Victa Tornado TKS482 (Key Start)

Pretty good bit of gardening kit – The mower is fairly well built and found the mulcher was more than adequate for our needs. The engine starts well and the key start operates well so far. I've only used it for the last mowing of the season. But I am quite impressed so far. The only issue I found was assembling the catcher. I needed assistance back at the store to get it to come together properly. It requires a fair bit of pushing to get the prefabricated parts to lock together.

In the end I decided I did not need it as the mulcher worked well.

Excellent – Love it! It's my new favourite thing. I've literally gone from dreading doing the mowing because I could never get my old mower started and it would inevitably end in me swearing and cursing and then paying someone to come and mow ... to now, I can't wait to get out there and do the mowing! Key start (and easy pull start) on this Tornado, along with the incredibly effective mulching feature make it a really top notch mower. Five stars and two enthusiastic thumbs up! The key start is fantastic, no more wrestling with the pull start cord! Although I have started it with the cord, and it started first pull - unlike every other mower I have ever owned in the past. It's great, I'm really impressed with this mower. I haven't bothered to put the catcher on it yet, and have mowed my yard and huge footpath areas three times with it now. The mulch feature is probably the best thing i love about this mower. It makes mowing twice as fast because there is no need to stop and empty the catcher - and it works really great. You don't get sprayed with grass as you would with a normal mower using no catcher. And you don't get lines of cut grass because the mulcher must puts it back over the lawn - you really can't see where the cut grass has gone! it's incredible. Haven't found any problems yet, but have only had it two weeks. Will see how things go over time.