Fiskars Momentum: The Eco-Friendly Push Reel Lawn Mower
Fiskars explains the environmental benefits of using the Momentum reel mower, such as not using gas fuel. Also, this particular mower creates a cleaner cut, leaving grass strong and healthy. For additional videos on lawn mowers and mower maintenance, visit www.Lowes.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Greenworks 25072 20-Inch 4-Blade Push Reel Lawn Mower With Grass Catcher
- 6-Inch rear wheels
- 10-inch front wheels
- Height adjustable from 1-3/4-inch to 2-3/4-inch
- Weighs 30.8-pounds
- 4 Year Parts & Labor Warranty
Rating: 
(out of 2 reviews)
List Price: $ 119.99
Price: $ 119.99
Question by Nathan: What are the materials used in a 1930s reel lawn mower? How is it made?
The make is Great States Corp.
Best answer:
Answer by Cakes
here are some images of antique reel mowers:
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=b1ie7&va=antique+reel+mower&sz=all
this site sells great states reel mowers:
http://www.reelmowersetc.com/
antique or vintage would probably be good search words plus “forum” if u want it to include a discussion forum:
http://search.yahoo.com/
general lawn links:
http://www.dmoz.org/Home/Gardening/Landscaping/Lawns/
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!
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@daw162 OMG, I tottaly agree with you, I have a reel mower and it won’t cut longer grass ends up making a crapy job. Thinking to go back to gas. Was hoping to find a video that shows how to cut longer grass but did’nt find any ;-(
@daw162 I just can’t find a residential grade powered reel mower though. Only oldies or commercial. I’d like a Brill gas powered one, ideally. No touch, nicely built.
@daw162 Yes your right, a reel move ’scissors’ the grass without standing it up. This creates a canopy to shade the earth at a much lower height than a rotary which sucks the blades up to cut which means you need taller grass to shade the earth. My Brill is max height 43mm I think. At that height I wasn’t watering my grass any more often than the neighbour.
@fireworkstube oh yeah, almost forgot, a motor would take care of small sticks, too, which ruin your day with a push powered mower.
The thing that stopped me most often on a jacobsen F10? Ground hog carcasses!! Had to turn the reel to get them back out.
Even though it was ground driven, it would cut a golf ball in half and fling the top out through the reels like nothing – just heard a “clang” when it did it.
@fireworkstube I agree. I like the way the motorized and hydraulic reel machines work. I’m thinking about getting one of the gas powered machines for my yard – just have to find one that will let me cut at 2″ and do it well.
I recall from using reels, the lower the cut, the better the job. At 3/4″, grass fries fast, but it grows differently being done by reels, though, too, so at 1 1/2, maybe it’d be like a rotary mower at 2+.
@daw162 Completely agree. I have a Brill/Gardenia that I love. Pretty much the same no touch reel mower as Fiskar. I think a reel mower is a better mower but not without a power source. Some kind of engine would take care of all of the disadvantages as you can just go slower and let the blades do the work. With a push reel you have to go forward to get the reel to cut. That’s why you end up with 2) and 3). You also don’t need to worry about 1) with a motor. So the solution, add motor!
How has it been since that time? Did you check that the blades all cut via the paper test?
ok i got it already no engine no pollution. Jeeezus.
I’ve spent my share of time running reels on a jacobsen F10 – I would like them to show that thing trying to cut 4 inch tall grass. It would just lay over and cut less than half of the blades.
I’ll peek at that thing next time I go to lowes, out of curiosity, but it doesn’t get over the real problems mowing with a reel mower:
1) you have to mow MUCH more often
2) stuff will still get away unmowed
3) leafy and tall weeds won’t get touched
4) If you want a decent cut you have to go really short
made in china but priced high like it’s made in the western world like the other fiskars stuff?
ITS $249.00
i want one!
If you really wanted to go green you would plant a garden there. I love reel mowers, even though I believe that man caused climate change is a massive power grab, and will wind up being the biggest theft in history. If something was really killing us, like these chicken-little, Gore worshiping, people keep saying, then the solution would be a BAN, not a TAX.
I may get rid of my crap gas mower that always blows grass in my face with the bag installed. This would be a good way to go since I mow weekly. No more gas.
Yea, I’m not big on all this eco-hype stuff, but this mower probably makes a lot of financial sense. There would be virtually no maintenance or fuel costs, so the initial purchase price is basically all you’d ever have to spend on this thing. But, I think since they’re so new and really being reinvented right now with all the new design features, their price is still high and that keeps a lot of people away.
Really
@cjacustomwoodworking
sure why not, when at one point thanks to global warming, you won’t have a lawn to cut.
Enough with the environmental impact from cutting my lawn. So tired of all this Earth Day crap talk.
I bought this mower from “people powered machines” — and it cuts some grass, but merely pushes over a lot of it. No, it wasn’t too long. Here’s the response from the seller of this product to a question about why it wasn’t working:
“You might have to get a power mower for the first cut and then maintain with the Fiskars.” Now, why would I buy a power mower first, to then buy this to maintain?
This mower can’t bag like a rotary, and you put a lot of effort downwards to push it, leaving tracks on moist soil. No thanks.
I have a reel mower and it’s adjustable, so not sure what fiskars is referring to. I also wish this fiskars had a wider cut. they didn’t exactly explain how it cuts without the blades touching either. looks good to me but pricey – should be 150.00
They do make excellent scissor. They are very sharp and have fine quality steel.
@MrCamel1974 you do realize that Friskars is a Finland based company that has factories in the US.
lowes must be related to walmart all thay want is your money and sell you junk made in china that walmart fou you thay suck
i would not buy anything from these Lowe’s people they have the worst customer service ever…what a nightmare…these people will say anything just so they do not have to help you….they want your money but what u get in return is HELL.