As mentioned in the video, this mower doesn't cut seed stalks with a single forward pass. This is because the tall stalks are held down below the cutting bed by the bar in front of the reel. With some practice I've learned to pull the mower backwards back over the uncut stalk so that the reel is an inch or two behind the stalk. Then with a quick forward thrust of the mower, the stalk usually bows up into the path of the reel and gets cut. Sometimes I don't get it on the first try, but I find that incorporating a sharp twist left or right as you thrust forward works pretty well. You have to pay attention and notice the stalks as they pop up behind the mower when you first pass over them. But I've gotten to the point where I pretty much do it automatically and the result is every bit as even as a power mower.
Just got this mower today and loved it already. Your video of such a thick tall lawn responding to it is encouraging. All it missed for me were a couple of weeds and few patches of grass that were 10 inches high. As the instructions point out, you may need to initially get the grass to a cuttable height i.e. less than 6 inches with a regular powered mower, then should be able to keep up easily with this and do a uniform job. No upkeep, no recharging, no gas and oil to buy, no flooding of engine, no blades that require at least yearly sharpening if you don't just want to tear the grass, no filters to change/wash - betting I can mow more often easily without a flinch. With its convenience, do not have to think twice about just doing a small portion of the lawn if that is all the time I have. From the design of it, it is definitely not for heavily pine coned or fruit laden yards, crabgrass or weed lawns - has to be for a lawn that has regular attention.
Today I bought a reel mower, my grass was tall, it took hours and I am super tired. Guess I will develop some solid upper body strength with that thing.
@@kvin9210 I gotta say my lawn is looking great since I keep it mowed. Yeah it's a bit of work, but the reel mower cuts beautifully without choking me with fumes
I use mine as an excuse to get some extra cardio into my life and be active so I actually like all the work it takes lol. The results are lovely too so I don't mind.
@@Octizm I know they are a lot better for clean lawns that look really nice, but the lawns I take care of are big hills with lots of trees and grass that grows way too fast in one week to look nice without good mulching.
Yeah, that is definitely the wrong application for this mower. Looks like it would be a great mower for most well kept lawns and ecological and health conscious people.
I bought one recently. Yeah it doesn't do the best if your lawn is overgrown but after a few passes it works just fine. Or use a weed eater to break up the majority, then sweep with this thing. I love it.
Thank for the video, Seriously though more your lawn more often or if it really grows that fast in 1 week you should consider starting a garden in that soil :).
Yes if you follow the thirds rule there'll be no choking. Good point on front discharge recut. I thought the only drawback was no mulching but recut may take care of that.
Fiskars does offer a clipping catcher that mounts forward of the blades. It is a open top design of course so you fill the basket more than a bagger can hold. Nice Electric weed wacker would take care of those pesky stalks.
of course exactly this model is made for higher grass. you just have to be conscious about going faster turns the reel faster. faster is better cut in this case.
You can mow with a regular lawn mower or use a string trimmer to get the grass lower rake the grass and compost that grass and enhance the compost with all natural ingredients . Then use your reel mower maintain . You can use compost Anywhere on your yard. Even to v over seed . Or to improve the soil near wher the grass meets bare spots..
I returned the mower. It wasn't working out very well on the really tall grass. I bought a Ryobi 16 in. 40-Volt Lithium Cordeless Electric Lawn Mower with 2 Batteries. It didn't last very long. It kept cutting out on me. I thought that maybe the battery had a problem so I went to switch batteries but the battery wouldn't come out. I think that it welded the contacts together. I'm waiting for Home Depot to send me a replacement mower. My neighbor was kind enough to lend me his gas mower for now.
That remined me of when I was a kid, it was the only thing we had. It was always my job to mow, seemed it was never sharp, even if my dad sharpened it.
I have a 22 inch mower now and have heard about Toro's Timemaster with a 30 inch cut. More width = less time. More power = no sore muscles afterwards. My next mower is a 30 inch Toro.
Used to own a push mower. Works well only if you have decent size lawn and don't mind to cut frequently. btw, Dr Z calls the "uphill" a "high side". Glad he didn't call a "discharge line." lol Good video, fun video. Thanks as always !
