Trump was right again.

[Clem72]

I think all the years I lived in the Ranch Club, I had an electric mower.

With an electric cord.

I bought extra long extensions - 50 feet - which I still have, even though I long ditched the mower. One reason of course, is, my lawn is about five times bigger and actually grows grass and not the mix of dirt, weeds and real grass I had in Lusby.

I got pretty used to hurling that cord this way and that to do my lawn.

EVERY battery powered outdoor tool I've used has proven useless before long. My guess is they just don't design them to last for years and years.

Again, maybe you pick the wrong tools. I used electrics with the cords going back to the 80s at least, I didn't like fiddling with the engines that would stop working while stored during the winter. And I have never had a huge yard to mow. Also got good with whipping the cord over a shoulder and mowing from close to the outlet to far rather than around the yard. I would also occasionally run over the cord and have to patch or replace.

My green works 80v (not the 40v or 36v or other systems) has been as powerful as a plugged in unit electric unit, can't really compare to the small engine driven since I haven't used one in forever.

It works in wet grass, high grass, it works for bush whacking (I lift the front and drive into my bushes and then lower it) and when I occasionally hit a small stump (like a 2" diameter tree cut down) or large root or rock it handles it well.

I can usually do my entire 1/4 acre of lawn with one 2ah battery, but if it's wet and long it may die right at 80% done. No matter, I have 3 other batteries and they charge in like 20 minutes. This has been very consistent since day one, I haven't seen any loss of power or length of service on the batteries.

 

[GURPS]

My guess is they just don't design them to last for years and years.

Can you imagine the cost in California with the deletion of Gas Powered Equipment

 

[Gilligan]

I mow my 2.5 acre yard with a diesel tractor. Reliable as a hammer...no fuel issues...easy on fuel consumption.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I think all the years I lived in the Ranch Club, I had an electric mower.

With an electric cord.

I bought extra long extensions - 50 feet - which I still have, even though I long ditched the mower. One reason of course, is, my lawn is about five times bigger and actually grows grass and not the mix of dirt, weeds and real grass I had in Lusby.

I got pretty used to hurling that cord this way and that to do my lawn.

EVERY battery powered outdoor tool I've used has proven useless before long. My guess is they just don't design them to last for years and years.

I would only need to replace gas mowers when the deck rusted out.

My EGO has a plastic deck and it is going on year 5 and still feels new.

My batteries stay in my garage, which is tolerable in the summer and no colder than 50 degrees in the winter.

 

[SamSpade]

I did have that lectric mower for nine years. It did clog from time to time - and for some reason, if it needed to be reset - it had to be unplugged - turned upside down - and then turned right side up again. I never knew why except, it must have had some mechanism inside that did that.

But now I have two acres - and even on the riding mower, it can take more than 90 minutes. I can't imagine how long it would take with a push mower.

Years ago - my kid rode around in one of those Power Wheels jeeps. He'd run out of power pretty quick, so I'd have two backups in the garage. Then when his sister came along - she got one also. And then his next sister. Before long, my workbench was covered with Power Wheel batteries, some of which just simply wouldn't charge at all after a while.

I was so relieved when they all outgrew those things.

I just haven't had a lot of luck with BATTERY operated devices - for outside. Weed whackers - leaf blowers - trimmers. IF they had a cord - they were - ok. Nowhere near the power of a gas powered one. A gas powered leaf blower will blow all your leaves, wet or not.

 

[glhs837]

I did have that lectric mower for nine years. It did clog from time to time - and for some reason, if it needed to be reset - it had to be unplugged - turned upside down - and then turned right side up again. I never knew why except, it must have had some mechanism inside that did that.

But now I have two acres - and even on the riding mower, it can take more than 90 minutes. I can't imagine how long it would take with a push mower.

Years ago - my kid rode around in one of those Power Wheels jeeps. He'd run out of power pretty quick, so I'd have two backups in the garage. Then when his sister came along - she got one also. And then his next sister. Before long, my workbench was covered with Power Wheel batteries, some of which just simply wouldn't charge at all after a while.

I was so relieved when they all outgrew those things.

I just haven't had a lot of luck with BATTERY operated devices - for outside. Weed whackers - leaf blowers - trimmers. IF they had a cord - they were - ok. Nowhere near the power of a gas powered one. A gas powered leaf blower will blow all your leaves, wet or not.

My 80 backpack blower does a pretty good job wet or dry. Not quite as good as the gas backpack I had, but far less effort and noise.

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I did have that lectric mower for nine years. It did clog from time to time - and for some reason, if it needed to be reset - it had to be unplugged - turned upside down - and then turned right side up again. I never knew why except, it must have had some mechanism inside that did that.

But now I have two acres - and even on the riding mower, it can take more than 90 minutes. I can't imagine how long it would take with a push mower.

Years ago - my kid rode around in one of those Power Wheels jeeps. He'd run out of power pretty quick, so I'd have two backups in the garage. Then when his sister came along - she got one also. And then his next sister. Before long, my workbench was covered with Power Wheel batteries, some of which just simply wouldn't charge at all after a while.

I was so relieved when they all outgrew those things.

I just haven't had a lot of luck with BATTERY operated devices - for outside. Weed whackers - leaf blowers - trimmers. IF they had a cord - they were - ok. Nowhere near the power of a gas powered one. A gas powered leaf blower will blow all your leaves, wet or not.

