Sweden
Two petrol machines, fully specified
STIGA appears twice here, on the petrol mower shelf and the scarifier shelf, and both entries are engines.
The mower is a self-propelled machine with a steel cutting deck, a stated displacement and a stated catcher volume, which places it at the upper end of its shelf in both specification and price. Deck material is not a figure any listing publishes as a specification, and on this shelf it is one of the largest differences between the top and the bottom: a stiff deck holds the airflow that lifts grass before the blade arrives.
The scarifier is the same proposition on a different shelf — a petrol machine with a stated working width and a collector, among electric competitors.
Both listings state a guaranteed sound power level, which is the one noise figure that means the same thing across the shelf, and both state it high. A petrol machine is the loudest thing in a domestic garden and the oval on the housing does not hide it.
40 cm, 182 cm³ four-stroke, 32 swinging blades, −15 to 0 mm, 40 L
Thirty-two free-swinging blades on a 182 cm³ four-stroke, with a depth range that stops at ground level and an easy-start engine.
Best for: A large, stony or rough lawn where a fixed blade would find something hard
51 cm steel deck, 166 cm³, self-propelled 3.7 km/h, 60 L
A 51 cm steel deck on a 166 cm³ engine, self-propelled at a stated 3.7 km/h, with a 60-litre hybrid box — and a price in five markets.
Best for: A medium to large lawn, and the one machine here whose price can be checked against another country