I have been debating on a cheaper reel mower just because of one issue. Hills. I live on the corner of a street and have 4' grassy embankment going all along both. I love my gas mower, it serves me well, but weather it is power assisted or not hills are back breaking. Hopping something much lighter to push around would make things easier.
You need to cut the grass more often you are letting it to tall if you are getting seed stalks. I love these videos were people are talking about how they don't work on tall grass. .
The reason it wasn't cutting the stalks is because you have it to high if you set it lower height then you should be able to cut those seed stalks. what i suggest is run it on the high like you had it for the first pass of the entire yard then run it on the low in a second pass of the yard and that should take care of the seed stalks.
Nope, I can tell you from 4 years with one that you need to use something like a grass whip or weed eater to knock the seed stalks down to a cut-able height.
killerbliss1 no. Reel mowers arnt meant to cut weeds. Iv used reel mowers on really nice golf courses and even spinning at 3000rpm won't cut a damn weed because they arnt meant to cute weed! Lol they are meant to clip the top of the grass of a well maintain lawn.
Brent Hill They are called StaySharp, thus you do not have to sharpen as with others on a yearly basis and they sell a kit to resharpen it if needed which is simply a app brush to prep the blades with a wax and a crank to wind the blades in reverse to sharpen.
Sharpening is quite easy really. All you need to do is disconnect the drive and attach a power drill. Apply backlapping compound to the reel. Lower the reel to make slight contact with the bedknife and then use the power drill to spin the reel. Then your done.
I've had mine for 4 seasons now and use it to cut about 1/3 acre. I use a grass whip before I mow to knock down the seed stalks and other tall bits. grass whip for those who are scratching their head looks like this: www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1272540&cp=2568443.2568444.2598674.2601432.2602644.1260267
I don’t have issues with not cutting for a few days. Growth regulator keeps grass from growing vertically, not horizontally. Once you have grass where u like, put it down. Then use fiskars for lite trims here and there.
0:59 → This weakness can be overcome by making the blades discontinuous. I made a proof of concept video showing the discontinuous blade arrangement in action.
Hi, thegrayjedi5202. Congrats on owning a reel mower. You won't find any videos of stock reel mowers cutting tall stuff. They can't do it. You have to make a relacement for the helical blade on the mower yourself.
I have a DIY guide on the gardening section of stackexchange and a concept video here on RUclips but RUclips keeps knocking off my posts when I add the addresses to those.
Nope. It means having radial blades that can push past the tall stuff without knocking them to the ground and then snipping them against the bedknife as the radial blades circle around. Watch the concept video. You'll get a clearer idea of how it works from that.
Is this for reel? I'm not reelly a fan push push mowers, but this looks reelly neat. It would take a reelly long time to mow my acre and I'm sure I'd be reel tired.
I've had a cordless for 12 years, same battery. It was losing power the past few seasons, requiring an extra charge to finish the lawn. Today it died on me. So I just bought this Fiskar 18" (lightly used, 1 yr old, half of retail). I will probably get new batteries for my cordless though, and possibly convert it to LiFePO4 units. I was quite happy not having a gas mower for the past decade+.
Works great! ruclips.net/user/postUgkxprGGPRQoChQaA8u58dt7miEpxQBKiWeJ More difficult with longer grass, though, but I was expecting that. I have a small back yard, it seemed like overkill to buy a lawnmower with an engine. This is easy to carry in and out of the basement through the bulkhead. Very sharp (be careful). At the back of the mower are little wheels, which I use when pulling the mower backwards, so it's easy to readjust direction. I'm including a photo which shows the before and after for my lawn when it was at its longest. For long grass like that you really have to put some muscle into it, and I needed to go into a new section of grass with some momentum, but when the grass is only an inch or two higher than regular cut height it's quite easy. The lawn is still patchy and full of weeds, but at least it's a good height! A step in the right direction.
Jeep Man Push Reel are more for small lawns less than two acres or smaller than 1, or if you got a yard that is challenging to use a wider power mower in. In my opinion, if i had a lawn your size and had some difficult areas that the power mower can not reach I would get this Fiskar for those difficult areas.
