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Gilmour RM30 20-Inch Reel Mower with Grass Catcher |  | Brand: Gilmour
Category: Lawn & Patio
Buy New: $337.99
as of 7/29/2010 16:09 UTC details
Seller: Action Packaged, Inc.
Rating:  81 reviews
Sales Rank: 8780
Shipping Weight (lbs): 35.7
Dimensions (in): 27.3 x 18.1 x 10.5
MPN: 08075
Model: RM30
UPC: 034411122303
EAN: 0034411122303
ASIN: B000RGZA8Y
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Wide 20-Inch mowing width; extra wide shrub/blade guard for safety, grass catcher | | • | 5 blade reel with ball bearings for smooth cutting; self-sharpening reels; adjustable bed knife | | • | Dual wheel design is more stable and tracks evenly; 10-Inch front wheel is cleared to reduce slippage | | • | Height adjusts from 1- to 3-Inch easily | | • | Large loop handle with comfort grip |
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Product Description
20" mowing width. 5 blade reel with ball bearings for smooth cutting. Adjustable height from 1-3" easily. Extra wide shrub/blade guard for safety. Dual wheel design for better stability. Large handle with comfort grip. Includes free grass catcher that attaches easily to back of mower. Folds for storage.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 81
Works Well for What It Is July 22, 2010
4 in 4.5
Overall, we are happy with this. We've had it for a couple years now and my husband enjoys using it in our back yard. We mostly bought it as a way for him to get exercise! He's used it in the front yard as well, but we have a pretty big lot and a very limited amount of time to spend on yard work, so he uses the gas mower in the front if he has time to mow at all. As other reviewers said, it doesn't handle tall or weedy grass as well and doesn't get as close to the edges of things as a gas powered mower, but, let's remember, it's not a gas powered mower! I love that it doesn't use gasoline and that it's much safer for my kids to be around when my husband is mowing. It does work much better if your grass isn't long or weedy--if it is and you want a clean cut, you'll have to go over it at least twice. It did arrive broken or missing some screws, but my husband was able to fix it himself and it has worked fine since. He doesn't use the clippings catcher that much though--I don't think it's that convenient and has to be emptied frequently but is still very funtional.
 A 5 year-old mowed my lawn June 10, 2010
Vegan Chick (Seattle)
I looked at quite a few reel & electric lawn mowers, but ultimately chose this one because I got a good return deal at my local hardware store. I couldn't be more pleased! It was incredibly light - I have a bad back, and was totally able to carry it to and from my car. Assembly took about 5 minutes, during which time my 5 year-old son was BEGGING me for a "turn". I was a little skeptical at first... usually when I let him attempt household chores he gets frustrated at his inability to do a thing, but he grabbed a hold of this and off he went. He did the ENTIRE backyard... I literally could not get a "turn". In all fairness, we have a fairly small yard with only grass and a flat surface. Not sure it would have been such a breeze otherwise, but it probably wouldn't be much harder! It caught all the grass (which we mulched in a part of the yard with poor soil quality... had a lot of fun throwing grass into the air for that!), and the handle slips off nicely for an easy fit into our shed. I wouldn't exactly call it "quiet", but it's certainly better than a noisy gas lawnmower, and with no carbon footprint other than what went into the manufacturing, I don't see how you can go more "green". I love it! Best $100 I've spent. If the blades are indeed "self-sharpening", we will get many years out of this. I can't recommend it more!
works great May 24, 2010
J. Floriano (Chino Valley, Az)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
if you like to mow often this is the mower for you, it cuts great, its easy to store away.
but after a years use my grass catcher bag has cracks in the hard plastic bottom I will use some duct tape and repair it, but its best not to leave this outside all year round.
One Step Beyond April 23, 2010
P. H. Mundy (Iowa City, IA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm old enough to remember when power mowers were new. I shared the ER when I took a few stitches for a baseball bat to the face as a catcher, with a man who'd just mowed his toes, first time using his power (rotary) mower. Almost all mowers were reel to that point, 1958, even most power mowers were reel, so we used manual push mowers and didn't know to feel like the benighted muckers we were, compared to post-modernist Now.
Of course we let fitness training disguised as yard work go as soon as we got the chance...but now with the Gilmour and others we can rethink our capitalist running dog position of fainting at the merest whiff of work. With our new Gilmour I mowed a friend's sizeable, tree-emplaced, hilly lawn and it took three hours. Using her riding lawnmower, (that she drove off a retaining wall last year and ended up in the ICU) it takes 2 hours at least. So? By the time I was done using the safest machine out there, a manual push mower, I was sweaty but oxygenated, and feeling great! Surprise! and slept great! and woke up determined to punch my way out of the paper bag of gripes in some of these 70+ reviews to-date because?
It all came back to me like it was yesterday...there's three things you have to do with a manual reel mower:
You have to set the height so you're cutting only about an inch or two. So you can't let the lawn go beyond 3-4 inches.
You have to clear all twigs and sticks and forget about pulverizing leaves; if twig-stuck, foot on reel backwards roll and lift and shake mower to free. The mower's so light you carry it with one hand.
You have to cross-cut (double-cut) areas you want to look super-perfect. Horizontal runs then vertical.
(Please do not forget to spray lube the reel and knife bed (aka blade) about once an hour and after mowing!)
And now--secrets you didn't learn from blogspots--if you have a multi-species lawn, with some clumps growing higher than others, higher than you can set the mower, try this: mow in a circle, picking a central point. You throw the mower at the imaginary point and let it go with one hand, holding with the other and pull back, step forward around the circumference and repeat. Before you finish the circle you'll likely have the weedy sprouts all levelled out and nicely cut, because the mower bends them down until at some point they enter the cutting blade circumference head-on.
Another reviewer described his teenager discovering you can zip-spin the reel to get at weeds and taller grasses. The kid is right and helped restore my memory of the good ole/bad ole days. This is what you do with the circle-push above. And it's what you do with edging around trees or bushes...you push into the central object (or flower bed border) and walk in a circle around a tree, or saw-blade down the border. It's like flinging a rope and then pulling it back; step forward and repeat until done.
People: I'm unafilliated-just a customer. I have a Silent Scott from Sears and long-ago. It's heavy and has to be sharpened or else you're pumping behind it like football players pushing coach on the blocking sledge. I have a Scott's Classic, and it's great, and quiet, but has to be sharpened. And now, the Gilmour. I was discombobulated by the noise and in fact wear ear plugs like I do with a power mower, because the high frequencies of metal-on-metal will kill your hearing (believe that!) But? the thing really works. It's heavier than the Scott's Classic and doesn't fly around as much on a bumpy lawn. but hard? Not. At one point I tried being Ben Hur and pushed the Scott with one hand and the Gilmour with the other. Had a 40-inch cutting swath but couldn't keep them aligned.
You can do it and you'll feel better for it and you can take this to the Checkout Cart: These mowers really work and they're improved over yesteryear. Back when I was first mowing lawns, Superman didn't have spandex, either. We're glad we lived to see the day. I used to want a pony for Christmas. I might change that to a Fiskars Momentum. But the Gilmour's half the price and all of the results. You won't be sorry unless you're just determined to be a diabetic-waiting-to-happen Yankee Imperialist...(we're assuming that all things now come from China.)
excellent product January 23, 2010
Nitram (SFO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have had this for quite some time and it works excellent. i keep it outside and it has not rusted and is still very sharp. I would buy this again in a second...
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