Those times when potato beds were the main decoration of the seasonal dacha or territory around owner-occupied dwelling, have passed long ago. Today and summer residents, and those who live in country house are concerned by issues of landscaping and how to make the territory around the house beautiful and well-groomed. One of easy ways to reach it arrangement of lawn is, but behind it leaving which can be facilitated by means of the lawn-mower is surely necessary.
What lawn-mowers happen
Beautiful well-groomed lawn – result of laborious, continuous work and, first of all, that the grass well grew and looked beautifully, it needs hairstyle. For care for lawns buy lawn-mowers which are electric and petrol. If the area of lawn is small and there is opportunity to connect it garden stock in network, it is possible to use the inexpensive electric lawn-mower, but in other cases it is more reasonable to get petrol.
This type of lawn-mowers differs in the bigger power and performance, but they more noisy and their weight is more as except the motor you carry with yourself and the container with gasoline. And here the wheel version of the petrol lawn-mower allows to avoid dragging of weights and does care for lawn by pleasant walk during which you, almost without using the efforts, put the site in order. Self-propelled petrol lawn-mowers are easy to control and women also will perfectly cope with it and those to whom physical activities are contraindicated – move they, and you need to direct them only slightly.
Petrol self-propelled lawn-mowers are irreplaceable in big squares, they have no supply cable which provision it is necessary to monitor all the time, they can be used on any removal from the house. These advantages force to forget about such shortcomings as big lot, noisy work and need of special service: to fill in and change gasoline, to watch its quantity in tank, to clean the engine. The main nodes of self-propelled units is the body, the platform on wheels, the operating handle, knives, the grass collector which has equipped the majority of models now.
In the majority of models the gasoline engine is not closed by completely protection cover, it becomes to provide effective air-cooling and to facilitate technical maintenance.
What needs to be known, choosing the petrol lawn-mower
The market of this garden equipment is provided by the instrument of domestic, Chinese, Japanese and American production. It is necessary to buy the lawn-mower taking into account technical characteristics, features of use of each brand and, naturally, operating conditions – the size and relief of the site of the territory in which it will be used.
Consider that self-propelled petrol lawn-mowers are quite exacting to relief – it has to be rather equal and not have inclination higher than 20-25 degrees as otherwise oil mix with gasoline which is used as fuel can flow from tank. When choosing pay attention to such parameters as the bevelling width on which unit performance, and hairstyle height depends, it has to have continuous adjustment. It is important that width and diameter of wheels have been picked up so that not to injure lawn surface. Special nozzles which go together with it in set or which can be bought separately will help to expand functionality of the lawn-mower. In basic equipment all similar lawn-mowers are equipped with the grass collector and function of mulching – simultaneous crushing of mowed grass which then is used as fertilizer for vegetable cultures and for the same lawn.
Merits and demerits of self-propelled petrol lawn-mowers
As well as other lawn-mowers with the petrol drive, self-propelled are characterized by the high performance which is provided by the increased power – for 1 working hours you will be able to mow grass on several dozen square meters. Installation of engines of the increased power became possible thanks to availability of the moving platform, in this case you should not drag them on the shoulders. Self-propelled lawn-mowers do not depend on external source of power supply and are not connected with it, are mobile and ergonomic, make bevelling independently – the person needs only to set the necessary moving direction. Bags for collecting the mown grass or its back emission prevent hit of branches and blades in eyes, increasing safety of operation.
To the additional functions capable to increase comfort of work with the unit, it is possible to carry also the electric starter significantly facilitating engine start.
It is possible to refer availability of exhaust gases and high cost to shortcomings. But it is possible to note that work in the fresh air allows not to catch smell of the burned-down gasoline, and as for cost, here it is necessary to choose between the price and the increased comfort. One more minus is the maintainability – to ensure also further safety of operation of the self-propelled petrol lawn-mower, its repair, in case of breakage, it is necessary to entrust only professionals who have not only special purpose tools, but also special control instrumentation, such, for example, as the tachometer and the compressometer.