David Willison I see your poiint and agree but i have way too much grass to cut to use a push mower. I think its hilarious to see my neighbors cutting their tiny back yard with a riding mower. I have a commercial lawn care business so yeah i dont have the time of day to use a push mower.
I don't think so. It is a "Stay Sharp", frictionless blade design by which the reel blade doesn't actually contact. If you are using it, and hearing that ubiquitous blade sound of reel mowers, or stopping immediately after your movement stops, then your blade is misaligned, or improperly maintained.
Thumbs up if you came here after listening about the kitten and chicken scaring lawn mower monster where you learned nothing about this Fiskars Mower!!!
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That is the opinion of people that have never used a reel mower, or have only used the cheapest variety of said mower, sure. A quality one (costing relatively the same as a cheap gas mower), will cut just almost just as well, cost zero to maintain, and cut your air, and noise pollution down to nothing. They don't need to be oiled, gassed, or taken into to the shop except for sharpening every few years. I have never pulled out my reel mower to do the lawn and had to say "Oh damn, the mower is acting up. It won't start for me."
Sucks bad? The guy had foot long grass that a gas mower would struggle with. These things work great if you have actual grass (not a weed farm) that is a normal height.
ElectricFrostBites in my experience you have to go over crab grass 2 or 3 times with a reel mower (only 4" thick). I'll just stick to my new gas mower lol.
This mower is a piece of junk. You say it cuts well.... Have you ever used a gas lawnmower? It looks all this does is flatten the grass down. You'd have more success rolling a 55 gallon drum around the yard.
As mentioned in the video, this mower doesn't cut seed stalks with a single forward pass. This is because the tall stalks are held down below the cutting bed by the bar in front of the reel. With some practice I've learned to pull the mower backwards back over the uncut stalk so that the reel is an inch or two behind the stalk. Then with a quick forward thrust of the mower, the stalk usually bows up into the path of the reel and gets cut. Sometimes I don't get it on the first try, but I find that incorporating a sharp twist left or right as you thrust forward works pretty well. You have to pay attention and notice the stalks as they pop up behind the mower when you first pass over them. But I've gotten to the point where I pretty much do it automatically and the result is every bit as even as a power mower.
Just got this mower today and loved it already. Your video of such a thick tall lawn responding to it is encouraging. All it missed for me were a couple of weeds and few patches of grass that were 10 inches high. As the instructions point out, you may need to initially get the grass to a cuttable height i.e. less than 6 inches with a regular powered mower, then should be able to keep up easily with this and do a uniform job. No upkeep, no recharging, no gas and oil to buy, no flooding of engine, no blades that require at least yearly sharpening if you don't just want to tear the grass, no filters to change/wash - betting I can mow more often easily without a flinch. With its convenience, do not have to think twice about just doing a small portion of the lawn if that is all the time I have. From the design of it, it is definitely not for heavily pine coned or fruit laden yards, crabgrass or weed lawns - has to be for a lawn that has regular attention.
Was just at Lowes looking at one. At this point I'm sold on the idea of owning a Fiskers reel mower. Thanks for posting the video
Today I bought a reel mower, my grass was tall, it took hours and I am super tired. Guess I will develop some solid upper body strength with that thing.
Just buy a motor one next time. Manual lawn mowers don't work
@@kvin9210 I gotta say my lawn is looking great since I keep it mowed. Yeah it's a bit of work, but the reel mower cuts beautifully without choking me with fumes
I use mine as an excuse to get some extra cardio into my life and be active so I actually like all the work it takes lol. The results are lovely too so I don't mind.
I always wanted one of these, I obviously would not replace my gas mowers to take care of lawns but they look cool
Gas reel mowers are WAYYY better than normal gas mowers
@@Octizm I know they are a lot better for clean lawns that look really nice, but the lawns I take care of are big hills with lots of trees and grass that grows way too fast in one week to look nice without good mulching.
The brand is "Fiskars". It's written right on the mower.
