Back to the Rassaro. Battery-powered mowers are great for small- to mid-sized lawns, and if your lawn has steep slopes, they’re lightweight and easy to operate on them. Battery-powered mowers are also light and simple enough to pack up, throw in your trunk and take across town to mow someone else’s grass, if the need arises.

Einhell’s Rassaro 36V 17″ Cordless Push Lawn Mower Kit – Brushless is now avail­able across Canada. The company is new to Canada and has a wide range of both woodworking and home improvement power tools, not to mention an extensive line of outdoor yard tools. A single battery platform they call Power X-Change will power each of their cordless tools.

A quick and easy setup was complete in about two minutes. This Einhell mower offers a few clipping collection options. A 45-litre collection bag is included, and it works well, though I usually don’t use a col­lection bag when I mow and let the grass clippings compost on the lawn. If you use this collection bag, you’ll be pleased to know there’s a filling indicator to let you know when the bag needs to be emptied. There’s also a mulching plug included, which is easy to install. It ensures the grass clippings get broken down even more before remaining on the lawn. I generally leave both the collection bag and mulching plug off the mower and allow the longer clip­pings to fall where they may. They get evenly ejected onto the path of the mower without making too much of a mess of my pants and shoes.

The height-adjustable handle is relatively easy to collapse and expand for storage or moving. For the purposes of this review, I packed the mower up, put it in my vehicle, set it back up and mowed a few other lawns about six times. It’s an easy process, and the carry handle ensures the mower is balanced and easy to handle. The Rassaro will easily fit in all but an extremely small trunk.

The double-battery system on this mower powers the blade nicely, even on medium-length grass. If grass is very long, or is wet, the motor will bog down a bit, but that’s to be expected from a battery-powered mower. It’s always best to cut your grass regularly, so it doesn’t get too long, and only when it’s relatively dry. I wish the clear hous­ing protecting the batteries stayed in an open position on its own while I installed the batteries, but I got used to this tiny shortcoming quickly. The brushless motor ensures efficient power transfer.

In use, the large rear wheels make mov­ing the mower around easy, and the six height-adjustment settings allowed me to easily and quickly dial in the cutting height of the grass to between 25mm and 75mm. On top of this, near-edge cutting reduced the time I needed to spend with my string trimmer.

This quiet, light-weight and easy-to-oper­ate mower has the power and run-time to mow small- and medium-sized lawns with ease. And the charger will have your bat­teries back to full strength quickly if you’re mowing a large lawn. Although I still prefer using my block plane, this mower will have me back in the shop quicker than ever this summer.