Best Mountfield Petrol Mowers UK 2023 

Which Brands are Best Known for Making Petrol Mowers?

If you search online for a petrol lawnmower, the same brands will appear time after time. These include:

• Einhell
• Feider
• Hyundai
• Mountfield
• Murray
• Parkerbrand
• Scheppach
• Sprint
• Webb
• Yard Force

So as you can see, Mountfield appears on the list of manufacturers who make petrol mowers. Their mowers are powered by STIGA and Honda engines. The good news is they are easy to start and have been specifically designed to offer optimum speed for high performance.

They have a nice range of cutting widths, and you can also choose from hand-propelled or self-propelled. The prices vary depending on the features that you want, and those include the cutting width, engine size, type of propulsion and what the mower is actually made from. (Steel or polypropylene)

How To Pick the Best Petrol Mower for Your Needs?

Mountfield make around 24 different models of petrol mower. Now while it is good to have choice, knowing which one to pick can get a bit confusing. Just below we have offered a few tips on how to quickly narrow down that selection.

There are 3 main features that you should really consider when buying a Mountfield petrol mower. Those are the cutting width, a hand propelled vs self-propelled mower and the type of engine and its size.

Size of Garden & Cutting Width

This is always the best place to start. It is very easy to quickly work out the size of your gardens. Simply pace out the approximate length and breadth of your gardens. (usually front, side and rear). A long pace is about a metre long so pace out the length of each garden and then the breadth.

As an example, my own rear garden is about 15 metres long and 7 metres in width. Multiply those 2 numbers together and you get 105 square metres. Then repeat that process for all your gardens and you will get an approximate square metre size.

Understanding the Cutting Width

All lawnmowers have a cutting width, and that can range in size from as low as 30cm (12") up to around 53 cm(21")

So, if you push your mower down one length of your garden, the cutting width is the width of grass your mower will actually cut. A mower with a 39 cm cutting width for example, will cut 39cm of grass, so to cover a metre will take 3 passes of your mower.

The easiest way to remember this is that the wider the cutting width, the less number of passes you will have to do, and the quicker you will get your grass cut.

Engine Size

Honestly, if you ask 1,000 people which is the best engine size for a mower, you will get a whole variety of answers. The better question to ask yourself is, "which engine is best for me?"

The things you should really consider is the garden size which we have explained above, the shape of your garden including any slopes, the starting system and the level of maintenance they will require. Our strong advice would be to buy the best engine size that you can afford.

Most of us don't need an engine powerful enough to cut a football pitch or a cricket pitch. Something like a 123 cc engine is powerful enough for most people.

Also remember that all petrol mowers need maintenance with reference to oil levels, oil filters, spark plugs, the drive mechanism on self propelled mowers, and then general maintenance of the blade and making sure the underside of the deck is cleaned.

Decking Construction

The decking on a mower is basically the lower part of the mower where the blades are housed. To keep mowers lighter and also to make them cheaper, plastic is often used. It is a tough plastic and usually it is polypropylene. This is a thermoplastic polymer used in a wide variety of applications such as bottle tops, bottles, pipes etc.

It is mainly used for plastic mouldings as it is tough enough and yet has some movement in it.

Some Mountfield mowers use this material for the decking. However, the slightly better made ones use steel as it is simply tougher and stronger. It does of course make the mower heavier, but adds to the overall quality of the mower.

The Mulching Plug

When people mow their lawns, the grass is typically collected in a grass box or a grass bag attached to the lawnmower. This can then be emptied into a recycling bin, or put onto a compost heap to make compost.

However, many experienced gardeners understand, that sometimes it is better to not collect the grass, and allow the small trimmings to remain on the lawn. These can act as a natural mulch, and help protect your lawn, retain moisture and improve its overall quality.

Good quality mowers have what is called a mulching plug to achieve this. Instead of attaching the grass box, you insert the mulching plug, and this pushes the cuttings downwards into the lawn. Some will do this by pushing them out the front of the mower, and others push the cuttings out of the rear of the mower.