Our team was split on how comfortable it is. It essentially forces you to have your hands at an angle instead of giving you an angled section and a flat section. With their updated mower, DeWalt shifted the handle design and it comes to a more narrow top section than before. If anything, giving the mower that upward force let the wheels pull the mower faster than I wanted to go. Even though the wheels were slipping a little, I didn’t feel like I was working any harder. While I was mowing, I walked at a comfortable pace without having to do anything different than normal. It sounds like a pain in the neck, but it’s actually not that bad. You need to provide a little bit of upward force to push the front down to get full traction. However, the weight is back just enough that the rubberized tires (which we love!) aren’t able to get their full traction while you’re mowing. Going with front-wheel drive isn’t a bad call in and of itself. When you encounter thicker grass, be prepared to ease up on the drive bars a little so you can slow down. The most noticeable is that when the blade speed increases in tougher grass, the drive speed steps up with it. There are some consequences of the design. When you crank it up to “high” speed, you’re able to put full belt tension on the pulley and drive at the fastest speed. By allowing a little bit of belt slip, your drive is slower. On the “slow” speed side, it puts less tension on the belt and pulley. This adjusts the cable so you can set the drive bars to engage the pulley at the most comfortable level for you. If you look under the drive control area, there’s a small dial. It’s very similar to the controls on our Husqvarna self-propelled mower. Instead of having a button, dial, or slider, you just need to adjust how much pressure you put on the drive control bars. The cable connected to the controls puts increasing pressure on a pulley to adjust your speed. Rather than having a separate motor drive the wheels, DeWalt uses a more traditional belt system and connects it to the front wheels. As we walk through it (or behind it, lol), keep in mind that this system is designed to mimic the way gas-powered mowers work. DeWalt 2x20V Max Self-Propelled Lawn Mower Design Notes Drive SystemĭeWalt’s drive system design may cause some confusion if you’re used to battery-powered lawn mowers already. That’s enough to cover most 1/4-acre lawns on one charge and up to 1/3 of an acre for some grass species. Many battery mowers only bag and mulch, and we appreciate the side discharge option with how fast our grass grows here in Florida.įor most moderate cutting, expect 45+ minutes of runtime. The DeWalt 2x20V Max Self-Propelled Lawn Mower comes with everything you need to bag, mulch, and side discharge. That’s not unusual, even for a residential gas mower. The mower doesn’t have a strong ejection to consistently clear all the grass, so it clogs up fairly quickly. That tells us it has plenty of power, but you want to avoid cutting your lawn that way full-time. In DeWalt’s case, its minimum cutting height of 1 1/2 inches did just fine cutting a clean swath through. To test cutting power, we drop the mower deck all the way down and see how well it handles 4 1/2-inch grass.
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