Full Overview

Mow Joe 14-Inch Electric Lawn Mower. Responding to the need for an easy-to-use machine that takes care of the smaller yards, Sun Joe developed the Mow Joe MJ401E, a smaller electric lawn mower. Its durable steel blade cuts 14" wide with precision on each pass. In addition to its hard-working mowing capacity, the Mow Joe features a three position manual height adjustment. The Mow Joe is equipped with a hard top rear bag, which detaches easily for convenient disposal. No gas, oil, or tune-ups are necessary. The unit is ETL-approved and carries a full two year warranty. Dimensions: 35.5" L x 16" W x 38.5" H Weight: 28 lbs.

Technical Details

- The Sun Joe Mow Joe uses a powerful, 12 amp, electric motor to quickly and efficiently mow your lawn
- Easy push button start; no messy oils or gasoline
- Three-position height adjustment up to 2-2/5 inches
- Compact design is easy to maneuver and takes up less storage space
- Hard-top grass catcher detaches easily for convenient disposal

This is one of the best little mowers that I have tried. It has 3 settings for height.
It sounds like a fan when operated.
The only down side is that the height settings sometimes slip or change on their own; but, for the price it is the best.

My background:
1st time using mower, lawn has never been mowed before.

Experience:
Assembly is straight forward, simple and succint. After assembly, took it out for a test drive. I ended up mowing my whole lawn and had the urge to mow some of my neighbors lawn with it just because it was so fun. It has 3 settings high mid and low. High setting was already fairly low. The blade was clean cut and managed to get a relatively smooth cutting over the whole lawn. Using electric was also a plus. No gas smell and is a lot less noisy than my neighbors behemoth. The grass catcher is easy to detach and reattach. The handle bar has a safety button which gets kind of annoying because once you stop, you have to repress the button and start again.

Overall is very excellent. It is a little mower with great potential. Though don't try to run this through huge amounts of grass like a light saber. It won't work. Just take it slow and it'll do its job.

Highly recommend for first time buyer. Maybe second time buyers if you are looking for something small.

This lawnmower is perfect for someone with a small yard. It's not to noisy, and it operates with ease. It is also very light in weight.

This is quite possibly the worst mower I've ever used (including reel push mowers)

Wanted to try out a small electric mower as my yard is quite small (10x30 sqft). Within about 15 feet's worth of mowing, two wheels fell off. There's no way to reattach them w/o the wheels just flimsily falling off.

All the parts, besides the blade, are basically cheap plastic. You could construct a sturdier mower out of Legos.

The mower also has very little power. Going over a patch of grass that's no more than 4-5 inches tall, the blade would stall/get stuck, which required me lifting up the front end (by pressing down on the handle bars) to get it going again (sort of like how you can stop a crappy, underpowered fan with your hand).

All in all, it took me nearly an hour trying to mow a tiny strip of lawn before giving up. You'd make quicker progress trying to cut your lawn with safety scissors. As for the wheels falling off, reviews on other site indicate that this is not an isolated problem.

If you have a small yard and smaller shed, this is a great concept. It even does a great job with edges along walls and fences that are very hard to reach with larger mowers.

However, the motor died on the second use. It does not sound like this is an isolated experience, as I have found three other failures reported here and on other websites. Email customer service consisted of asking if I was using an outdoor extension cord and then never responding to my affirmative answer. Fortunately, I was within 30 days.

We are quite happy with our Razarsharp, very similar mower (but made in Brazil). It has a foldable handle, which makes for more compact storage. Note spelling and check their website. They are very responsive to inquiries.

Bought this mower for my 80 year old mother last Christmas. Considering it cost her over $400.00 last summer for a local kid to cut her grass,this mower will pay for it's self in a month.The mower is light enough for her to push around,cheap labor is hard to find. Lol Actually I used it for the first time on April 5. This is a nice little mower. I have the wheels set to cut,on the middle setting. Although you do have to lift the mower to adjust each individual wheel,it's not all that difficult. It's quieter then a gas power mower,but it will wake up your neighbors if you use it to early. I don't think it sounds like a fan,as another reviewer stated. This mower is great for a small yard like in a mobile home park. Got to go....Hey mom you missed a spot!!

I was very excited to buy this lawn mower because of its small profile and the limited space in my garage. I have a small yard and it looked perfect to handle the job. Unfortunately, this lawn mower DOES NOT WORK. I literally had to lift the mower off the ground to get the motor to start turning the blade, even on the highest height setting. I thought maybe it was because my grass was a bit high. After I painstakingly cut through the yard on the highest setting, I adjusted it to the middle setting to get a deeper cut. The darn thing tripped my circuit breaker when I tried to start it up. The grass was not that thick! I gave up after about half an hour of the second pass. I'm going to have to find a larger lawn mower, but I could cut my yard faster with a weed wacker than this piece of junk.

My yard is small so a manual reel mower seemed fine for a number of years. But I wanted a more polished look for my lawn and I wanted to collect the clippings. The Mow Joe seemed like the perfect and very inexpensive answer. So far, I love it. It's easy to use, stores neatly in the garage and gives the look to the lawn I want. Only negative - the clipping collecter is a little tough to get positioned just right and falls off sometimes. It's only a minor inconvenience.

I bought this mower a little less then a month ago. It was hard to get started and then the 3rd time I used it, the motor died. I pushed the reset button and it would not restart.
I only have a small townhouse size lawn in back and front and this little guy could not make it.
Just FYI if they get more in stock.
I am returning this mower.

I love it, it is light and easy to use even for an old person. The little bag is a pain, but acceptable.