Push Mower Magic - Flymo H40 Review vs Ozito
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- čas přidán 15. 03. 2016
- Push Mowers (also known as Reel Mowers ) aren't just an old fashioned solution to cutting your lawn - they actually have many advantages (apart from being cheaper and quieter) compared to petrol and electric mowers.
In this video I compare 2 affordable mowers that can be found commonly here in Australian hardware stores. The Ozito Push Lawn Mower and The Flymo H40.
But the point of this video really is to high light the magic that a quality push mower can bring to your lifestyle.
Enjoy! - Jak na to + styl
After watching your excellent review and actually having that exact ozito I upgraded and have never looked back
Thanks.
Oh everyone asks is it hard to push NO its easy, you still have to push a motor mower.
Having a two tiered yard I use to heave the motor mower up 7 stairs. I carry the flymo with one hand.
I purchased a FLYMO about 15 years ago.
My lawn area was about 6x5 meters.
It cut beautifully. Better than a petrol type. Planning to buy another one soon.
5 years later I'm 26 years old and finally looking at buying my first push mower, this video review was amazing! Mitre 10 had terrible star reviews but this is perfect!!
I still use mine weekly and its 2021.
On a similar note, I recently got the H40 as a gift and it's 10 times better than the Victa 16" I had before.
Very informative. For what it's worth, the Flymo has the option of a catcher as a separate purchase. The Ozito doesn't appear to have that option.
i just got my push mower cuz i get tired of having bad experiences with the others i watch your video and love it and you accent is lovely! !!!
nice little video, love the slow motion bits, thanks mate
This was really helpful, thanks mate.
Cool thanks, very helpful.Just what I needed to know.
Further to my last post it is worth mentioning a couple more tricks with them. If the mower starts to disengage it is most often because dirt has accumulated inside. Take off the wheel covers and give everything inside a thorough clean. Scrape out any dirt between the teeth on the interior of the wheels and between the teeth on the cylindrical sprocket inside. Clean out the little hole and its metal slider, which should slide very freely. I use light oil for that purpose. The weak point, it seems to me, lies with the triple ridges on the inside of the sprocket. These engage with the sliders in opposite directions on each wheel. After months of hard use the plastic ridges wear down; if only they were made of metal or spare parts were available ! To be honest I haven't found the instruction booklet particularly helpful; I've had about six of these mowers and just found things by trial and error. The best cutting level and contact between rotor and blade I have found to be very dependent on personal taste. Anyway, you can often get a few extra months out of them by the aforementioned cleaning and taking the time to get the cutting parameters right for you.
With the flymo h40 my blade tighting screws fell out while helping my mum with her lawn and she has a really tall lawn and I couldn’t find them so what i did is I simply got some metal wire and stuck the wire through the holes where the bolt was to tighten and loosen the blade and I bent the wire with some pliers and my hands and it’s perfect now why are you wondering why I need that bolt it was because when mowed the blade underneath would fall down and not cut properly so the wires great if I need to tighten the blades bend the wire loosen the blades unbend the wire simple as that and if anyone’s having the same problems with the blade try this method
Back in the good old days, (1950s) we had an amazing push type reel mower; solid cast steel or iron frame & wheels with rubber tread meant that it got traction and had momentum; the handle bar and roller were turned wood and the shaft connecting the mower to the handlebar was timber. Where is that mower now?
Sorry for my nostalgic digression! I have a Flymo H40 and I have given it a lot of use & abuse on my bush-block. I prefer it now to my petrol and battery alternatives. I leave it just outside my door, and so I can grab it and push it in front of me going to and back from the shed, or when I feel I just need a few minutes of exercise.
Downside: The ratchet drive mechanism uses a steel against plastic system, and that is now failing, (obviously inevitable). I'm going to see if I can get two plastic replacements (one in each wheel)
"where is that mower now" the old masports are still around, still usable with a sharpen usually. Pretty impressive
nice review
a lot of really comes down to just where on the body, that the handle joins to it. The Ozkito is of the genra that has the handle join to the body far back down nearer the rear roller, which means that withless down force upon the drive wheel - that the drive wheels skip and lose traction.
The Flymo has the handle join further forward, which enable more traction. However the Flymo suffers more from having the entire body rotate forward when the mower encounters heavier grass.
In rotating the body forward (it is actually toppling forward),
the cutting blades lift from the ground,
and so you have to repeat that section of grass many tomes over to get it all cut down to the desired height.
I actually have an earlier Flymo, the HGL5/33,but the concept (and problem) is the same.
I agree the Flymo is a better choice, especially for the longer life compared to the Ozkito.
I have created a cure for the Flymo body lifting problem: go to Bunnings etc - and procure a Pneumatic Stay.
I use the 250mm Light to medium weight one.
It is used normally as a gas strut for upward lift opening doors, on desks for example (I am a lateral thinker)
Attaching one of theses Stays between one of the Handle spars, to a point on the body near the adjustment knob - has cured my mower from skipping the bodylift problem.
There needs to be a bit of trial and error, as there are some factors to consider:
The pneumatic stay offers more resistance, the further in that the tubing is pushed.