Yeah, that is definitely the wrong application for this mower. Looks like it would be a great mower for most well kept lawns and ecological and health conscious people.
best review on this mower, I like your humor .
I use this on my 1/2 acre it does well and I'm happy with it
I bought one recently. Yeah it doesn't do the best if your lawn is overgrown but after a few passes it works just fine. Or use a weed eater to break up the majority, then sweep with this thing. I love it.
Thank for the video, Seriously though more your lawn more often or if it really grows that fast in 1 week you should consider starting a garden in that soil :).
Or mow every other day, OR get a gas mower
Yes if you follow the thirds rule there'll be no choking. Good point on front discharge recut. I thought the only drawback was no mulching but recut may take care of that.
Fiskars does offer a clipping catcher that mounts forward of the blades. It is a open top design of course so you fill the basket more than a bagger can hold. Nice Electric weed wacker would take care of those pesky stalks.
of course exactly this model is made for higher grass. you just have to be conscious about going faster turns the reel faster. faster is better cut in this case.
You can mow with a regular lawn mower or use a string trimmer to get the grass lower rake the grass and compost that
grass and enhance the compost with all natural ingredients . Then use your reel mower maintain . You can use compost
Anywhere on your yard. Even to v over seed . Or to improve the soil near wher the grass meets bare spots..
Thanks for the mowing tips Dr. Phil
Finally a decent review of the Fiscars mower. Good job! BTW all push mowers have problems with very long grass.
Get it....”No reel problems...” 😂🤣😃
Props to you Dr. Zarkoff! Some of the stuff you show cutting here, I'd have problems with my gas mower!
I returned the mower. It wasn't working out very well on the really tall grass. I bought a Ryobi 16 in. 40-Volt Lithium Cordeless Electric Lawn Mower with 2 Batteries. It didn't last very long. It kept cutting out on me. I thought that maybe the battery had a problem so I went to switch batteries but the battery wouldn't come out. I think that it welded the contacts together. I'm waiting for Home Depot to send me a replacement mower. My neighbor was kind enough to lend me his gas mower for now.
LOL
That remined me of when I was a kid, it was the only thing we had. It was always my job to mow, seemed it was never sharp, even if my dad sharpened it.
I have a 22 inch mower now and have heard about Toro's Timemaster with a 30 inch cut. More width = less time. More power = no sore muscles afterwards. My next mower is a 30 inch Toro.
Used to own a push mower. Works well only if you have decent size lawn and don't mind to cut frequently. btw, Dr Z calls the "uphill" a "high side". Glad he didn't call a "discharge line." lol
Good video, fun video. Thanks as always !
I have been debating on a cheaper reel mower just because of one issue. Hills. I live on the corner of a street and have 4' grassy embankment going all along both. I love my gas mower, it serves me well, but weather it is power assisted or not hills are back breaking. Hopping something much lighter to push around would make things easier.
You need to cut the grass more often you are letting it to tall if you are getting seed stalks. I love these videos were people are talking about how they don't work on tall grass. .
The reason it wasn't cutting the stalks is because you have it to high if you set it lower height then you should be able to cut those seed stalks. what i suggest is run it on the high like you had it for the first pass of the entire yard then run it on the low in a second pass of the yard and that should take care of the seed stalks.
Nope, I can tell you from 4 years with one that you need to use something like a grass whip or weed eater to knock the seed stalks down to a cut-able height.
killerbliss1 no. Reel mowers arnt meant to cut weeds. Iv used reel mowers on really nice golf courses and even spinning at 3000rpm won't cut a damn weed because they arnt meant to cute weed! Lol they are meant to clip the top of the grass of a well maintain lawn.
Twice a week would work, also people around me mow maybe once a month lol.
Best review ever.
This reel mower isn't meant for that type of lawn. It's pretty much meant to cut little clipping of the top of a well maintain lawn
would be great for small lawns. seems to cut well. sharpening those blades looks like a pain though.
Brent Hill They are called StaySharp, thus you do not have to sharpen as with others on a yearly basis and they sell a kit to resharpen it if needed which is simply a app brush to prep the blades with a wax and a crank to wind the blades in reverse to sharpen.
