Hyundai 1800w Electric Lawn Scarifier/Aerator/Lawn Rake, 230v, 380mm Working Width, 5 Heights, 45l Grass Box & 10m Cable, Scarifier 3 Year Warranty

Comes with scarifier and rake attachment. Well packaged. Easy to assemble and does the job! Made really light work of raking my lawn. Haven't tried the scarifier attachment yet but it's a sturdy beast and the motor didn't flinch when raking.

I've had this for nearly 3 years ago and so I'm in a good position to assess its performance. It's a beast of a machine, powerful, and a good size. The scarifier works well, although, as another reviewer commented, the scarified material isn't directed into the collecting box at quite the right angle and so it doesn't get a chance to fill up properly. So I don't use the collecting box, preferring to rake the lawn afterwards. To be fair, scarifying tend to produce lots of material, and with other scarifiers I've used I didn't bother with a collecting box either as you end up stopping every few seconds to empty it. To use as an aerator, you swap in the aerator bar, which has meaty blades instead of wire teeth. Purpose-built aerators use hollow tines to punch out cores from the soil; these blades slice into the ground and it's a bit like ploughing. They will make quite a mess of the lawn so you probably don't want them too deep, and it's worth testing on a bit of lawn before you commit to doing the whole thing. One issue I had is with long thin twigs from overhanging trees (esp a weeping silver birch) wrapping around the scarifier bar between its end and the bearing holder (the one you undo to swap the bars). If material gets jammed here, friction heats up the bearing holder which unfortunately is plastic, so it starts to melt. Fortunately I noticed the smell and stopped before too much damage was done (see photos). I think this is a design fault, and it should be made of metal. So be aware of this possibility. Overall, it's still a decent machine. UPDATE I contacted the manufacturer about the problem with the plastic bearings, asking how I could prevent this happening. After many emails and a month's wait for a response from their technical department, the only advice they could come up with was "clean it out after use". Wow, I wish I'd thought of that. Of course, the problem is that it happens during use, so this advice isn't actually a solution. Just be aware.

Well designed and built. It made a real difference to our moss filled lawn and was very easy to use. The pick up bag does fill quickly but with a wheelbarrow near it saves time raking.

Easy to assemble, works really well removing a lot of grass thatch, complimented by the aerator which was similarly very efficient. It’s comparatively light and easy to manoeuvre for a large garden machine and a good cutting width.

This is an excellent product. Easy to use and works very well. After 1st use had 5 bags of rubbish. My only complaint is that the lead could not be any shorter that it is, the lead needs to made longer.