start cutting your lawn this spring, there’s one […]

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How on Earth do Robot Mowers Work?

You wouldn’t necessarily expect the field of lawnmower design to be a place where major technological strides are being made. You’d assume that robotics would be focusing on driverless cars, military drones or household servants before moving into gardening – but you’d be wrong. Autonomous and semiautonomous robotic lawnmowers have been in the market for […]

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Robot Mowers: How Safe Are They?

One of the main reasons that some people are reticent about investing in a robotic lawnmower are concerns over safety and security. Can you really trust a machine enough not to cause damage if you relinquish control over your lawn maintenance? And how do you know that some passing chancer won’t hop over the fence […]

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Honda HRX Lawnmowers : The Honda Guarantee of Quality and Satisfaction

Honda’s founder, Soichiro Honda, was an exacting man by anyone’s standards and once told his employees the following; “We have to aim for 120% product quality. If 99% of the products we make are perfect, that would seem like a pretty good record. However, the customers who become the owners of the remaining 1% will […]

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Hard-working Hayter Harrier Lawnmowers: The Best Of British

The last few decades have not always been glorious ones for the British manufacturing industry. The number of people actually making things (as compared to selling things or selling ideas or selling imaginary money) in the UK has been in steady decline since the 1960s and these days we’re more likely to own products made […]

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Beat The Summer Lawn Drought With An Allett Complete Lawn Care System

The summer is when you’ll most want to use your garden, whether simply relaxing and enjoying the sunshine or hosting a BBQ for friends, relatives and neighbours. But hot, dry summer weather can also leave your lawn stressed and unhealthy, hindering growth or even causing it to go dormant until the autumn. As such it’s […]

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Honda Mulching Lawnmowers: Treat Your Lawn To The Best

Everybody knows that we should be trying to recycle, what with the looming possibility of environmental catastrophe and all. For most people this simply involves sorting out bottles, cardboard and other packaging for the council to pick up fortnightly. But the green-fingered among us know that recycling encompasses far more than just separating glass from […]

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Hayter R53 Recycler Lawnmowers | Mean Green Mulching Machines

You might have heard of mulching. It’s definitely becoming increasingly popular with horticulturalists around the world, professionals and amateurs alike! It’s even been officially recommended by Warwickshire County Council. How many other horticultural processes can say that? More than anything, though, mulching is a brilliant way of recycling grass clippings which also ensures a dependably […]

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A Tradition of Innovation: Honda’s HRX Lawnmowers

HONDA’S REPUTATION FOR INNOVATION is such that whole books have been written about it (see Driving Honda: Inside the World’s Most Innovative Car Company by Jeffrey Rothfeder if you’d like all the juicy details). Here, however, we’ll make do with a brief summary of some of principles behind Honda’s ongoing success. And since here at […]

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Robotic Mowers – The Clean and Green Mowing Machines!

From Isaac Asimov’s concerns about loopholes in the laws of robotics to The Matrix’s SFX-laden Cartesian nightmare, humans have long been anxious about the possibility of a robot apocalypse. But this isn’t fair. If the world is going to end it is far more likely to be the result of something humans have done – […]

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Robot Mowers: Your Little Robotic Gardening Friend

In Hanna-Barbera’s 1960s sci-fi cartoon The Jetsons, the titular family are waited upon by Rosie the Robot Maid. Although originally hired to do the housework, Rosie proved herself to be more than a mere automaton with her caring but stern approach to serving her human masters and eventually became a beloved member of the Jetson […]

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Bosch’s Professional Battery Powered Garden Tools: An Introduction

Bosch has long been a purveyor of some of the world’s leading electric garden tools for hobby gardeners. More recently this has included a variety of exceptional battery-powered tools, incorporating everything from cordless lawnmowers and leaf blowers to the powerful AKE 30 Li cordless chainsaw (as well as cordless grass trimmers, hedgecutters and shears). These […]

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The Honda Way: The Joys of Honda’s HRX Lawnmowers

Honda has a longstanding reputation for doing things “The Honda Way”. This is the name given to the principles which inform all of Honda’s business activities and which all Honda employees are expected to understand. Key to this philosophy are the “three joys” which Honda have identified based on “a commitment to make products of […]

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Bosch’s Rotak Cordless Lawn Mowers Set You Free!

You might not think that your petrol-powered lawnmower could possibly do that much damage to the environment (other than to the grass you are trimming), but various studies have shown that lawnmower emissions can be up to four times as high as those for the average automobile. In other words, using a petrol lawnmower for […]

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Honda IZY: Make it IZY-pIZY to mow your lawn!

It might not be obvious when you see it written down but “IZY” is not pronounced “iz-ee” as in “izzy wizzy let’s get busy” (the magic words often uttered on behalf of popular ursine glove-puppet Sooty by various members of the Corbett family). It is in fact supposed to be pronounced “ee-zee,” as in “easy,” […]

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Bosch Rotak Lawnmowers Make Mowing Easy

Electricity! For millennia now it has fascinated humankind with its awesome power and by allowing us to stick balloons to things with static, though it is only relatively recently that we have come to harness it effectively. But what exactly is electricity good for? If you ask gods like Zeus, Jupiter and Thor they’ll probably […]

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How to Use: A Cylinder Mower

Are you sick of not being able to play a proper game of croquet in your garden? Or perhaps you just pine for a beautiful striped finish on your lawn? Maybe you’ve suddenly and unexpectedly been appointed Head Groundskeeper by the All England Lawn Tennis Club and suddenly need something to help keep the courts […]

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Pixies, Imps and… Spirit Lawnmowers?

Folklore and fiction is full of stories about household spirits – from Scottish brownies to Russian domovoi – which both help and hinder the humans with which they share their homes. There are some other “Spirits”, however, about which folk stories have little to say. These spirits lurk in garden sheds throughout the country, sitting […]

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Stripy Equines & Green Green Grass

Imagine a zebra without its stripes. It’s a sad sight isn’t it? A poor, forlorn white horse-thing ostracised by the other zebras, lacking the natural camouflage of its kind and living in constant fear of lion attacks. Our poor stripe-less friend wanders the savannah alone, feeling a pang of envy every time he stops at […]

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Lawnmower Repairs: How You Can Extend The Life Of Your Mower

You might think that your lawnmower is just something you get out of the shed from time to time and which will – hopefully – work, no matter how much you take care of it. Like everything with moving parts though, things can and will go wrong, particularly if you don’t follow the advice of the manufacturer.

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Which Type Of Lawnmower Will Be Best For You?

Looking to buy a new lawnmower but don’t have a clue where to start? Have no fear; our beginner’s guide to the different types of lawnmowers will be all you need to get your head around the different types on the market.

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The Importance Of Lawnmower Servicing

Lawnmower servicing is a vital part of looking after you machine – read on to find out what you should be doing.

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Winter Lawnmower Prep Will Save You Time and Money In The Spring

Winter can be one of the most beautiful times of the year, but as it’s more than a little chilly, the majority of us probably also spend much less time outside. At this time of year you might well be thinking about tucking your lawnmower up for winter. Before you do, take the time to […]

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