HAYTER MOWERS IN THE WET

Is it me or are all Hayter 48 and 56 mowers just pants at cutting grass in the wet?

We have a variety of different mowers and all seem to cope fine at cutting grass in the wet apart from our Hayters.  We use a couple of Hayter 48 pro mowers for our domestic garden maintenance work and they both seem to not be of much use at all when the lawns get slightly wet.

We keep both mowers well maintained and blades are reasonably sharp. Our lawns are either cut every week or fortnightly.  I just have a feeling that they are of poor design and am quite tempted to replace them with a different model.  We end up having to raise the cutting height sometimes to the max just to get the lawns cut.

Would be interested to hear if other people have the same problem.

Gary

GS Grounds Maintenance

Tags: Bromley, GS, Grounds, Maintenance, based

Views: 1980

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Ian Parkes on June 11, 2012 at 14:09

anyone cutting lawns today good luck, i got told to go home ! haaa

Permalink Reply by Gary, GS Grounds Maintenance on June 11, 2012 at 20:40

Thanks for the comments guys!

Think im going to keep my two Hayters until the end of the season and then replace them next year with something that can cope with all conditions.  I didnt even attempt to use them in todays weather!!


PRO MemberPermalink Reply by Nick @ NM Garden Services Ltd on June 11, 2012 at 21:23

We started a commercial contract today where the grass hadn't been cut yet this year. Out came the Etesias and 45cc srrimmers.
No problem :)

Ian Parkes said:

anyone cutting lawns today good luck, i got told to go home ! haaa

Permalink Reply by Nick Palmer on June 11, 2012 at 21:57

Its wet here in the north west, so mowing in the wet is unavoidable unfortunately. I agree with Robbie Lynn's comment regards the grass bag. The fine holes in the material become clugged up so easily when using the machines in the wet and that vastly reduces the air flow and therefore the ability to fill the bag. We have always used hayter pro 48's and have found that  so long as the new model (silver ones) have a sharp blade and a clean ish bag, they collect fine in the wet. The old vari speed was poor even in damp conditions!

▶ Reply to Discussion

RSS

What's hot this week? 

1 What a waste of money that was...

What a waste of money that was...
2 Tree sap stained Indian slate, Help needed.

Tree sap stained Indian slate, Help needed.
3 letting staff borrow machinery for homers

letting staff borrow machinery for homers
4 Warranted Tradesmen...another nail in the coffin of traditional associations?

Warranted Tradesmen...another nail in the coffin of traditional associations?
5 Profit or pot luck?

Profit or pot luck?

© 2013   Landscape Juice ® Limited - Registered in England 08356644

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Privacy Policy  |  Terms of Service