I love, love, love this mower. I used to absolutely detest mowing - I hated the noise, petrol hassles and smell, smoke, trying to start the damn thing without having a heart attack from a ripcord designed for longer, stronger arms - and this mower has completely transformed lawn care for me. I researched extensively to find a mower to suit my needs as I was planting a new lawn and wanted a good result. I wanted clean, quiet, hassle free, and because I am a slender 5'4" female I needed it to be lightweight. I also wanted the steel base rather th...Read more

The complaints about the skirt dragging on the ground/grass on the lowest 2 settings are valid and they make the mower heavy to push at those settings especially if the grass is 'spongy'. It doesn't happen if you don't cut the grass short but it would affect most people at the height they mow a nice lawn. I fixed it by altering the blade mount to induce a slight bend in the blade to lower the blade tips by about 1/2". This isn't good for the public to do because of possible safety risk of messing with blade mount.
Other than that its a fantasti...Read more

Owned my new Victa battery powered lawnmower 21'' for under a week. Got off to a bad start, figuratively speaking, because one of the batteries was a complete dud that not even Bunnings could get to charge. Bunnings replaced it.

Mower seems to have power in abundance especially compared to my Victa enviromower. But I found the mower heavy especially with a heavier longer-charge battery so it means using the lighter shorter-charge battery on the hilly bits.

Big catcher. Battery re-charge time seems under 30 mins (haven't calculated) which giv...Read more

I bought the 18" cutting area so the battery wouldn't be overloaded trying to cut too much grass in one run. I use a 50% overlap of the previous mowed area. The engine definitely picks up pace when the going gets heavy and then reverts to a slower pace when not required, very clever! The metal cutting rim is much better than the previous plastic rim of the old mower, cut grass doesn't stick to it as much. I have very large grassed areas so need to do a recharge to finish. Recharging is very fast and only needs an hour before I can do the second...Read more

I have been thinking about purchasing the 21inch 82v Victa mower over the past 18months as I have the hedger, blower and line timmer which I like. But I have good 21 inch petrol mower and so have been hesitant about buying it. Any way the day before I bought it, I had mowed all of my lawn, impulse buy. But after getting it home I still wanted to test it as some of the reviews stated that the mower did not mow lower enough and I also wanted to see how much of my lawn I could mow on one battery. Putting the mower together did not take much and as...Read more

This replaced my Victa Enviromower, which is no longer available. This has a very similar chassis, handle, wheels, height adjustment to most petrol mowers. It is rated at 82 volts. The standard batteries are 2 amp/hour and I usually get my modest (130 square meters) lawn done on one or two batteries. It has all of the usual safety features . Separate key, battery needs to be locked in, dead mans type control. The catcher looks flimsy, so have never used it, but it works well as a mulching mower. The blades are floating, not fixed, so that redu...Read more

First review of this mower - see Feb 2018...
Still very pleased with this mower, but had an issue with it starting this morning! It has been standing for six months unused due to the drought taking it's toll and not having much grass to cut.

I decided to give it a run in any case, but it would not tick over when I tried to start it. The battery was fully charged and I soon discovered the problem was the 'KEY' - which required it to be wriggled a little it more than I had been doing - to make a better connection in the terminal chamber......A ...Read more

The Good: The battery life and charge time are impressive. It's very quiet and easy to use. It does an acceptable job if your lawn is short, dry and doesn't have too many bumps. I'm in Melbourne and it worked OK during summer when I bought it.

The Bad: As other reviewers have already stated the lowest blade height is WAY too high. It barely cuts any grass unless it's really long. The front of the mower is also too low which might be okay for a golf green, but it gets stuck on bumps if your lawn is not perfectly flat. The biggest flaw is ...Read more

The electric Victa 80v mower model number 1696788, my old was Victa petrol.
I hate the smell of petrol, mixing two stroke, check the oil, noise, pull start. And with all the things I don't like about the petrol mower I did expect some things not to be as good as I would like. And I was right.
Issues with it
1. the front of the mover is way to low, therefore gets stack on the grass in front of it, (they trying to make it too safe I think, C'mon Victa give us some credit)
2. the blades do not flick the cut grass hard enough to get to the catcher...Read more

I was so hesitant with purchasing the mower. But I gave it a try anyway. I have buffalo grass which most know its pretty thick. I was very concern it would not have enough power to cut through. Nevertheless, I ended up purchasing the 82V 21Inch and the edge trimmer at the same time.

1. Charging the battery took 30 mins as advertised.
2. The Mower is light as I have a funky shoulder. (love this)
3. I didn't use the catcher at all and used the mulch feature (OMG I Loved that)! No clippings!
4. I did roughly 130 Sqm Lawn (small-ish) and did NO...Read more