Flymo Speedi-Mo 360C

I bought this mower to replace an aging cordless model as the battery was no longer up to the job - it lasts ok, but the motor was not as powerful as it was and the battery kept over heating which meant I spent more time charging/cooling down than I did actually mowing. This was a breeze to put together, took no more than 10 mins and that included a quick look at the manual to see how the grass box fit together. First off this mower is light - much lighter than my old battery operated one (to be expected as no heavy battery), however this is really manoeuvrable. Second it has a very large cutting deck, which means less time to mow - as it mows more in a single line than my old one. The best thing by far though was how tall grass it cuts. I used it for the first cut of the season and the garden was a bit like Jurassic park (without the dinosaurs) in other words the grass was long. I put it on the highest cut settings and it made light work of the tall grass which was around 6 inches in places. The viewing window in the grass box lets you see how full it is, but I just kept going until I had finished the lawn (which was damp in the very tall grass). This mower took it all in it's stride. I was able to complete 3 fair size lawns in super quick time. I have tried a number of other brands since owning the first Flymo's many years ago, but having used this one I think I will stick with them in the future. The only negative is the cable is short at 12m. One lawn is double that, while the other is 1.5 times that, with the 3rd being smaller but much further away from an electrical outlet so I needed to use a long extension cable, but the disadvantage of the cable is smaller than the disadvantage of using a battery operated mower! I got this mower in the spring deal, but to be honest, I would have been happy with it had I paid full price! Great mower and I can highly recommend it!

I needed a new lawn mower as my last one was 10 years old and did not cut the grass very well on the first mow of the year , just chewed it up and spat it out all over the place , Was looking for a battery one to save me mowing over the cable which i had dome a few times on my old one , it ended up being just over a metre long , oops , so long extension cable used instead , but some of the reviews were not good for battery ones , so i shall be more careful with this one now . This one is relatively easy to put together , but grass box was a bit fiddly , but a few swear words and a few thumps where the clips are and it clicked it into place . Half an hour to assemble , I am a woman of 66 , so off i whizzed with my new lawn mower and it did a grand job , picked up all the old grass that the old one spat out despite having a grass box , and did both my lawns in super quick time , It is quite heavy but i am quite strong despite my age so i managed . On the whole very happy with it , does a really good job , the cutting length is very easy to change with the easy lever on the side . I will be buying a replacement blade for it for when this one goes blunt and they are under £20 so not bad , as it does advice to change the blade every 2 years which may be why my old one packed up as it had never had a blade change . My lawn is also quite bumpy thanks to the badgers and foxes constantly digging it up and the squirrels burying their nuts i put out for the birds , and this mower went over everything . Best £125 i ever spent and would definitely recommend this mower , I love my garden but absolutely hate mowing lawns , i may even start to enjoy that job now .

reasonably priced lawnmower which does a great job of reasonable length grass. It is very light, which is great and it moves very well. The wheels also make it highly manoeuvrable and it is very easy when you need to turn it. The collection box is large (much larger than our previous mower) but is a little flimsy and we have trouble keeping it clipped together. Sometimes. if the back clips give way, you get showered in cut grass but that has only happened a couple of times. The cable (which is not a plug-in, it is integrated) is not particularly long and for medium to large gardens you may need an extension cable. Overall, no real problems and it is a big step up on our old mower - definitely a budget mower to consider.

Lightweight and easily assembled. Grass box not so good as the mower it replaced, but it works. Wife is happy with the cutting performance which is good because she’s the one who uses it!

Good mower, light and cuts the grass short as i like it, large grass storage with a glass window, the only thing missing is somewhere to wrap the wire.

Good quality mower,easy to use.

