Bosch Rotak 43 LI Cordless Rotary Lawn Mower
A powerful cordless electric lawn mower for medium and larger lawns The Bosch Rotak 43 LI cordless rotary lawn mower comes with two powerful 36V/2.6Ah Lithium-ion batteries with advanced electronics to enable a constant blade speed in all grass conditions. With the innovative grass combs it can also cut up to or over the edge of your lawn. It has a full 43cm cutting width, a rear roller for stripes and a range of cutting heights from 20 to 70mm, making it ideal for medium to la…
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Our lawn is more like field grass, than garden grass. We’re moving somewhere more sensible and bought the Rotak with that in mind. Considering it was an overdue first cut of the year, I have to say the Rotak coped very well. It was however a fair slog to shove through some of the thicker clumps, with battery life suffering when being overworked. Life should be easier now post first-cut, and cordless operation is a joy, but I would still have gone with self-propelled petrol if i was going to have to hack through this in the long term. For any sensible medium sized lawn, the Rotak would be very good, and I suspect its more robust than its slightly flimsy plastic (but lightwieght) construction suggests. I guess its a sign of getting old when you start reviewing lawnmowers…
I bought this mower as I am waiting for my petrol mower to be fixed, and thought that it would be handy to have something ever so slightly more reliable than my 20 year old Hayter, which breaks spectacularly every spring without fail. And what a world of difference. I think I will actually sell the petrol mower, as I now have no use for it.
I braced myself for a difficult assembly after reading previous comments, but it was simple, the instructions were clear enough, and it only took about 15 minutes. I popped the battery into the big manly charger at the same time, and took it out for a test on the lawn, even though it was very wet. It cut the wet grass with ease, the stripes were defined and wide (it has a small roller), it is light and easy to push and the blade adjusts with ease. Four things are particularly brilliant, however:
1) It comes with two batteries, which I didn’t really appreciate, so one can mow continuously (unless you have a very rough lawn which will use the battery up faster than it can be charged).
2) It has a cool comb thingy which cuts right to the edge of the grass. It really works.
3) Its pretty quiet, so you can cut in less sociable hours.
4) It probably won’t break or need servicing routinely. This should save one a lot of money.
Disadvantages? It can’t get through really tough grass as well as a petrol, you would need to mow it from a height first then again at a lower one. I suppose you don’t look as masculine as a petrol mower user. It also feels a bit ‘light’ and platicy. But I think it will actually wear quite well, its quite well constructed despite the materials used. Hopefully it should last quite a while.
All in all a product which is hard to fault.
Bosch Rotak 43 Lithium Ion – Cordless Lawnmower
Purchased this machine to be cable free & with a view to my partner being able to use, we were reluctant to purchase petrol as these can be a bit tricky to get started occasionally.
Anyway we have been delighted with this machine, battery life is good even when the grass is left to be longer than ideal. It is very easy to use & it is fantastic to just walk out the garage pull the lever & cut without having to top up with fuel or run out miles of cable. The quality of cut is great & the stripes are the longest lasting I have ever encountered with any mower, although this may be due to the lawn grass. All in all I would recommend this mower to anyone. The only point I can’t comment on to date is battery life but Bosch say we should get up to 1,000 charges which at 30-40 cuts/year is more than enough for anyone.