Customer Reviews

Black & Decker 4 HP Electric Mulching Lawn Mower MM600

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After two and a half mowing seasons, I find myself reasonably satisfied with my MM600, with one glaring exception. First, the good:

The mower is lightweight, adequately powered for my needs, and admirably easy to adjust for mowing height. I'm especially impressed with the plastic body; I had thought it might be a potential problem area, but it has given no trouble whatever in use and it cannot rust. However, all is not sunshine and roses with this machine, because of its safety on/off switch.

The switch (buried in a housing located on the mower's handle) is activated by a lever that one must pull up and hold against the mower handle while operating the machine. If you let go of the lever, the switch shuts off the mower. So far, so good- I'm all for safety. Unfortunately, the switch seems to be short-lived and prone to failure; I'm on my third one already. Worse, the most recent failure caused the switch to catch fire- flames shot out of the switch housing only inches from my hand. Rather obviously, I'm not happy about that, and I'm not happy that an otherwise exemplary mower has cost around $30 in multiple repairs to the same component.

For the moment, I'm keeping a spare switch on hand (and an eye out for more smoke or flames), but when this mower needs replacing, I'll be looking for something with a much more robust safety switch design. It's too bad; this mower is otherwise one of the best I've ever owned or used.

Sightly underpowered, and the flip hand gets stuck when the clippings build up in the pivots, but this is the easiest mower I've ever handled. Now if I could find replacement parts.....