Best Ryobi Ride-On Mowers
RYOBI 48V Battery-Powered Ride-On Mower
- Price (RRP) $4,999
- Power SourcesBattery (Removable)
- Cutting Width960 mm
- Height of Cut38 mm to 114 mm
Bought my Ryobi 48vztr ride on mower September 2014 and I was tickled pink with it, priding myself on little maintenance, no fuel worries and the… Read more
ability to charge it free from my solar panels. 18 months later my love affair with the greeny yellow beast has turned into serious regret for my stupidity in believing all the hyperbole from Ryobi. The motors kept cutting out and I concluded the 4 lead acid batteries had reached the end of their life and couldn't hold sufficient charge to run the cutting heads, so, at the cost of $1600 I replaced all four. Changing the batteries took a Herculean effort because the battery tray had to be winched out! The problem persisted. Bunnings handballed the problem to Ryobi Australia, who after much emailing sent me replacement controllers with no instructions on how to replace them. I worked it out and today crossed my fingers and began mowing. The cutting heads stopped after 2 minutes and refused to start. Where to from here? I've emailed Ryobi and asked them to replace the entire cutting deck but I am not hopeful. The next step will be lodging a complaint with Consumer Affairs to seek a complete refund as this product is not fit for purpose. I will keep you posted.
RYOBI 80V Lithium Zero Turn Ride-On Mower
- Price (RRP) $10,999
- Power SourcesElectrical
- Cutting Width42 mm
- Height of Cut25 mm to 100 mm
Poor Ergonomics – Trialled this lawn mower for a month on loan from my father-in-law - and not for me. Machine beautifully put together and a really excellent cutting… Read more
action - especially where mulching was concerned. But the joy-stick - an engineering marvel but an ergonomic nightmare. Problem was two fold. The joy-stick fights to return to neutral. In consequence, after a hour of lawn-mowing, my right forearm was in agony! The constant pressure on my arm made the mow extremely onerous. I found the support for the right-arm hopeless: the arm-rest was too far back, too high and too close to the centre of the machine - and it, unlike the arm-rest for the left arm, cannot be adjusted. Secondly, unlike with a traditional zero-turn, the joy-stick translates both side-to-side action and front-to-back action into drive/direction. With my less than bowling-green smooth lawn, this meant that every bump in the lawn transferred to the joy-stick and caused the mower to wobble. No problem when I was mowing in the middle of the law but extremely difficult maintaining a sure course when it came to trying to mow along edges and around fence -posts, etc.. The joy-stick was also a nightmare when it came to backing; a real trick trying to get the machine onto a trailer. It's extremely sensitive. I also found it difficult to judge the cutting edge on the left side of the machine - the side usually at issue when trying to cut close around edges and objects. The cutting deck is not in alignment with the front wheels on the left side - though it is on the right side - the side impeded by the grass shoot - and sits behind the rider. I think Ryobi would have been better advised to work on zero-turn steering-wheel technology like Ego, rather than the joy-stick.