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Brand | HART |
Item model number | HLPM032VNM |
Color | White |
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Product Id | 2082538 |
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User Reviews and Ratings | 3 (1 ratings) 3 out of 5 stars |
UPC | 840092601101 |
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HART 40-Volt 21-Inch Steel Deck Perfect Pace Mower (2) 5.0Ah Lithium-Ion Batteries
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I was impressed upon unpacking the mower. Solid construction. Easy to start and use. Mulches grass well (depending on sharpness of blade). Blade is easy to remove for sharpening. No need to worry about gas or oil spilling out. Have only 2 issues. First, need to be sure the handles are properly secured. Sometimes a handle clamp will work its way loose, causing one side of handle to slide. Second, motor has a tendency to overheat and shut down (gets worse during warmer weather). When this occurs, I stop to trim while it cools down.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I did a 10,000 square feet with only one full charge with no problems at all, excellent machine just perfect for my yard
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I bought this Hart 40v lawn mower brushless .It's very easy to maneuver and operate .Just press the button and you ready to mower.Excellent tools.
[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Met all expectation for cost. Pleased with out of the box ready to use after 90 minute battery charge. Handled our large yard with no problems.
The mower mows great when you can get it to run. The handle is junk. Right now you have to fight with proper placement to get it to come on. Now the self propel comes on at full tilt even with that part locked out. Plus the battery charger wouldn't charge batteries.
Mower is great, warranty sucks. $18 part broke on mower on 3rd time using mower. Closest service center is a state away. Would not send me the part, wanted me to drive 2 1/2 hours to service center wand wait 3-4 days for them to get part, then drive 2 1/2 hours each way to pick back up. Ended up buying part online. Live in Des Moines Iowa. There are 300 Walmarts in Iowa but closest service center is Omaha Nebraska.
This self-propelled Hart is a much worse design than the REAL self-propelled mower Hart sold a few years ago. You have to do as much pushing to get the "push-to-propel" PerfectPace™ working as you do with the much cheaper non-propelled model. Save your money. I loved my older Hart ; it made mowing my bumpy lawn easy for this old gal. Very sorry I purchased this one. Having said that, it works and cuts more or less as advertised, but they seem to have a very short life expectancy, as do their batteries. I'll try another brand when this one dies.
Ordered online. Arrived on time. Box had some slight damage but contents appeared to be free of damage. Easy to set up. Charged both batteries. Unit looked good. However, the first couple of times I pressed the power button it did not start. Figured it was my inexperience. Reread the manual but saw nothing different to do than what I had done. Went back and repressed the starter button and it "stuttered" a few inches. but then it started and ran as I expected. There was a period of time where I experienced the normal "learning curve" from a gas mower to an electric mower but I quickly found that I really liked the mower. The battery only gave me about 20 to 25 minutes of power but the grass was a little higher than usual and I may have wasted a little time playing with my new toy. I also already own a Hart weed eater and a blower so I had two more batteries that will fit this mower. So, I always will have a charged battery ready to use. I changed batteries and restarted mowing. I stopped to change the cutting level (which is amazingly easy to do on this mower) and went back to mow and the mower never started again. I changed batteries, removed and reinserted the starter key, and the mower never even tried to start again. Even let it sit overnight to see if it would change its mind but, no. So I packed it back up and returned it to the local Walmart store (which is the big reason for trying this brand, you can just take it to a local Walmart!!!). I believe I was really beginning to like this mower. My wife and I have finally reached the age where dealing with gas mowers is just too difficult for us. But this mower, you just charge a battery and off you go. And it is so easy to fold up and store away. It is well thought out. I love my blower and weed eater also. The weed eater is light weight and easily cuts through even the toughest grass and weeds. And again, you just charge a battery and hit the button and you're in business. No gas, oil, spark plugs, pulling on a starter cord, etc. I will probably reorder another of these mowers and cross my fingers that it will work as well as my other two Hart machines. Oh, and by the way, the Perfect Pace Self-Propelled Technology works perfectly. When you go the mower goes and when you stop the mower stops. No arguments.
The mower itself is OK. The handles are annoying but it gets the job done. The batteries are a HUGE problem. This page says that this can cut 3/4th an acre on the two batteries provided. NOT. EVEN. CLOSE. It takes me 7 fully charged batteries to mow my 3/4th of an acre. And because the batteries can't immediately be charged after use as they are 'too hot' I can't mow and charge at the same time. And as the batteries COMPLETELY drain if you leave them around for a few days, you'll need to charge the batteries AGAIN for a few hours before you can get ready to mow at all. The batteries will also overheat while they are charging, and the status never changes back to charge mode, so you might just be waiting for no charge to happen. Not sure if I can return this, but will do my best. If you have more than .25 acres, do not purchase this.
Arrived with defective battery, rust covering the wheel link bar, small dent on the mower --- all of this noticed after opening the brand new box. Going into more detail now, I honestly don't know what to say. 1 of the 2 batteries will not charge (charger just does 2 rapid blinks). This means I now have to go through the hassle of contacting support and potentially having to take the battery/pack to an authorized Hart Repair shop. Looking on their website, the closest one is 1.5 hours away, so if that is the case, I would never recommend this brand to anyone. If they replace it by mail, I may change this review, but it still sucks that it arrived in a non-working state because it causes me concern for the longevity of this brand. Next, the link bar is covered in rust, which is crazy since it should be brand new? The rust can be seen in the attached pictures. The mower also arrived with a small dent in cutting deck, which also makes no sense, since the box itself was not damaged. I can only guess this dent happened during assembly and it was put into the box like that, which is again, very worrisome about potential other issues. Now, actual use. The movement assist, self-propelled feature, is terrible. It requires you to disengage locks, then push the handle into itself, so if you are not the exact right height for the mower, keeping it engaged is very, very awkward. My wife and I both had problems and we disliked it so much, that we ended up engaging the locks to turn it off. This means, we paid more money, for a feature that we wanted to have, but do not want to use due to how poorly designed it is. Why not just have a squeeze in handle like 99% of all other power assisted motors? When doing something new, it should be an improvement, not making it 10x worse. Also, the bagging appears to be significantly worse than any mower I have ever used in my life and grass is getting stuck all inside the housing that is within the cutting deck (it has plastic pieces that route air inside, that kicks it into the bag). It is moving grass into all those plastic pieces, which makes grass slowly come out the top. And, it doesn't appear to have enough power / air to push the grass back into the bag, so the bag only fills up about 1/3rd to 1/2 of the way. Next, the cutting is meh. I went from a 10 year old, Troy Bilt TB230, with the original blade (never sharpened) and that mower outperforms this one on cutting and bagging. The blade that comes with this mower, seems to have very little lift for bagging and it consistently leaves random grass strands that are taller than the rest. This means you have to keep spot checking for missed spots, due to the blade being so meh. Again, this never happened with my 10 year old, never sharpened, blade on my old mower. Overall, I would not recommend this. Having faulty parts, on arrival, having to deal with service centers that an hour and half away (required to take there to use that 5 year warranty!), and lackluster performance should make anyone weary for longevity. Going to see how Hart deals with these issues. If their support is good, may end up sticking it out. If not, will just return to Walmart and try a different brand. All in all, my first adventure into using an electric mower is not starting off well, but trying to keep hope alive.