Germany
Workshop machinery, pointed at a garden
Scheppach comes to the garden from the woodworking bench, and the range here reads that way. Where the shelf has gone cordless it has stayed with engines and cables, and where others have gone to moulded housings it has stayed with pressed steel.
It appears on nine shelves, and the pattern is machines rather than consumables: mowers, a scarifier, a tiller, a shredder, a pump, a roller — plus its own blades and wheels as spares.
What that means for a reader is that the listings carry engine figures. A displacement in cubic centimetres and a power figure are printed where a cordless listing would offer a platform voltage and nothing else. Neither set is comparable with the other, and this site prints each as what it is.
The hand cylinder mower is the outlier in the range and the most interesting entry: a shelf with four manufacturers on it, and this is one of them.
420 cm³, 9 kW / 12 PS, 120 mm, 2 reversible blades, 120 kg
The largest machine on this site: 120 kg, 9 kW, 120 mm branches on two reversible blades, with electric start.
Best for: A smallholding, a large wooded plot, or shared use between neighbours
30 cm, 5 steel blades, 15–35 mm in 4 steps, 15.2 L
Five steel blades on a ball-bearing cylinder, four heights from 15 to 35 mm, and a 15.2-litre box — the cheapest way to cut grass with scissors.
Best for: A small, level, already-maintained lawn cut every few days at a short height
600 W, 3 300 l/h, 35 m head, 3.5 bar, 8 m suction, G1"
3 300 l/h, 35 m head, 3.5 bar and an 8 m suction height, with G1" suction and delivery ports.
Best for: A medium garden watered from a butt or a cistern, where the numbers need to be checkable before buying
32 cm, 1500 W, 16 blades + 36 claws, 4 depths, 30 L
Both cartridges in the box — 16 blades and 36 aerator claws — on a 1500 W mains machine with a 30-litre catcher.
Best for: A small to medium lawn being scarified for the first time, where both operations will be tried
1500 W, 450 mm wide, 220 mm deep, 24 blades, 400 rpm
1500 W and twenty-four blades at 400 rpm across 450 mm, 220 mm deep, with an instant start and a folding handle.
Best for: A large bed or vegetable plot, and a buyer who wants to check the price against another country
42 cm, 3.4 PS four-stroke, 45 L catcher, 25–75 mm
A 42 cm push mower with a seven-step central height adjustment and a wash-out port — the cheapest engine on this shelf, and the least of a machine.
Best for: A small to medium lawn where an engine is wanted for the grass rather than for the area
A 57 cm drum at 0.95 kg per centimetre filled — the lowest ground pressure here — with a two-sided adjustable scraper and both fill weights stated.
Best for: A large open lawn where the extra width saves passes and the corners are not tight
The only wheel here sold with a bearing named, for nine machines across two brands — with the same year-of-manufacture warning as its blades.
Best for: One of the nine named machines, where a rolling bearing is worth the difference over a bush
A 3-in-1 combination blade at 530 mm for six named machines — with a warning to check the year of manufacture first.
Best for: One of the six named petrol machines, after checking its year
