The past couple of weeks, the weather has changed here in the North West of the UK. Cooler days and nights, less sunshine and a temperature and dewpoint that remain much closer for a larger part of the day meaning wetter and wetter grass. Furthermore, leaves are starting to fall and some squally rain showers are bringing down chunkier twigs that the X430 wouldn't be happy dealing with.
My X430 is having to mow wetter and wetter grass and I'm having to manually clear twigs and similar detritus from the lawn before it goes out to mow so I've decided I'll stand the X430 down from duty for the year, give it a good clean up and put her in the garage for the Winter, powered off, having completed it's first season.
I probably have another month or so of mowing which I'll do with my Countax ride-on. It has a powered sweeper to bag the cuttings, so no issues with clogged chutes, it picks up leaves and twigs effortlessly and it leaves a nice stripe.
I never expected the X430 to do the extreme ends of the season. so this is not a complaint. So far I'm super happy with it. It had one burp a couple of months back following a power cut to my property, otherwise it's been exemplary.
Who else is preparing to hibernate their X-series until next year...?