This is a review that’s taken me a while. Not only did I want to test this thing out a few times first, but I honestly didn’t know how to begin saying how delighted we are with this purchase.

We’ve recently moved to a house with front and rear gardens that are both bigger than average. Although not all of it is grass, most is shrubs and trees, I’d estimate that the lawan covers around 350 sq meters in total, possibly a little more. I’m playing fast and loose with the word ‘lawn’ to be fair. It was really just rough unneven ground with overgrown grass.

Anyway, our old petrol mower had been on it’s last legs for a long time and stuggled to cut the small patch of flat grass we left behind. We knew it had no chance of dealing with our new place. We researched for ages and were initially looking for another petrol mower, but the prospect of having to keep topping it up, oiling, cleaning and general maintainance had been a real pain with the old one. The thought of electric wires stretching across the garden for a mains powered mower was out of the question, unreeling 60 or 70 meters of cord and having to drag it all over the place didn’t give me feelings of delight.

We started looking at battery powered cordless mowers as a ‘plan C’ option, but surely they’d be rubbish compared to mains or petrol? After long thought and much discussion we opted to try this Einhell cordless and it’s turned out to be one of the best purchase decisions we’ve made. It’s absolutley fantastic. In fact, it’s so good that we’ve now bought the 36v power-x brushcutter and the power-x 36v hedge trimmer as well, and we are just as delighted with them. The 36v brushcutter / scythe in particular as simply fantastic. Just to add, we did pay for all our Einhell gear ourselves. We’ve not been given anything and haven’t been offered any incentives in exchange for a review.

Our grass was well overgrown, probably around 15 to 20 cms, and we expected to have to strim the whole area first but we hadn’t yet bought the strimmer. I did carefully go over the area with a rake to make sure there were no hidden nasty rocks, but that was the only prep I did. Having set up the mower I gave it a whirl with my fingers crossed. It sparked into life and within seconds I was astounded by how good this thing is. It easily cut all our grass on the max cut hight setting on one charge. Einhell say on the box that it’ll cut 600 sq meters on a single charge. If your lawn is absolutley perfect with short grass I can well imagine that to be true. It dealt with the rough, dense bits with relative ease and only cut out once.

The instructions say that the mulching attachment can only be used when the grass is already short, but I got sick and tired of having to rake the grass up with the old mower so decided to use the mulch attachment from the start without expecting miracles. It was honestly faultless. The grass clippings were well chopped down and just looked like a thin layer of the mulch left after raking. The old petrol mower always left big piles of messy cuttings that took ages to rake up and dispose of, this Einhell mower leaves nothing but a lovely looking lawn. Absolutely no piles of grass clippings anywhere. Our whole garden trimmed down, front and back, no grass to collect or grass box to empty. After finishing front and back lawns there was still power left in the batteries which I found almost unbelievable. It took only 30 mins to recharge them back to full and I could then lower the cut hight and give the entire area a much closer and neater trim. I am one incredibly happy bunny.

I’m no gardening expert and I’ve no desire to be a lawnmower guru, you may know a lot more than me and you might not like this little machine. I just want to quickly drag out the mower, cut the grass in the shortest possible time without the hassle of filling it with petrol or filling the bin with grass cuttings, and then get back to watching TV and having a cold beer. This machine is a dream for me, I wish I’d bought one years ago. I used to dread cutting the grass, now it’s actually quite pleasant and I can’t believe I’m saying that!

Pro Points:

1) Excellent cut with easily adjustable hight. The handle to achieve this is a doddle to use.

2) It’s far more powerful and capable than I ever thought it would be. It’s chopped through very small branches that I’d missed!

3) The wheels are large enough to make pushing it a breeze. It’s light and easy to get around.

4) Battery life is amazing. Give both a full charge and mine just runs and runs. I thoroughly expected to get only 50% of the life we’re actually getting. The machine easily does our front and back on a single charge. Having said this, we probably will invest in spares when we buy more Einhell gear.

5) The grass box, if you want to use it, is huge. I have tried it and it works wonderfully. If you want your lawn to look perfect then I guess you’d be collecting everything and disposing of it. I don’t bother, I just use the mulching attachment because I’m lazy and can’t be bothered with clippings. It works wonders for me.

6) The handle is comfortable and very supportive with a foam grip. I’ve not once felt tired or struggled with the mower in use. Our old petrol mower left me feeling like I’d been arm wrestling with a gorilla.

7) The mulching attachment is superb. The fine ‘chop’ of the grass leaves everything looking wonderful.

Not so pro points:

There’s nothing at all that I don’t like but just a few things to be aware of.

1) The instruction manual for putting it together is a nightmare. Look at the pictures on the box if you get stuck trying to follow them.

2) At first I thought the construction felt a bit flimsy, but once put together it’s a very strong and capable machine. The fact that it’s mainly a plastic body is an advantage for me, in that it won’t rust like our old one did.

3) Our garden was rough, really seriously rough, so during the first ever use the main bars that connect the handle to the mower came undone. After tightening them it was fine. I did consider using thick plastic tie wraps to hold the bars in place but now I’ve used the machine a few times with the grass shorter I’m more than happy with it as it is. I can’t possibly fault Einhell for this, it’s just down to the ground this machine is used on.

All in all we’re delighted with this purchase. I’m a lazy gardener looking for shortcuts and the quick way to get back to the TV, but I do suspect that if you’re a perfectionist who wants a superb looking flat lawn this machine may just fit the bill for you. Highly recommended.

Convient pour les petites pelouses, très maniable, légère et avec une fonction mulching. Les batteries se chargent rapidement. Excellent produit.

Arrived very quickly, very easy to assemble. I bought this mower to use whilst my usual mower was under repair and I could not let the grass remain uncut in the interim. It does not have the cutting width of my other mower, but it is so easy to use, and the grass box holds more than I thought. It is lightweight, but gives a good cut. The battery life is decent, a good 40 minutes, and, while I do have to recharge them, as I have large lawns, the charging does not take too long. It is also incredibly quiet Easy to start too. I am very impressed with this machine.

un buon prodotto leggero ed anche potente con 2 livelli di velocità che si attivano automaticamente quando trova dei cespugli più grandi da tagliare, peccato per il cestello in plastica, da non caricare troppo perchè si rompe alla maniglia. Errore mio di averlo caricato troppo, si consiglia di svuotarlo più volte. Le batterie hanno un ottima durata. Utilizzato anche su pendi e con il mulching, semplice ed efficace.