A lot of people have the same issue, it stems from people not understanding how to treat that particular chemistry battery.

 

[BOP]

Again, maybe you pick the wrong tools. I used electrics with the cords going back to the 80s at least, I didn't like fiddling with the engines that would stop working while stored during the winter. And I have never had a huge yard to mow. Also got good with whipping the cord over a shoulder and mowing from close to the outlet to far rather than around the yard. I would also occasionally run over the cord and have to patch or replace.

My green works 80v (not the 40v or 36v or other systems) has been as powerful as a plugged in unit electric unit, can't really compare to the small engine driven since I haven't used one in forever.

It works in wet grass, high grass, it works for bush whacking (I lift the front and drive into my bushes and then lower it) and when I occasionally hit a small stump (like a 2" diameter tree cut down) or large root or rock it handles it well.

I can usually do my entire 1/4 acre of lawn with one 2ah battery, but if it's wet and long it may die right at 80% done. No matter, I have 3 other batteries and they charge in like 20 minutes. This has been very consistent since day one, I haven't seen any loss of power or length of service on the batteries.

What about the wife's flowers?

 

[BOP]

Can you imagine the cost in California with the deletion of Gas Powered Equipment

Hispanics are no longer the minority in California. They make up the vast majority of lawn care businesses, at least in the southern end of the state. Basically, the left is saying to them "screw you, we don't need you. We have illegals to replace your asses."

 

[Gilligan]

I just haven't had a lot of luck with BATTERY operated devices - for outside. Weed whackers - leaf blowers - trimmers. IF they had a cord - they were - ok. Nowhere near the power of a gas powered one. A gas powered leaf blower will blow all your leaves, wet or not.

We have a Dewalt battery powered string trimmer and its a beast....battery is huge though.

 

[SamSpade]

We have a Dewalt battery powered string trimmer and its a beast....battery is huge though.

In college I was on a landscaping crew during summers - we had these string trimmers - weed whackers - that you needed assistance mounting on your back and had a pull cord to start. They could easily mow a small yard, but we were tasked with mowing whole developments in a morning.

We have destroyed several at my house, but not the least of which is, my wife INSISTS that to do a proper job, the base of the weed whacker must be nose to nose with the area it's whacking. This wears out the spool in almost no time. I've even put on those after market blade spinners which she has worn down to the nub in a day or two.

I've since solved my weed problem with heavy doses of Round Up. The areas where the weeds once were look like the potty area of a doggie day care.

 

[GURPS]

Hispanics are no longer the minority in California. They make up the vast majority of lawn care businesses, at least in the southern end of the state. Basically, the left is saying to them "screw you, we don't need you. We have illegals to replace your asses."

Legions of Hispanics wielding these

 

[Gilligan]

In college I was on a landscaping crew during summers - we had these string trimmers - weed whackers - that you needed assistance mounting on your back and had a pull cord to start. They could easily mow a small yard, but we were tasked with mowing whole developments in a morning.

My first life/career after growing up on a farm was landscaping/landscape construction. I had worked my way up to assistant production manager for a larger Balt-Wash metro contractor (W. H. Boyer, Inc, Glenwood, MD) when I took an unplanned and poorly executed dive off the roof of a 3-story building. Barely survived and a career redirection was necessary after I did. But to the point..we ran a commercial grounds maintenance crew as part of the business and they had a couple of those powerful "backpack" weed eaters. We also used those to harvest Christmas trees every fall (had a couple hundred acres of tree farm up in Bedford, PA and used to wholesale around 15,000 trees every year), with carbide saw blades mounted in place of the trimmer heads. Man eaters.

 

[BOP]

Legions of Hispanics wielding these



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I actually used one of those reel mowers when I was growing up. The handle hit me in the chest.

Never used a scythe, but I have used manually-operated weed whips.

 

[BOP]

I actually used one of those reel mowers when I was growing up. The handle hit me in the chest.

Never used a scythe, but I have used manually-operated weed whips.

Actually still have one of the weed whips. I have a weed whacker, so I haven't used it in a while, and I forget which one it is.

 

[Ken King]

I actually used one of those reel mowers when I was growing up. The handle hit me in the chest.

Never used a scythe, but I have used manually-operated weed whips.

Used to call those "idiot sticks".

 

[BOP]

Used to call those "idiot sticks".

It only takes one whack on the old shin (or foot) to cure that kind of idiocy. Like vaulting over a fence with an electric strand. It only takes once of having you pecker knocked off.

 

[Ken King]

It only takes one whack on the old shin (or foot) to cure that kind of idiocy. Like vaulting over a fence with an electric strand. It only takes once of having you pecker knocked off.

The idiocy was in being stuck using them (though they were preferred over those grass trimming shears to do the close up work). As to the electric strand, I wouldn't be vaulting them naked. Just be careful when pissing on a weed covered pole, it might be shocking.

 

[BOP]

The idiocy was in being stuck using them (though they were preferred over those grass trimming shears to do the close up work). As to the electric strand, I wouldn't be vaulting them naked. Just be careful when pissing on a weed covered pole, it might be shocking.

In fairness, we were moving the cattle to a field that hadn't been used, so the wire hadn't been turned on.

 

[Hijinx]

They work really well to keep a dog from peeing on your shrubbery.