I chose this mower after some research, taking into account run time, power, weight & recharge time, and I made a good choice.
It was easy to assemble, and the two batteries take about 2 hours to fully charge.
Being easy to carry, I took it round to the front garden for a test drive, and it gave good results straight away. The lawn is about 20′ x 30′. With plenty of oomph in the battery, so I took it round to the back garden, and set it on the turbo setting, as the grass was quite long. This lawn is about 60′ x 32′. It chomped through the grass with ease, leaving nice stripes behind it, thanks to the integral roller.
Having finished mowing the lawn, there was just enough juice left in the batteries to enable me to use the Worx strimmer around the edges and trees.
Pleasantly surprised to be able to mow both lawns and strim on one charge. The mower is powerful, especially in Turbo mode, (but this will obviously reduce the run time), fairly quiet and easy to use. Highly recommended.

I’ve only used it twice so far but this mower makes light work of cuttig the grass. The battery has enough capacity to cut my lawn without running out of charge in Eco mode, but in Turbo mode it has just about enough charge to finish the job. Build quality feels fine.

Bought this after moving to house with a much larger garden, approx. 280 sq metres of grass, and very pleased that I did. Fairly easy to put together, the grass box was probably the hardest thing stretching the fittings into place.
Even with very lush grass, no need for the Turbo setting, and grass was easily cut on one charge. Also not once did it scalp the lawn even when working on the 2nd lowest setting, still to try the lowest but don’t see that causing any issues either.

It’s not light weight but it certainly does the job pretty well.

Easy to put together and easy to start. Battery is very good and can finish two, thirds of my garden.

TL;dr – a decent new gen battery mower for the price. If you’ve got reasonably sized, light duty lawns then this should do the trick in a more eco friendly, cleaner, modern way. Also swap the batteries with other Worx product. Make sure you register (easy online) for 3 year warranty.

Edit: second cut, much tougher with longer grass and slightly damp. Batteries lasted 4 bars nearly across same 4 lawns. Biggest headache was the fact that the power wasn’t enough to compact the cuttings in the grass bin so constantly taking it off and packing it. Still happy with mower… Just.

Bit of context. After 20 years of loving the smell of 2 stroke in the morning, I decided to give the new gen of battery powered tools a go. I had a small garden maintenance business for some years, so petrol powered tools were the only realistic option for years. But now I’ve just got around 4 smallish lawns to cover, and they’re mostly moss and clover, so the 6HP B&S self-driven 22″ aluminium deck LawnKing I’ve relied on for over a decade was probably a bit heavy duty. Plus, to be honest, I like the idea of at least trying to go a bit more eco friendly.

Doing the research, it was clear the likes of Stihl, whilst obviously having a very good name, were beyond the budget for the requirements. On the other hand, something like a Ryobi seemed a bit too low priced to be good (don’t know, never had one). Worx stood out as a lower-mid price , and I’ve used a Worx battery drill for a few years with no issues at all, and as all their batteries are interchangeable, I decided to give it a go.

This model (WG743E.1) comes with a 39cm deck, 45lt bin and, more importantly by far, 2 x 4a 20v batteries. I’ll come to that in a bit.

Getting it out of the box, it was immediately clear that we are not talking heavy clunking ironwork here. Every major component apart from blade, handles, axles and bolts is plastic – deck, wheels and all. Obviously this is not exactly a surprise. Plastic = not just cheaper but lightweight, which probably wouldn’t particularly save battery life in a self propelled mower, but does make it incredibly easy to swing about and carry over low walls for instance. And whilst the deck is plastic, it’s not flimsy in any way, so I’m expecting a few years out of it (probably wouldn’t want to hit too many stones though)

However, I can see an issue quickly developing with the wing nuts / bolts that hold the handle. Overtightening them will quickly cause a stripped thread, and it’s worth adding a couple of washers to the assembly if you’ve got some kicking around. Probably worth a bit of caution with the drive bar too as it looks and feels a bit flimsy.

Assembly is quick and easy. Just put the grass bin together, secure the handles to the mower frame, charge the batteries fully and you’re good to go.

As you can see from the photos, my lawns are not exactly Wimbledon standard. Bit up and down, mostly weeds, tight spots. The mower coped easily. In fact, probably better than I did, as I missed the throb of the B&S engine and the rattle of the LawnKing so much that I often didn’t realise it was actually running. If you normally use a cord powered mower you might not notice any difference other than not having to constantly lasso the lead out of the way, a big bonus.

Other than getting used to a self propelled mower after all these years, and probably twice as many bin empties, I would go so far as to say it was an absolute breeze to spin through 4 bumpy lawns.

The setting used was 2 as I didn’t want it to dig in too much (seems like it would), but will try 1 next time for a closer cut. Battery use after around 20 minutes was 1 bar. That’s where those 4ah batteries come in; in addition to the mower, I’ve also got hold of a Worx strimmer, which came with dual 2ah batteries. On a full charge, I got down to 2 bars on these after no more than 10 minutes use with the strimmer. But that’s another story. Safe to say, getting the 4ah packs for the mower is pretty much a no brainer.

All in all, after one cut I’m still happy with the purchase. It feels ridiculously flimsy to me, but is arguably a more modern solution, so I’ll give it the rest of the season to really put it through its paces, but so far so good. Although, the first cut next spring might still go to the LawnKing…

I have a reasonable sized lawn. With battery fully charged at the start all four battery state lights are lit. I was rather surprised to find that when I’d finished there were still three lights remaining. My expectation was that they would be almost flat. Plenty of power so very pleased so far.