Posted on 05/08/2022 3:45:49 AM PDT by dennisw
The ultimate for me would be a robot mower with a liquid tank that could spray fertilizer of weed killer or insectacide.
I have a small yard and bought an ego mower.
21 inch iirc.
Works great.
Will probably sell it since I have farmed out lawns to a company. Since my January medical misadventure, the road to recovery has been a bit slow. I really don’t have it in me to do a lot of things. Getting there.
I’d like a lawm mover that works like those robot vacuums. Just let it loose, have it now a section, come back and recharge, go out again, while I FReep from the porch.
I paid $5500 for my 60” zt. My lawn is roughly 9 acres in three sections. Takes about 3 hours once a week. I’m also retired but enjoy this activity. I’d love electric but it’s disadvantages are obvious.
It doesn’t work for me for the same reason it doesn’t work for a car used for road trips. Oh, and the cost of the mower.
$7,000.00 for a lawn mower, $100,000 for a Tesla, $20,000 a year for your electric bill, $6 left over for your annual food bill...did I mention that you are depleting your 401K funds?
The common battery is what I mentioned in #5. I have 5 battery packs and it is rare to need all for all tools at the same time. So after cutting the grass may need to expend 2 for the leaf blower, expend 2 for the weed wacker, and 1 for the hedge clipper, ...
A little extra?! That’s the most expensive part! 🤣
$550, electric AND it’s a Stihl...not bad.
I paid $650 for a Toro commercial gas mower probably 14-15 years ago that’s still knocking the top off my grass. It’s a friggin’ indestructible tank.
But, I like Stihl. If I were in the market for a new mower, I’d consider this one.
“while I FReep from the porch.”
And in the future AI can do freeping while you take a snooze.
I got an EGO and my evaluation is that “ego” motivated my purchase. Not enough RPM, chokes on moderate grass growth, battery self-discharges. I bought the whole banana— mower, string trimmer, and blower. Only the blower works to my satisfaction.
Oh, please...
Sheesh, my uncle was mowing his lawn with an electric way back in the mid sixties and it looked like it had been around a while even then.
I am happy that Stihl is made in the USA, but some profits flow back to Germany, which is the parent.
But was that a 110 volt corded mower?
I had a mower (sold by Sears) with a B&S motor. It was underpowered junk. The problem was the rated horsepower was significantly higher than the actual horsepower. This was the subject of a class-action lawsuit from which I collected a small amount of cash. It couldn’t deal with long grass.
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2010/04/lawnmower_settlement.html
Me too, but did not triple spend to buy those tools, and for those kind of jobs, battery power is fine.
I also have both a battery as well as gas powered chain saw, because while the battery saw works for small jobs, it cannot stand up to hours of intense work, and adding gas is a very simple way to keep on cutting.
My neighbor has an electric mower and it takes him three battery changes to finish his lawn, but since it's his lawn and he's doing the work, I'm OK with whatever decision he makes.
What I like is that you can buy the tool without the battery and save money. Just did that for a sawsaw. Already had compatible battery packs. Use it as a light duty chainsaw outside.
7k for a lawn mower??? Yeah that’s ridiculous.
Noise I will give you.
The rest is nonsense.
Do you think you will not need to oil anything on your electric mower? Or that it will never need servicing? And just how complex can it be? It is a mower, not the USS Enterprise. And hot surfaces? What are you doing? Cuddling it?
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