CEL CY1 Cordless Cylinder Lawnmower: RATING: 2 Stars
First, FOUR warnings which I did not pick up in the reviews and literature.
1.The brochure says the battery only lasts 2 years. Replacement cost in 2011: £45........whoops, that's expensive mowing. Where's the new battery technology? My old Jeep's battery is 12 years old!
2. If you've got any characterful undulations in your lawn, you've got problems. You'll get stuck easily.
3. If you don't mind not cutting to within 4 inches of an edge, don't worry, it won't without a lot of hard pushing and to-ing and fro-ing.
4. If you don't mind re-fixing the grass collector to the mower 30 times in half an hour, don't worry either! It's good exercise for the back. I would allege that clearly the grass collector assembly was an after-thought.
So, if you've got a postage-stamp shaped lawn the verdant equivalent of the Utah Salt Flats, and you don't mind stooping to re-fix the grass collector every minute, and you don't mind buying a new battery every two years (assuming this company is still trading), then I'd say buy it. It's reasonably priced, practically light, easy to store on a wall, reasonably solidly made, safe, and the instructions are comprehensive.
Secondly, all-in-all, I would allege that the designers and manufacturers of this product have never mown a lawn and never tested it on anything more challenging than a perfectly flat surface. It has its applications I'm sure, but not for real gardeners looking for a small, practical, scrupulously efficient little mower!
TH, Somerset