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I have a small 30 a week garden maintenance round I normally use honda izys just the push version as I enjoyed the workout they gave me lol but now I'm in my 50s I'm needing a self propelled one for 300_500 price range been looking at Stihl as all my other stuff i.e strimmers blowers hedge cutters are of this brand and are great just wondering if any one has a recommendation or used this brand of mower many thanks 

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23 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

Yes that was my understanding as well. Nothing wrong with Viking mowers either. Neighbour did ground maintenance for a living and always ran Viking mowers

Yes . My limited experience of walk behind self propelled mowers is between Honda and Hayter . The Honda has a great engine and an over complicated drive mechanism that can fail where as the Hayter has , probably a Briggs engine but a simple , less to go wrong drive system .  Edit . Just googled the top 10 best s/p mowers in the U.K.2021(£500ish )  and niether of the above feature ! Have a look . ( don't tell trig you used google though ) .

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39 minutes ago, Woodworks said:

Yes that was my understanding as well. Nothing wrong with Viking mowers either. Neighbour did ground maintenance for a living and always ran Viking mowers

 

45 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Think they are Viking ?

They used to be Viking but now Stihl branded 

 

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Thought viking was always a stihl  owned sub- brand?

 

 

 

Some cheaper  mowers seem  to have underpowered engines for the deck width and  lack any anti - vibration control compared to more expensive ones.

 

 

 

So id look out for thoose two things.

 

Like the look of this coz of the new honda engine spec:

 

 

Not sure about what the build quality will be though.....and can't  find  the anti vibe data

 

 

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1 hour ago, Dodgenufc said:

I have a small 30 a week garden maintenance round I normally use honda izys just the push version as I enjoyed the workout they gave me lol but now I'm in my 50s I'm needing a self propelled one for 300_500 price range been looking at Stihl as all my other stuff i.e strimmers blowers hedge cutters are of this brand and are great just wondering if any one has a recommendation or used this brand of mower many thanks 

One thing to consider is the weight, do you have to lift the mower, or do you have a ramp? The kaaz mowers are good (pricey) but over 60kgs!

 

 

I had a go on a stihl rm253 recently, felt kind of flimsy? Probably no better or worse than any other mower at that price range.

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Engine that small size may struggle with any longer or damp grass i think, but that maybe less of and issue if grass is all regular cut.

 

Its a 2.1KW  non /own brand engine on rm253?

 

the   honda izy if a gx160 has 3.6 kW...

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Stiga with honda engine:

 

 

Has  a high lift blade as standard supposedly  will bag better.

 

Image 1 - STIGA COMBI 48 SQ 20" LAWNMOWER HI LIFT PERFORMANCE BLADE 181004398/0

 

Think there was/is a stiga dealer on here GardenKit he might have an opinion about this model etc.

 

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