(I'm going to ignore certain posts here) All machines come with a 2 year guarantee here, for the garden we have a strimmer, chainsaw, 2 wheel tractor and a lawnmower. the strimmer had to be replaced instantly as it wouldn't start and the shop couldn't get it to start either, something wrong with the compression. none of the others have given any issues, the lawnmower will cut foot long WET grass, without the collection box, with it it clogs up as expected, our issue is that the bottom of the grass was always wet as we lived in a bog, the main lawn never dried out even in last summers heatwave. I think the standard guarantee is only really of any use for issues like my strimmer's one's that come up instantly. other than that one (or 2) years is not enough to find an issue, unless you use them an awful lot.
I bought a Karcher pressure washer with a 4 year warranty and had it fixed in year 4 with no problems. It turned out to be a blockage though which wasn't covered by the warranty but they sorted out for free anyway.
Not a gardening tool but I also had a rucksack repaired under the company's lifetime warranty. I had to post it to California, it was then sent to their factory in god knows where, back to them and then back to me, all for a loose strap. They did offer to pay to have it fixed locally here but couldn't find anyone suitable believe it or not.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
if the grass is bone dry , the ground is dead level and the it's never more than about 2" high, I reckon it would be fine. On my sloping very wet and bumpy Devon garden, it's useless. The chute blocks up before the sensor goes off to say the hopper is full, sometimes it goes when the hopper is barely half full. The safety guards around the belts have an open front and end up rammed with dry grass which once caught fire ,(I kid you not ) I've had to have the hopper brackets replaced by the dealership as they accepted that the originals were useless, the "deflector" accessory didn't have anywhere on the mower to be attached, another visit from the dealer. If I hit a bump, one of the belts is likely to bounce off , or snap and at £70 each they're pretty expensive to replace. I could go on ,and on , and on.
Hi Hostafan 1
Well from what you've said i can tell you and your dealer should have told you, cutting grass in the wet is a no no,
The chute will block up because wet grass is a heavy material and if after every cut you dont use the hose connection to clean out the under skirt the wet grass will set like concrete and this has an effect of closing the chute open area smaller for the next time your using it,
Tobe honest i wish you lived near me because one the weathers dry and sunny a lot of the time & i bet i could sort this mower out,
Now i believe in being honest and your using the mower in the wrong way,
Your weather and the timing of cutting your "WET WET " grass you'd be better off with a good make of strimmer, These are used by councils etc in all weathers wet/dry etc and they do the job every time.
They dont have grass box's or alarms and from what ive seen the only complaints
came from the workers moaning (like your mower) they we're soaking wet and did'nt do the job as good as when it was dry/sunny.
Now come on Hostafan,
your expecting a mower to cut and clear the chute in soaking wet grass ???????
I said i'd like to help and here is a 100% answer to your cutting grass in the wet and its never ever been known to fail "but Hostafan" its not a jap make,
No the ones i know about a first saw when we bought our cottage 1 mile off the beaten track at the foot of the ARRAN mountain 7miles from the village of BALA
WALES,
It's better than any toyota as its echo friendly and the cost the last time i looked was £70. (Ive heard some people do ride on them and say its the best ride they've ever had)
"Oh christ" nearly forgot the name of the make "but they're on sale in BALA VILLAGE
It's call a sheep.
Good swimming to you Hostafan.
What a utterly pompous arse you are! When did I say I was cutting the grass when it was " soaking wet" I ran my own gardening business for over 25 years with guys working for me cutting lots of grass in that time. I know about cutting grass, I've done it before once or twice.
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This reminds me so much of the posts of someone who called himself Michael or Hortico. It’s rather uncanny!
Not a gardening tool but I also had a rucksack repaired under the company's lifetime warranty. I had to post it to California, it was then sent to their factory in god knows where, back to them and then back to me, all for a loose strap. They did offer to pay to have it fixed locally here but couldn't find anyone suitable believe it or not.
When did I say I was cutting the grass when it was " soaking wet"
I ran my own gardening business for over 25 years with guys working for me cutting lots of grass in that time.
I know about cutting grass, I've done it before once or twice.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.