Flymo Turbo Compact 330 Lawn Mower

Heavy and difficult to manoeuvre in tight corners. The full capacity warning device for stored clippings gave up the ghost after a few uses but I couldn't be bothered to get it repaired through the tortuous guarantee process. After 2 years of moderate use I was mowing quite happily on a not too long growth of grass when the motor bearings seized up suddenly causing the motor to burn out in a dramatic fashion. This is a very poor product and is best avoided at all costs.

I bought a Flymo Turbo Compact 330 Lawn Mowerdue to the good Flymo reputation but I wish I'd gone for another that had a wheel at each corner, the hover action makes a big difference than when you try pushing it without being switched on but its still a heavy cumbersome thing, and the cut grass is only sucked up at the right hand corner so you have to plan to cut the grass starting on the right hand side going forward and back working to the left hand side of the garden. It cuts ok, has plenty of power but cannot cut to the edge of a lawn against a fence leaving 6inches of uncut grass,

It really hurts the back when using this mower, I've tried back and forth, swinging side to side and general all over cutting and none is easier than another, I'm going to go for a rotary blade mower next with a wheel at each corner as it'll be so much easier than this thing, don't even try to cut grass thats on a small incline, the hover action means your fighting to keep it going straight and its just a disaster! Not recommended to anyone really, I've owned it a year now.

If my Flymo Turbo Compact 330 Lawn Mower had not broken so dramatically, or we had been able to get some response from the company we would have been very happy with it. As it is, the experience has left us incredibly frustrated and needing a new mower after just 15 months of very ordinary use.