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Got a mountfield 505 rear roller petrol, bought for one weekly 1hr job as fed up of mauling a hayter 56 pro around a smallish lawn. Bought it as the back chute is fairly wide and it does collect well in the wet. Variable speed pulley, no bbc. It's not a honda and whether it would stand daily use I doubt but it was not honda money but for what we use it for quite happy. Can't see the appeal of battery and will never buy amy battery kit bit ha ho.
Not familiar with that model, have used only battery mowers for over 10 years now, which works well for me BUT would advise, that in less than ideal conditions especially, you need a LOT of batteries to be able to go out doing jobs with them
which ones do you use?
couple of (now discontinued) Bosch models GRA53 and 43Li, plus a Stihl RMA and a Stihl mulching one. Some of the Bosch have a rear roller but due to their light weight the stripes they leave are weak
Assume you are aware Stiga and Mountfield are identical apart from colour? And it is the 950 e twin clip you are looking at £999 which inc 2 x 7.5 amp/hr batts. Have a good friend who are dealers and have the Mountfield version which they use on their own lawn, so will tell me the truth! Run time is anything from 1 to 2hrs depending on conditions. It runs 2 batteries at the same time, spare batteries are £225 each so £450 for one spare set , guess you may struggle to do a full days work on 4 batteries? Charge time 3.5 hrs. Starting to look expensive! The 7.5 batteries will not fit directly into other Mountfield/Stiga kit but need to be in a holster/ backpack with a lead to the machine. I really can't see what you are gaining here when the petrol machine is £150 less with none of the hassle and expense of spare batteries. Be interested on your thoughts/reasons.
Hi Peter thanks for the reply.
reason for wanting to find a battery mower is that I've now gone full battery with only the mower left that's petrol.
stiga was just one that turned up when I googled battery 19" roller mowers. Didn't look any further into them from there. So I thought I'd ask on this forum for any hands on experience.
idealy stihl would do one that would fit my 500s batteries then I would t have the expense of more batteries from another brand. Doesn't sound like there's much choice at the moment for roller battery mowers. 3.5 hrs to charge isn't going to work for the trade. I've had the honda ones for the last 25yrs and usually get a good 10yrs out of them. With a high lift blade I think they take some beating.
maybe one day stihl will make a 19" battery roller mower that will be as good as the Honda is?? Or maybe they won't ??
Hayter do a 19 inch rear roller cordless with variable speed, we had the petrol version and it was absolutely useless in damp conditions never mind wet. The chute is too narrow and the deck design all wrong sold it and replaced it with the mountfield previously mentioned which is good in the wet and less money. Guess the battery Hayter will have a similar set up to the petrol one? Hayter use the Toro 60v battery system. Hayter only offer a miserly 3 month warranty for pro use on that machine.
Stihl do make a 19 battery mower, not sure if you know. I've no idea if it's good though!
There is the Stihl model as Edward mentioned, the RMA 448 RV. We have a Stihl battery mower as part of our fleet which is really nice to use, but we wouldn't use it all day every day. Ours is not a roller one and that roller one is on the AK platform which is the more domestic range of batteries as opposed to the AP range which our mower is part of.