does anyone have a ride on mower???

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and if so, what kind,is it good, crap, what should we buy/avoid. Any advice gratefully received.

When you get it can I come round and play on it!!

We have an Ancient Westwood, which has been brilliant but is now limping through it's last years! (We bought it with our house 9 years ago and it was old then).

The reason we love it is it has an enormous brush sweeper that is the ONLY thing that copes with picking up the huge quantities of leaves we get each year, so in the Autumn we use it weekly to clear the garden without mowing.

Beware though, they cost as much as a small car to service each year - but it arrives back fully valeted!

DS has been mowing our lawn since he was about 10, and riding it alone since he could reach the pedals

When it finally gives up, we will definately get another Westwood.

certainly mspontipine, the westwood sounds great, do you know how much they are?

we have one with a mulching deck - which means you don't have to collect the grass clippings - MUCH easier.

FIL has one that in a pain when reversing - ours is very easy you just use the other pedal.

Can't for the life of me remember what it is though - will google and get back to you if I find it.

wow that was easy ! It is a countax - here.

Not cheap if I recall but very much better than the cheaper make FIL got.

by the way we have had ours for maybe 5 years and have only ever serviced it ourselves (well DH not me ) - and it happily tackles very long grass - although you probably have to go back and recut a few times when it is very long (we have a young woodland area that we only cut once or twice a year and it copes with that).

I am on a roll here. Ours has a tow hitch on it too and we attach a trailer to it - VERY popular with visiting kids for riding round on (the mose popular thing when we had a kids party - no interest at all in all my carefully prepared games once DH got out the mower).

keep goimg, what attachments should we get and which are a waste of time

um - we don't have any attachments - just the basic mower with the mulching cutter deck.

Westwood site

Apparently ours was made in 1983!! That's how old! We love the brush collector (purely for the leaves). Haven't got a mulcher but love the idea - didn't know they could do that!

Ours also has a roller which is gathering moss. Previous residents had the lawn looking like a cricket green - but they had no kids There wasn't even a daisy! Now, it's like anyone elses who has kids riding bikes, playing footie, trampolining etc on it.

Ours is a Countax - and they cost a fortune to service! Every year something goes wrong with it.

Still, the boys like their toys.