Great States 404-16 16-Inch Standard Push Light Reel Lawn Mower With T-Style Handle

Manufacturer: Great States
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List Price: $99.99

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Product Details

16-inch cutting width
10-inch composite wheels
Easy height adjust from 1/2-inch to 1-3/4-inch
Corrosion resistant, zinc-plated handle with plastic grips

Customer Reviews

Reel Mower

Review Date: July 28, 2008

Reviewer: Karima Bondi, Buffalo

Great product. Had been using an old Black and Decker reel. This one is MUCH lighter. I don't have a garage or tool shed so mower must be hauled up and down the basement stairs. I can lift this with one hand and easily transport it. I am a total ding-bat with written directions and was able to assemble this in about 10 minutes which means the average person could do it in 5 minutes or less. Mows well and makes a crisp, happy sound. I am now mowing my grass twice a week instead of once because it is so pleasant with this tidy mower.

Don't pay the oil companies in order to mow your own lawn, ever again

Review Date: July 30, 2010

Reviewer: Jeffrey A. Meunier, Connecticut, USA

I bought it hesitantly after debating the merits of a reel mower for a long while. I was a bit worried it would end up taking up space in my basement. It won't.

I wanted a reel mower as an ecological supplement to my John Deere lawn tractor and my Honda self-propelled push mower. I figured I'd use the reel mower to take care of the level middle part of the lawn (the easy part) and use the other two to get the rest (the uneven parts, the rutted parts, the hilly parts). It turns out that in the 3 months since I bought it I haven't used the John Deere or the Honda *at all*. The reel mower glides right over (and into and out of) the ruts that the Honda used to get hung up on and that the John Deere would scalp the tops off, and pushes effortlessly up the hills. It takes just a little longer to mow the whole lawn with the reel mower, but not if you figure in the time it would take to go out and buy gas and *then* mow the lawn. Furthermore you don't have to check the oil, air filter, or spark plugs. It's a low-energy machine, so it doesn't kick up dust and launch rocks. There's almost no noise and absolutely no exhaust fumes, and it's extremely light and easy to push. It makes mowing the lawn actually kind of fun. I suppose though that once the leaves start falling I'll have to go back to the other mowers.

Maintenance advice: I highly recommend wiping the blade reel edges and cutting bar edge with WD-40 after each mow. Or use motor oil or vegetable oil or candle wax: *something* to prevent oxidation. Otherwise a thin layer of rust will form. The rust will grind off quickly the next time you mow, but you've just lost that 1/100th of an inch, and some of the cutting edge, off your blades.

Read all the information on the web before you buy a reel mower. The worst thing you could do would be to buy one and then be disappointed with it, and then discourage others from trying one out.