Posted on 10/15/2021 7:41:50 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
Get a 100-foot cord.
Plan the mowing so the cord follows.
Been there. Done that.
No gas to mix. No failure to start.
Did run over the cord once.
If you spent hours in a closed garage with a running vehicle you would simply be dead, regardless of whatever pollution prevention technology the vehicle has.
Yes, you simply plug it into itself. Why didn’t I think of that?
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Joe Biden already has. And tested the procedure, too.
A bridge too far.
People will just buy what they need in Nevada and ignore the law.
And millions of them will do so.
Good for California! And I hope it hurts and I hope it hurts a lot! The idiots out there put the Dems in office so let them reap the whirlwind! Could not happen to a more deserving state!
California requires all lawn mowers to be USB powered so you can run your mower and play with your laptop at the same time.
My 12 year old self did not give a crap about that and had no money for 100’ extension cords. I killed that useless piece of crap and moved on.
That would be interesting, maybe they just plug them into themselves for recharging? :-)
“The pollution from modern cars is about nil.”
Might depend on their definition of pollution. Today’s big polluter is carbon dioxide. The amount of carbon dioxide per gallon of fuel isn’t radically different for any fossil-fueled engine (I imagine).
Catalytic converters convert certain polluting exhaust components into carbon dioxide. Certainly baby-size catalytic convertors could be put onto small engines.
Actually, the two-cycle engines used in chainsaws, leaf blowers, etc., are certainly dirtier than 4-cycle engines used in the larger equipment.
Our most populous state has become the classic textbook case of extreme liberal mismanagement by design.
They better learn to smuggle in mufflers as well.
All of this is reason 9437 NOT to ever cross of the border into California.
And they are much worse now
Not sure if it's a government regulation somewhere or fear of lawsuits, but one annoying thing about any corded equipment made in the last 10-20 years is the cords are now designed to easily pop out of the socket on the equipment.
So the slightest jerk (and I mean the slightest) or quick change in direction and the cord will pop out and the blower/mower/power rake/etc will stop running and you will lose your momentum and have to stop and push it back in.
Trying to mow and/or blow when you have to stop every 20-30 seconds just as you were start to get a good pace just to re-attached the cord really, really, really will drive you ^!@&^ mad.
Who made this rule or who designed them this way deserves to be shot.
Firemen battling forest fires required to use electric chainsaws.
Oh shoot Larry get out the jumper cables the battery went dead.
This will put many thousands out of work in CA.
I own a line of the newer more powerful battery powered lawn equipment. Not bad.
“I think it is about right. The pollution from modern cars is about nil.”
This is not true. Burning a gallon of gas in a car or weed eater will produce the same amount of CO2.
In Michigan they are called “Ozone Action Days.” My husband loves them because he doesn’t have to mow the lawn those days.
Cali had spies at fireworks stands who would call in the license plate number of any Cali vehicle that had stopped to purchase fireworks. They'll do the same with those who buy gas engine products. Just like they do the same right now for anyone stopping at a gun store for ammo.
I have an 18” Ego chain saw that I prefer over my 18” gas.
That’s yard work, no way a replacement for loggers.
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