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Hi Peter
I have had one of these for 18 months. Had to get the belt changed after a year as it was about to ping but was due a service anyway. So it has been very reliable, no surprise really as it is a very solid well built machine but this makes it a little heavy and bulky.
It has been my main mower for that time and some days used all day long continually and has never let me down.
I would get rid of the standard blade that comes with it and put on either the highlife blade or the mulch blade if mulching as both leave a much better finish and the high lift blade will pack the bag every time unless really wet long grass.
I would give this mower the thumbs up but I haven't been blessed with trying lots of different mowers so my experience is limited.
Hope this helps
James, thanks appreciated! Can you remember how much the high lift and mulch blades were? Thanks Peter
Not cheap, if I can remember off the top of my head around £40 - £50.
Mulching blade from Fr jones and the highlift was from weibang directly.
I have 2 AL-KO 4 in 1 machines, great pick up in the wet, packs the solid box, mulches great, side discharge spits out knee high stuff. They plough through everything. Never had a problem in 7 years apart from a drive cable
,belts and bearings.
German design, Austrian build, parts easily available and not chinese.
I would highly recommend at a good price. Only downside not as quick as I would like.
I'm a massive fan of Weibang. I currently own a Virtue 53 SSD. Shaft drive. It's by far and away the best mower I've ever owned. Although Weibas in general are heavier than other brands.
I used to own the SV50 but it had a slight problem. It would smoke like crazy from time to time. This was a known fault on the earlier ones I think. But Weibang customer service is truly amazing. Within 48hrs of me reporting the issue to Weibang I had a brand new replacement machine free of charge.
Id of thought by now any issues they may have had with the SV50 would have been well sorted by now. I certainly would have no hesitation in reccomending Weibang to anyone. Just remember to order the high lift blade with it. That makes all the difference.
Still a long way behind the good old mowers but I'd say best of a bad bunch. Mine is 2yr old and no issues yet unlike it's predecessor
What puts off is having to swap blades between collecting and mulching, the hrx,s we run we can go from one job to the other without this faff
You don't need to swap blades. Weibang do a dedicated mulching blade. But you can just stick the mulching plug in and use the normal blade.
Adrian says you do need to change blades?
I disagree. Obviously a dedicated mulching blade would be better if that what you want to do. But there is absolutely nothing stopping you from just sticking the mulch plug in with a standard or high lift blade if you want.
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