So we bought this to replace two older mowers, both of which had given good service over 30 years. First impression while unboxing this was it's a bit plasticy. The handle went together easily, but there is some flex at the point where it screws onto the plastic mower frame so I'm not sure how long it will last...time will tell I guess. The grass collection box came in three pieces, and lets just say that it required some severe talking to, largely in the form of colourful words, while trying to put it together. A knife was also used to coax bits together...that or scare it into submission. Finally, having got the thing together, I took it out for a test mow. Now we have a very long, very uneven sloping garden that would provide a test for any mower. There are unexpected holes (thank you Mr Badger), a slalom course of odd trees and shrubs and a carpet of acorns near the end that tend to fly in all directions when mowed over. Ouch. How did it behave? Well, it's slightly bigger than the old mowers but it was noticeably heavier as well, which made me a little concerned as mowing is already a work out, however it seemed easy to push about, I just couldn't do my usual fling it about sideways that I could do with the lighter ones while hoping over stones etc. Maybe that's not a bad thing as it does stop me putting my back out. It did mow very cleanly, and changing the height is simple with a single ratcheted lever. It coped remarkably well with the unevenness and general bumpiness of the lawn, skimming over old half hidden trunks and paving stones with no problem. The large blade coped well with the occasional stick or fragment of lost clothes peg and didn't stop or slow down regardless of what ended up underneath it. It was loud enough to give the frogs near the hedge a warning as well, so that's good!! The cord is long enough to not have to shift the extension too many times so I'll count that a bonus. The grass box wasn't impressive... The top kept lifting off, and I never seemed to be able to get it fixed on correctly, so I just gave up on the box and things went much more smoothly once I'd taken it off and consigned it to the cellar, where possibly the mice will play in it. So. Did it cut well? Yes. Was it fast at mowing a large bumpy annoying garden? Yes. Is it heavy? Yes, but I didn't find that as difficult as I thought it might be. Is it well made? Jury is still out on that, maybe it's the sign of the times that plastic is the main thing used in all cheaper things these days. Is the grass box any use? Hmmm only if you want to constantly fiddle with it. Is it loud? Not more than any other and it does warn the local wildlife, so bonus. All in all, it's not bad for the price in a sale, and if it coped with our lawn, it will cope with just about anything!!

**UPDATED 23/05/21** Please see bottom of text. After using a very cheap and old qualcast 'hover mower' on our lawn last year I decided it needed replacing as it was awful! This was shortlisted against the easi store Flymo but decided this was the best option due to alot of the reviews for other Flymo suggesting it had a massive issue with it changing deck height by itself. After reading the reviews for this I took a gamble and ordered one. The reviews made me think it would be flimsy with a fiddly grassbox but I don't agree! The assembly was easy, the instructions aren't amazing as it's a few small diagrams but it's quite intuitive and most of it is common sense! The grassbox just needs the clips lining up and a few calculated smacks to drive them home. I'm 5'11 and used the higher of two options when assembling the hand bars. After using it on it's trial run I can confirm it's a really comfortable position for those who are a bit taller/more lanky but has the option of dropping the bars an inch or so if you are of the shorter variety. For circa £110 my expectations were low but I'm really impressed! Yes it's plastic, and it's not massively heavy but it does a good job and the lead is long enough for most gardens, I had to add an extension lead to do ours as the grass spans approx 18metres. It did the first cut this year since October last year and it was a breeze. My lawn is about 50% moss but despite this it cut it well, however I did notice that anything above the shortest setting didn't seem to do anything so I went around on the shortest setting straight away, I will update the review in the summer once the grass thickens out and update you all on whether the higher height settings do anything. I was really impressed by the flat edges of the deck to allow you to get close to borders etc, it made my life 10X easier as I didn't have to fanny around with a strimmer! The clear panel on the top also made a big difference when it came to seeing how full the grassbox is, I'm glad I went with this model. The mower comes with one year warrantee but you can register it with Flymo online for an extra years warrantee with plenty of parts also available in the event you need a new blade or anything. Overall for the price I'm really happy so fingers crossed it lasts :) 23/05/21*** Since my last update I've been able to use it to mow our lawn many times, overall my thoughts still remain the same for the most part, my only updated thoughts are: - Despite the grass now growing quickly and a weekly trim being required, anything but the lowest setting doesn't take enough off to warrant a mow! - If your lawn has dips/drops or anything that isn't a flat bowling green it doesn't have a good time! Because of the wheels it means that it won't get low enough trim dips in the grass and where there are slight raised areas it will scalp them! - even though it has the edging feature built in meaning its flat edge can get close to things, I'm still needing to go round my decking and lawn edges with the strimmer, it's just not as much work. Overall I don't think this really changes my thoughts on it as the lawn levels not being perfect isn't the mowers fault. This mower is still very reasonably priced and is still a joy to use!