Sharpening is quite easy really. All you need to do is disconnect the drive and attach a power drill. Apply backlapping compound to the reel. Lower the reel to make slight contact with the bedknife and then use the power drill to spin the reel. Then your done.
This mower has built in sharpening, that what you said is the old way of sharpening.
Or you could get those sandpaper strips off amazon.
I've had mine for 4 seasons now and use it to cut about 1/3 acre. I use a grass whip before I mow to knock down the seed stalks and other tall bits.
grass whip for those who are scratching their head looks like this:
www.acehardware.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1272540&cp=2568443.2568444.2598674.2601432.2602644.1260267
I don’t have issues with not cutting for a few days. Growth regulator keeps grass from growing vertically, not horizontally. Once you have grass where u like, put it down. Then use fiskars for lite trims here and there.
Reely, Reely nice!
lol
Fiskars does make bags for their mowers ...
That should be called Cardio worker 9000 lol
Looks fun let me have a go at it
0:59 → This weakness can be overcome by making the blades discontinuous. I made a proof of concept video showing the discontinuous blade arrangement in action.
I just got a reel mower and was wondering what to do in this situation. There’s almost no video on how to handle the actual taller stalks.
Hi, thegrayjedi5202. Congrats on owning a reel mower. You won't find any videos of stock reel mowers cutting tall stuff. They can't do it. You have to make a relacement for the helical blade on the mower yourself.
I have a DIY guide on the gardening section of stackexchange and a concept video here on RUclips but RUclips keeps knocking off my posts when I add the addresses to those.
@@solardarkness159 I appreciate the reply! So does such a replacement mean having LESS blades so they can catch the tall stuff easier?
Nope. It means having radial blades that can push past the tall stuff without knocking them to the ground and then snipping them against the bedknife as the radial blades circle around. Watch the concept video. You'll get a clearer idea of how it works from that.
Is this for reel? I'm not reelly a fan push push mowers, but this looks reelly neat. It would take a reelly long time to mow my acre and I'm sure I'd be reel tired.
Damn best review not like the other cheap ones that only cut 10 seconds and go buy one thanks :)
Don't let the haters get you down! Edward Scissorhands doesn't have anything on you!
It beats a pair of scissors. That's all i got right now.
Fiskars makes a grass catcher for it.
The narrator is literally Billy Bob Thornton
This and a scythe! 🕺🏼
😎sorted! 👍🏼
This is what I like to see
LOL great video I see we have the same green thumb lol
Is it worth the price tag?
I just got a cordless electric mower
+ab30494 What electric mower did you get, I'm looking at possibly getting the Ego electric self propelled. Thanks!
i got the Worx 56v mower, I love it it works great
I've had a cordless for 12 years, same battery. It was losing power the past few seasons, requiring an extra charge to finish the lawn. Today it died on me. So I just bought this Fiskar 18" (lightly used, 1 yr old, half of retail). I will probably get new batteries for my cordless though, and possibly convert it to LiFePO4 units. I was quite happy not having a gas mower for the past decade+.
Nice video!
yea. it could be ME by reading too much hvac books ;) i notice myself using words like pressure, efficiency, capacity, etc... oh gee...
drz lawn mowers? LOL ,,,,how about some control wiring maybe? :-))))),,,,love your work thanks for all you do boss :-))))
This mower is going to have a hard life.
How long would that take on a 1 acre yard?
Forever
After 8 years would you still recommend this mower?
Works great! ruclips.net/user/postUgkxprGGPRQoChQaA8u58dt7miEpxQBKiWeJ More difficult with longer grass, though, but I was expecting that. I have a small back yard, it seemed like overkill to buy a lawnmower with an engine. This is easy to carry in and out of the basement through the bulkhead. Very sharp (be careful). At the back of the mower are little wheels, which I use when pulling the mower backwards, so it's easy to readjust direction. I'm including a photo which shows the before and after for my lawn when it was at its longest. For long grass like that you really have to put some muscle into it, and I needed to go into a new section of grass with some momentum, but when the grass is only an inch or two higher than regular cut height it's quite easy. The lawn is still patchy and full of weeds, but at least it's a good height! A step in the right direction.
