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3175375

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The battery powered small lawn equipment has come a long ways in the past 5-10 years. I have been thinking of at least getting a battery powered leaf blower. I have a nice Stihl Kombi unit with the weed wacker, limb trimmer, paddle broom and regular sweeper as well as the blower. But it is loud and inconvenient to change. For the blower I just want to grab it off the wall and hit the button.
We are probably a few years away from an electric mower that will do 7 acres on a single charge.

How long does it take to mow the 7 acres with your Deere?
 
HWYCRZR said:
The battery powered small lawn equipment has come a long ways in the past 5-10 years. I have been thinking of at least getting a battery powered leaf blower. I have a nice Stihl Kombi unit with the weed wacker, limb trimmer, paddle broom and regular sweeper as well as the blower. But it is loud and inconvenient to change. For the blower I just want to grab it off the wall and hit the button.
We are probably a few years away from an electric mower that will do 7 acres on a single charge.

How long does it take to mow the 7 acres with your Deere?
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About 10-12 hours. It’s zero for me as I have my neighbors middle son doing it. Fortunately, he has a younger brother, so I believe that I am set for having someone mow the yard for the next 7-8 years.
 
I have all electric Ryobi, rider, push, wacker, blower and, trimmer. Always enough battery for the smaller tools and about half a charge on the rider when done. My neighbor is 86 and does all his own yard work, his push mower wouldn't start so I loaned him my rider and push. I think he's spoiled now because of the speed and quietness. What I really like is no gas, oil, filters or tune ups, just push the button and go.
 
DCMC said:
I have all electric Ryobi, rider, push, wacker, blower and, trimmer. Always enough battery for the smaller tools and about half a charge on the rider when done. My neighbor is 86 and does all his own yard work, his push mower wouldn't start so I loaned him my rider and push. I think he's spoiled now because of the speed and quietness. What I really like is no gas, oil, filters or tune ups, just push the button and go.
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When I first used the electric push mower, the quietness had me baffled, as I almost thought it wasn’t running.
 
I have converted to all electric Ryobi, although I returned the blower, it wasn’t worth a damn. I like the way the batteries interchange, all 40v. I had two bite the dust in the spring after some 5 years of service. Went to HD to get new ones but wasn’t willing to pay $180 or buy a new tool to get one. Turns out there are $50 knockoffs on Amazon that work just as well. Now the gas can is reserved for the Chrysler or when one of the kids run out of gas, lol.
 
I bought a cheap Hyper-tough battery powered string trimmer and leaf blower combo on a whim last year. I already had a Hyper-tough drill that took the same battery. Even though they are about as low end as it gets, I’m very pleased with them. And my wife loves them too.
The heck with mixing gas, little 2-stroke carbs that choke on the smallest molecule of dirt, and everything else that goes with along with them.
A friend at work bought a battery powered push mower to use at his summer home and says he will never buy anything else.
The only thing I don’t like about battery powered tools is that eventually the batteries go bad and by the time they do they have been phased out for the next generation. So far, the battery powered stuff is disposable. But, If you use them a lot you get your money’s worth. We use Milwaukee grinders, impacts, drills, ect. at work and they do great.
I still use my old IR impact at home that I’ve had for 30 years and will pass down to my son. But, for yard work I believe the battery stuff is here to stay and is the better option by far.
 
I'm totally done with gas powered anything if it's also available as battery powered.
I'm sick and tired of wrenching my arm out of my shoulder. I'm too old for that ****.
Love my battery powered tools. F#$& those 100' extension cords.
 
When I first got my mowers m yuh neighbors would stop what they were doing and watch me mow because they were so quiet. Now they want to replace theirs with battery.
 
No opinion on new electric mowers, I got a guy that does my lawn, but have to tell the story....

When I was a kid, I mowed the neighbors yard. She was an older widow with no family left. The yard was not a huge one, but it had a bank on the side by the driveway that was tough to do. One thing was you had to use her lawn mower. This was a Sears & Roebuck electric mower.... with a long cord. It was 1950's vintage and was probably expensive to buy. I searched and can't find a picture.

What a PITA that was... I figured it out so you would do one strip down the long backyard, then you could go back before you had to flip the long and heavy cord out of the way. The mower was probably the heaviest lawn mower I've ever seen and had to be scraped out underneath when you were done because otherwise it would clog up. I hated that mower, but geez... It did a really nice job.

She had a series of teenagers mow, and I think about all of them (except me) ran over the cord at one time. Even after I stopped mowing, I became the "go to" to repair the cord for these guys, usually "don't tell her" was the unspoken rule, but she always figured it out.

I think I can still hear her yelling out the window with that thick Russian accent.
 
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