The wild flowers of No Mow May being long gone, this is the first cut of the year of my Keswick “meadow”. My new Flymo is a larger electric hover with a 35cm blade rather than the 24cm of the one that’s pretty much worn out already: this isn’t a suburban lawn patch. The new mower has a roller at the front to assist the hover.
Very happy with it, it’s a bit heavier but that’s worth it because it cuts at the first or second pass rather than needing multiple jabs at an area. And a lot easier to manage than the two-stroke petrol equivalent I worked with as a teenager in Long Ashton, Bristol in the Seventies.
1970s 2-stroke hover mower (web image)