Germany
The parts catalogue behind a machine range
AL-KO is on six shelves here and the split is what makes it useful: a hand cylinder mower and a scarifier on the machine side, and on the accessory side a blade, a grass box and a mulching wedge that each name the machine they belong to by model designation.
That is rarer than it sounds. The blade, catcher and mulching shelves on this site are dominated by sellers who publish a length and then a list of forty machines, and the list is doing the work a specification would do. A part described as fitting one named range is a part whose fit is not in question.
The scarifier shelf is where the machine range shows: petrol, with a working width stated, on a shelf where most of the competition is electric.
For anyone who owns one of these machines, the practical value of the brand on this site is the spares shelves rather than the machine ones.
38 cm, non-contact cut, 4 heights, 7.7 kg, 250 m²
The widest cylinder mower here at 38 cm and the only published weight — 7.7 kg — with non-contact cutting and 22 cm wheels.
Best for: A larger small lawn — up to a couple of hundred square metres — kept genuinely short
38 cm, 1.4 kW / 79 cm³, 14 blades + 48 tines, −14 to +6 mm, 55 L
A 79 cm³ petrol machine with 14 blades or 48 sprung tines, a −14 to +6 mm depth range and a 55-litre catcher.
Best for: A large lawn out of reach of a socket, scarified properly once or twice a year
One line of text and nine named machines across electric, petrol and premium ranges — the most machines of any listing here.
Best for: Any of the nine named machines from this maker’s 46 cm range
Fabric on a metal frame at 50 litres and 1.5 kg, with metal hooks for lifting on and off the cylinder mower.
Best for: The one cylinder mower it names, where a large bag is wanted over a light one
A light plastic wedge for exactly two machines — with the clearest explanation on this shelf of what mulching does in summer.
Best for: Either of the two named petrol mowers
Half again heavier per centimetre than the rest of this shelf — 75 kg with water, 121 kg with sand.
Best for: Settling new turf and levelling a frost-heaved surface, where light rolling does nothing
