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Hover Mowers
are good utility rotary mowers for the smaller garden. They are simple in
design making them fairly cheap and easy to manoeuvre as they float on a
cushion of air. As they don’t usually have wheels they have to be carried
so limiting the size.
Larger petrol versions
are available which do have 2 back wheels to help move them when stopped.
These tend to be very large and used for extensive areas of rough grass.
Hover mowers can’t usually cut very close but give a very acceptable
finish if not the highest of quality.
Hover mowers are rotary by nature, they have
a single centrally mounted spinning blade. They have a fan of some sort
fitted above the cutting blade so that a down-draft of air is created on
which the mower can float over the lawn. Floating on an air cushion means
that the mower is unlikely to "scalp" any parts of the garden where there
might be a slight bump as the mower will float with the change in height
of the ground.
As they lack any sort of roller, hover mowers cannot
produce the characteristic stripes often regarded as the hallmark of a good
lawn (not that they necessarily are the hallmark of a good lawn, they're
just regarded as such)
Some of the electric versions come with a grass collecting
box and some with a plastic blade for safety in case you run over the electrical
cable (easier with this type of mower perhaps than with any other).
Larger petrol powered rotary mowers are good for areas
of rough grass and can be used to mow steep slopes and banks with the aid
of a rope. While this is hard work, it is usually the only realistic option
for such places.
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