Do you ever need to sharpen it ?
how many blades
Can't drink ?
yeah ill stick to my Toro time cutter. 23 hp 42 inch cutting deck it takes me all of 20 minutes to cut about 5 acres.
Haha. Yeah right.
Jeep Man Push Reel are more for small lawns less than two acres or smaller than 1, or if you got a yard that is challenging to use a wider power mower in. In my opinion, if i had a lawn your size and had some difficult areas that the power mower can not reach I would get this Fiskar for those difficult areas.
Probably the problem with most people...no care for the planet we live on and to lazy hence the obesity and fat people lmao
David Willison I see your poiint and agree but i have way too much grass to cut to use a push mower. I think its hilarious to see my neighbors cutting their tiny back yard with a riding mower. I have a commercial lawn care business so yeah i dont have the time of day to use a push mower.
He sounds like Harry Dunn 😂
Es mejor que cortar con machete.
will it mulch leaves?
Is it even a reel mower if the blades don't touch another blade? The whole idea was scissor cut, but this is just like a rotary.
So cute
You don't even have grass
Lol.
lol
You need a rotary mower for that. Or a goat.
Have to lower it
Nice legs also! Why you use such a young looking guy to play an old guy I'll never know. I guess just for rating, huh?
Take that greenie mower to the scrap yard. Get a rechargeable battery operated mower.
That reel mower cost $200
Yeah I like this better bc on a lawn mower the gas stinks and the sound is annoying and the rumbling that irritates your arms
why not show it mowing a lawn and not a field!
You seem to have a drinking problem 04:33
😂👍
Timemaster is garbage, I just sold mine on Craigslist. Read the bad reviews on it because those are the real ones.
I think your blade is too loose.
I don't think so. It is a "Stay Sharp", frictionless blade design by which the reel blade doesn't actually contact. If you are using it, and hearing that ubiquitous blade sound of reel mowers, or stopping immediately after your movement stops, then your blade is misaligned, or improperly maintained.
Tom Dee the blade is fine. Real mowers arnt meant for that type of lawn lol
these are not made for tall grass, duh !! and rake those leaves up for god sake.
Oh ok.
For me, gas is the best.
Fuck that just buy a used gass push mover save time an effert
Really long
Even a gas powered non self propell would do that yard in less than half the time of that reel mower
Thumbs up if you came here after listening about the kitten and chicken scaring lawn mower monster where you learned nothing about this Fiskars Mower!!!
Robert Kielbasa omg ... frigging dying! I just came here from that nut job chick! hahaha 😂😂
You have it set on the hugest setting ofcourse it won’t cut that patch gtfoh
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Dude, mow your lawn more often...
Next time,,, Burn it...
that thing cuts like shit
Its a piece of shit.
it sucks bad...
That is the opinion of people that have never used a reel mower, or have only used the cheapest variety of said mower, sure. A quality one (costing relatively the same as a cheap gas mower), will cut just almost just as well, cost zero to maintain, and cut your air, and noise pollution down to nothing. They don't need to be oiled, gassed, or taken into to the shop except for sharpening every few years. I have never pulled out my reel mower to do the lawn and had to say "Oh damn, the mower is acting up. It won't start for me."
Sucks bad? The guy had foot long grass that a gas mower would struggle with. These things work great if you have actual grass (not a weed farm) that is a normal height.
OMGWTFLOL i must say as a brit with nice grass some of you guys grass is horrible 😂
OMGWTFLOL Why won't it work on weeds such as crab grass if it isn't tall?
ElectricFrostBites in my experience you have to go over crab grass 2 or 3 times with a reel mower (only 4" thick). I'll just stick to my new gas mower lol.
This mower is a piece of junk. You say it cuts well.... Have you ever used a gas lawnmower? It looks all this does is flatten the grass down. You'd have more success rolling a 55 gallon drum around the yard.
ya it sucks i rather buy a used mower then that bull
Yeah, I did. Kind of a worthless review.
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