🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 Electric lawn mowers?

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[sean]

I've always been a proponent of gas-powered lawn equipment. That said, I do think there is 1 battery powered tool that I could use...a handheld blower. But it would be used for 2 specific tasks, and neither of them are related to yard work.

But yeah, battery powered yard tools, especially lawnmowers, are a big NO for me. I want gas-powered all day, every day.

 

[TerryP]

But it would be used for 2 specific tasks, and neither of them are related to yard work.

 

[rick4bama]

This is what I use to cut our yard. Then years later, when April and I moved onto Ft Benning housing. We were left with the same one to maintain
our yard. Funny thing about our yard on post. Once a month we would have someone drive by to inspect our yard. If it wasn't up to standard, we would get a citation if it wasn't kept mowed and raked. The thing is once the driver was spotted the call was in so you would see all the wives outside pretending to work on the front yard.

 

[TerryP]

A guy and his wife moved in several houses down the street last year. All I know about him is what I've seen. I'm pretty sure it's a Corpsman's pin he's wearing; always in his service uniform. So, junior enlisted likely...he's an E6 is my guess.

He's got a Ryobi and it confuses the hell out of me. 18V isn't strong is weak. But a 13" cut? I looked. $199 at HD. (40V, 20", for another $100.)

One thing I have to say. I can't hear it run.

 

[TerryP]

I've always been a proponent of gas-powered lawn equipment.

I get what you are saying here in this light: maintenance. The motors can be difficult but not to the degree of say a boat motor.

My issue is my issue and you touched on it here. Why do you need a gas powered blower? In my eyes ears it's too damn loud. Blowers and string trimmers hit on one of my nerves. Especially during a game!!!

 

[sean]

I get what you are saying here in this light: maintenance. The motors can be difficult but not to the degree of say a boat motor.

My issue is my issue and you touched on it here. Why do you need a gas powered blower? In my eyes ears it's too damn loud. Blowers and string trimmers hit on one of my nerves. Especially during a game!!!

I wear ear pro whenever I'm running anything with an engine (mower, string trimmer, blower, chainsaw...and any of the power tools in my shop).

Also, the only issue I've ever had with a gas powered yard tool is the shitty, 4-stroke Troy-Bilt string trimmer I had years ago. I thought I was doing better by getting a 4-stroke instead of a 2-stroke. But that thing lasted all of one season before it decided to leak out ALL of the oil on my shop floor. I didn't care about the floor (it's a shop, it's dirty...whatever). But losing all the oil after using it a few times is what pissed me off. I took it to a small engine repair shop and the guy fixed the leak and got it running. But he said it ran rough even though everything checked out. So I took it home, used it a few more times, and it did it, again. Nope! I was done. I threw that shit in the trash and went and bought a 2-stroke Stihl. And that thing has been going strong since 2017. My backpack blower and chainsaw are also Stihl. My mower is a Toro, and it's been going since 2009 or '10 (can't really remember when it was bought). It still cranks on the 1st pull (or 2nd if I just changed the oil, plug, and filter...which I do every year). I keep the filter cleaned out and the blade sharp. And it does its job very well. But I am in the market for a ZT mower.

 

[TerryP]

I wear ear pro whenever I'm running anything with an engine (mower, string trimmer, blower, chainsaw...and any of the power tools in my shop).

We're on the same page here: sort of. I have my "ear things" that work so well they'll block out practically everything: it's a "hear through" mode while biking.

It's the neighbors or their lawn people.

Mowers? Shit. 23 years, on my third and she's only a few years old. There's a thread somewhere on this forum about the Honda. All three; Honda body and motor.

Except for a cultivator and a few odds and ends (IE: small staple gun, electric) I'm Kobalt Gen 4 40V on my lawn stuff. I can turn my string trimmer down to its low setting and it's hard to hear inside my own house. I have no issues using when others are asleep: they can't hear it run.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

I’ve got a 40v Riobi blower and string trimmer. The blower is much quieter than gas and will clear 600 feet of 10ft+ wide driveway, turnaround and 4ft wide walkway to the water with plenty of battery to spare. Trimmer is adaptable to other implements, and I’ve added hedge trimmer and small tiller attachments, runs well.

Both mowers are gas, no plans to change.

 

[TerryP]

I’ve got a 40v Riobi blower and string trimmer.

To the day I die I will swear the best string trimmer I've had was a Ryobi; electric motor. I don't remember how much power it had, technically. I know it would cut through brush (cut through the extension cord twice with no effort.) Lowe's went through a period where you could buy the motor or buy the motor with a new string head: the later was cheaper. I bought two or three of those before Ryobi stopped production.

The blower, hedge trimmer, and cultivator were all free. I found them at a garage sale and the lady didn't have a motor ... she was so pissed off at her ex husband she just told me to take 'em.

I did.

That said, I'm happy with my transition over to Kobalt. The balance, for one example, is a lot better. (Changing the string is a pain in the ass.)