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| Brand: Scotts
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $180.00
Buy New: $122.99
You Save: $57.01 (32%)
New (15) Used (1) from $122.99
Rating:  378 reviews
Sales Rank: 188
Media: Tools & Hardware
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 34.5
Dimensions (in): 27.8 x 17.9 x 9.6
MPN: 2000-20
Model: 2000-20
UPC: 026479200208
EAN: 0026479200208
ASIN: B00004RA3E
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Exhausting... September 18, 2008
Melvin Rodriguez (Hudson, FL United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always trusted amazon's reviews before I buy any product. But I have to say that this is one didn't hit the mark. The reviews for this product here are in majority positive reviews. But let me tell you my opinion.
I live down in Florida and the grass that we have here is a derivate of St. Agustin. I think its called Flortran. The only people who will benefit from getting this mower are the ones that have grass that grows evenly. But we know nothing is perfect. Most of the time you will have chunks of grass that grow taller than others.
This mower have worked extremely well when the grass is about 4" tall and may be 5". It spreads the cut grass evenly so there's no need to rake afterwards. I've never seen a mower, gas, electric or reel, that spreads the clippings better than this one. And leaving the clippings is good for the health of your lawn.
But having a lawn that grows evenly is hard to come by. Whenever I tried to push the mower trough grass chunks taller than 4 inches I had to run so it didn't stop me. And even that, most of the time I came to a complete stop. I step back and forward again and stopped by the 5" of grass chunk. This reel mower DOES NOT go trough grass taller than 4" unless you and 3 other people push it. You will end-up extremely tired and will have to do a second pass with a trimer.
Believe me when I tell you that you will use it once, love the results, use it a second time and decide to buy a regular lawn mower.
NOTE: DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE POSITIVE REVIEWS ON THIS PRODUCT. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO CUT GRASS TALLER THAN 4".
If you're like me that don't want to deal with gas mower noise, maintenance, gas expenses and environmental contamination then do what I did... buy a Newton Electric Mower. You will say to yourself why you didn't bought one before.
 MUCH easier to push than a gas mower! September 17, 2008
Brown Thumb (MI, USA)
I bought this mower because eveything I had read said that the extra wheels in back made it easier to push. Having never, pushed anything other than gas powered mowers in the past, I have no way to verify this. All I can verify is that this is the EASIEST, lightest mower I've ever used. We moved to a manufactured home park and I just couldn't justify a gas mower on such a small lot. Now I tell EVERYONE how much I love my mower. Even if I had a bigger yard, this is so much better than the gas mowers. It does'nt "scalp" the lawn so my yard stayed greener than my neighbors. It's so quiet. I work a variety of hours, so I can mow my lawn late or early, and my neighbors can't hear me. It's so much safer to use around kids, pets, etc. (The blades are only going around when you push. You stop, so do the blades.) There's no gas/oil smell on you and your clothes. It's free to run so it's great on the wallet! We gave away our old gas mower to a neighbor. One day it wasn't working right so we let her borrow our push mower. She was so shocked at the difference! She bought one for herself a few weeks later. I would say the only drawbacks (If you could call them that) is that you'll meet a LOT of your neighbors if they SEE you out mowing (again, they won't hear it unless they're next to it). Everyone seems so curious and we get a lot of people who want to try it out. The other "drawback", you will find yourself mowing a bit more often than you do with a gas mower. The only thing I can think of for this, is because the grass does'nt have to do as much recovery after a mowing. The grass stays greener, but because of the faster growth, you don't want to "let it go" or you'll have a "jungle" to mow. Then it gets harder to push (it will push like a gas mower). You'll only do this once because you won't know how "spoiled" you were before this (from my own personal experience). This is such a great product for those of us who like to garden, but don't like to work.
Dissappointed September 14, 2008
Erik Nichols (Clearwater, MN USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was very excited in hearing a lot of great reviews. Unfortunately, I was mislead. My troubles with the Scotts Reel mower is that It did not come factory ready. My mower did not cut evenly, missed grass, hardly touched the taller weeds and not to mention the rickety handle. I remembered using a reel mower when I was like 12 and worked great!
The coolest part of this mower and the only reason I gave it two stars is. For one you don't need gas. The other is you can mow and still hear people, music, birds or what have ya.
This mower has been a huge disappointment, when I can go out and buy a new push mower for $50 more. Maybe I just got a bad model but overall I'm not happy and would not recommend this product to anyone. Thanks to all you people that have put youtube videos about the Scott's Reel Mower this has been very helpful to me. It's sounds like I'm not the only one with issues.
Get a real mower with gas and self propelled. September 11, 2008
Steve (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is a reason why we stopped using 'reel' mowers many years ago. We should learn from history rather than repeat it. Buy a used 'real' mower from Sears. They cost just as much as this mower.
 Not a good design September 10, 2008
C. Ahuja (Dallas, USA,)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought it recently but got dissapointed with it immediatley. Assembly is easy. Not very heavy but it requires incredible force for slightly longer grass. The angle of the push handle is not optimum and can not be adjusted. I am 5'4" and found it extremely hard to push it. Had to return it after an hour of use. Realised it is not for me.
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