Wide choice of various lawn-mowers can nonplus the beginning plot owner. Correctly to decide on what model is necessary to you, it is necessary to understand, than they differ and what shortcomings and advantages are had.
All lawn-mowers can be separated into several types, being guided or by engine type, or by the principle of operation of blades. The first classification more widespread and in it is much more than variations.
Mechanical models
Mechanical models have been thought up very first and, despite technical progress, still are popular. Their undoubted advantages – the low cost, long term of operation, simplicity and profitability in service, they do not consume either fuel, or the expensive electric power. Such type of lawn-mowers is ideal for those who care for environment ecology. One more undoubted plus of such models is that they work silently.
Unfortunately, mechanical models have also minuses. The main is that bevelling of grass, especially high and damp, demands from the operator of considerable physical efforts. Mechanical lawn-mowers rather bulky and heavy. However if you have small well-groomed flat site in several hundred parts and you are well developed physically, all these defects become insignificant.
Lawn-mowers with the gasoline engine
Petrol lawn-mowers are considered as the most popular, at the same time they can be most expensive than other types of mowers. Thirst of mobility forces not to stint owners of lawns, this type of the engine allows to move with the lawn-mower on long distances. Besides the power of these units allows them to process for only one pass about lawn width half a meter. For the rest, it is worth recognizing, petrol lawn-mowers are assemblage of shortcomings – they noisy, moving behind them to you it is necessary to breathe exhaust gases, it is impossible to call the gasoline engine lung, besides it demands periodic refueling and also permanent care. The manual starter can become one more minus of the petrol lawn-mower – to you it is necessary to pull sharply and powerfully for its cord to start the gasoline engine, and it can be problem for weak women and elderly people. The decision is the electronic ignition key, but models equipped with it, much more expensively.
During the inaccurate work with the starter of the petrol lawn-mower it can periodically stall, and its restart will become serious problem for inexperienced users.
Electric models
Electric lawn-mowers are simple in leaving, are almost silent, but at the same time their main shortcoming is that the territory subject to them is limited to length of the cord conducting to the socket. Many are afraid of mowers with the electric engine because of possibility of defeat by current and it is quite well-founded fear if your site is located in the damp area. For this reason in instructions to such mowers there is obligatory warning that it is impossible to cut the grass after rain or watering. At all these minuses the electric mowers also differ in low power though they, of course, are much more powerful than the mechanical fellows and do not demand application of considerable physical efforts at mowing. Bevel width at such units reaches 50 centimeters.
Choosing the electric lawn-mower, give preference to what have blocker on the lock, it will not allow the unit to join before you are ready to work.
Lawn-mowers on accumulators
Lawn-mowers combine with the accumulator in themselves a number of the advantages inherent in other types of mowers. They are as maneuverable as equipped with the gasoline engine, they at the same time are also not too exacting in leaving, are silent and eco-friendly as their mechanical and electric competitors. Big minus of such models is that them you can process rather small area, in 20-30 minutes of work they will demand long recharge.
Other types of lawn-mowers
Lawn-mowers also happen the manual and equipped wheels, the last are divided into jog and self-propelled. It is natural that mechanical models do not differ with variety here, that is they can be only on wheels and work with pushes, and here all other types will allow you to make choice. For example, some self-propelled lawn-mowers are fine the fact that they have variable speed, so, you can adjust them according to the speed of your movement. Minus of such models is that they figure prominently and weigh much. The lawn-mowers equipped with wheels, wheel and seat are equated to mini-tractors. Also lawn-mowers can be cylindrical, rotor and rotary. The last usually have no wheels and it is good to mow with them sites near the house, fences, beds with high border. Cylindrical lawn-mowers are suitable for wide plain surfaces, giving ideally equal lawn. Rotor models should be bought by that at whom on sites the rigid grass, and the site uneven, kochkovaty grows. To lawn-mowers boxes for grass can fasten. On the one hand they can save you from work with rake, with another – they will demand periodic visits to compost pit to remove their contents.