I drilled holes in the handles, to place the Stay at a point where it is at maximum extension, and has my handles at the height comfortable to me.
If you have the Stay compressed too much, too much weight is taken from the Drive wheels, and they will skip.
The only thing to stop this mower now, no matter what type of grass - is a big twig/stick
It will now eat all buffalo grass for breakfast!!
The Flymo, with this modification, will now behave like the best Qualcast mower! (I have one of them too)
Great stuff mate, i just got a 2nd hand flymo for 20 bucks and i love the old rust bucket, i have couch and its near bowling green quality , i noticed what you said when i mow a area i let get a little long sometimes , i see it tilt forward like you said , while i could just keep it mowed lower i think i will try your idea with the strut and want to thank you for the tip. other than that i`m really happy with it
I live in USA, does it cut tall weeds?! Where can I find the reel mower with the catcher?!
I know this is an old video but on on off chance you see this, any idea how the Flymo compares to the Bosch AHM 38G?
I ll give it a go.
Thanks for the video!
One question. Why do you wear shoes inside and go barefoot outside?
Its Australia !!! To be honest - that is a continuity error!!
@@reflexfilms haha i'm australian too. was just tongue in cheek ;)
I could see that Flymo rear roller was bouncing up and down which means the push bars are too fat forward on the mower which means the rear roller won't be producing any stripes on the lawn. Maybe the 400 has been corrected
I am so confused by this comment!
@@reflexfilms
If you watch your own slow motion pass of the Flymo you will quite clearly see the rear roller bouncing up and down off the lawn. What's there to be confused about ?
@@a.c.1474 how does that affect stripes? i didn't even know the rear roller was supposed to create stripes - and have no idea how it could - it's just a plastic roller that supports the back and allows height adjustment. Surely the further apart the rollers the less effect from bouncing.
It sounds like you have some insight into lawnmower design - I would love to hear more.
@@reflexfilms
The roller whether plastic or metal pushes the grass over bending it slightly after it's cut. Obviously the more pressure downwards will produce a more pronounced stripe, that's why older / vintage cylinder mowers had quite large metal rollers of considerable weight producing lovely stripes. Obviously these nowadays have lost their popularity because of their cost and ironically their heaviness. If you try to replace these with lighter machines it can be done successfully but it's critical to get the balance of the machine correct. Where the push bars are connected to the mower they should be low down on the sides and nearer to the roller rather than the spindle of the cutter. On the machine you were using this wasn't the case thus the rear roller was bouncing and floating literally making the roller more cosmetic rather than performing it's intended function of pressing down on the grass to fold it over. It would be worth your while to reposition the end of the handles on the machine by bolting them on further back and lower and make a program on this as it would be extremely interesting to many people and would improve it's performance considerably.
Hysqvarna diamond 400 36 years later and is like new work perfectly very happy
What's the difference between H40 and H400? Or just a change in name?
Hello, I need to replace a bearing on the reel. Do you have a source of supply?
Sorry - i do not - try contacting your local supplier.
Heard people had 7 of these over few years and just replace parts from the previous one. He can't find any supply as well.
How do they go with really long grass?
MrBrentles very badly. You need to keep up with it so cant let it go for a coyple of weeks
my lawn mower safety instructions uk was not to mow lawn bare foot what do i see in this video ?
Emma smith i like to live on the edge- im a bit wild like that.
Aussie rules Emily.... We antipodeans have a thing for disagreeing with the Queens burial rules, which includes cricket, boxing and drinking beer.
:)
Can the flymo H40 put stripes on the lawn
Yes, just run some paint onto the wheels while your Mowing the Lawn....
How do these go with twigs and sticks ? There's a lot of leaf debris on my lawn, which tends to jamb the push mower I tried. A petrol mower will just chew this up, I have to pre rake before mowing which doubles the work...
Yep - raking is the price you pay to get the sweet cut froma push mover - best for small lawns for sure. And nice and quiet too
I rake the spots where the twigs are before I mow. Once on top of it, it takes me 5m
Awesome thanks
Not to be recommended. Super lightweight, just rolled over all the daisies and dandelions on my lawn, which bounced back up again. Hardly made an impression on the grass. The nuts keep falling off the bolts on the handles which is a real pain. What happened to the good old pushmowers of old? Really regret buying this.
your comment is a bit unclear - are you referring to The Ozito or the Flymo?
@@reflexfilms The Flymo. I guess it would be fine for a super flat lawn provided that you didn't want to cut it very short. No comparison to the solid lawnmowers of old though.
Ozito is red these day's
How can you compare an old worn out product to a new one like that?
If you compared a new ozito to the flymo, I'm pretty sure you would get different results
you might want to check when this video was made....
how do you cut all the way to the edge?
Scissors!
living in the tropics everything grows too fast and being a female...for the edges i use weed killer.
Whipper snipper
Best thing I saw you can mow barefoot
yes- probably not the safest way to go!
I was hoping to find out how loud or quiet this mower sounded, but the music and talking was overwhelming.
You are kidding surely
Nope.