Conventional cable drums are not suitable for use on the mower because the drum at the far end of the cable connector is seated and you'd have to put an additional short cable between lawn mower and drum on the one hand, but above all, they would always carry around or ride with him.
This cable reel (and a few others) are constructed vice versa: The drum stops at the outlet, one rolls off only the cable with the jack. This is essential when mowing the lawn, but actually advantageous in principle for all other purposes - with the exception that a function as a power strip is missing.
Since I have only a week, I can not say much for life, but the materials do not fantastic, but a decent and stable impression. The plastics are sufficiently soft, the cable jacket is very thick, but very flexible. Unlike in the photo is the socket at the cable end red (like cable), not black, and shaped somewhat differently. But this is certainly not a disadvantage, rather the reverse.
The handling is in this drum better than any other, since there is a though only small, but very useful black crank. The other drums have at best a fixed stub on which the winding 20 meters cable but not really gives pleasure. The small rotatable handle creates here but significant relief.
The inner part with the short cable does not move with the drum, so that it can be rolled easily even with inserted plug. When rolling is not quite as easy when you want to use the crank, because yes revolves around the small cable around. But if you wrap the cord around the little black leadership and inserting the plug in the middle, then the winding up is pretty fast and more pleasant than the winding through the arm, which we have hitherto always done without drum.
The fifth star lost the drum at me, because I like the price, not without find on the one hand, on the other hand, the product would quiet a bit to be better, to really inspire me, for example, with a fold-right crank, with a locking mechanism , a better design or the like. At the moment they fully met my expectations and it seems to me, after all, to be the best lawn mower drums available from the few that you can buy at the moment - but no longer.
