Toro 6.5 Horsepower 22 in. recycling lawn mower

by Kate
(Massachusetts)

Packaging was very nicely done. No damage in transit. The instruction booklets are easy to read and accessible. We needed to attach the handles and add oil when it arrived. Oil was already provided in the box.

The mower starts up every time on the first try. I have a bit of a hill in my front yard so mowing that area can be a challenge. The self-propelled feature makes it extremely easy to mow that area as well as the rest of the lawn.

If I had to complain about one small thing it would be that the bars (self-propelled drive bar and the blade control bar) are not labeled as such, so if it’s been a while between mowing, I’ll sometimes forget which is which and will have to guess when I start it. (As you can imagine, it doesn’t start if I’m holding the self-propelled instead of the blade control!)

There is a hose attachment on the top that allows you to attach a hose directly to the mower to wash off the blades when you’re done mowing. That makes for extremely easy clean-up and maintenance.

Although we haven’t used the bagging feature, it looks very easy to attach and remove. If one lived in a city environment where they needed to bag and haul away their grass clippings I think it would be a very convenient feature.

I would recommend this mower to people with small to medium sized yards. It move quite fast when you use the self-propelled feature (sometimes I even have to rein it in a little bit when it gets ahead of me on thick grass!) and it would make quick work of most average sized yards.