I burnt up 2 old Craftsmen electrics back in the 80's

they were corded,

new house, old mower, (they were a bit heavy but worked well)
first one lasted a season, hit a rock and it no longer worked,

second one (both were given to me) lasted half a season,

biggest issue with the corded was the damn cord, and I had a small grassy area to cut

OK not for everyone and a PITA, what about corded mowers? I looked into those a year back, not a lot to choose from and seemingly very chintzy.

That said, none of the baggage that comes with batteries, constant available power and one would think lighter (not much the best I can tell). But yeah, I'd consider the awkwardness of a corded mower, if decent ones were available.

**edit** Posted just after lyman above. And yeah, cords are a problem but surely there can be tolerable ways to deal with them.

My dad had a corded lawnmower when I was growing up and as a teen it was one of my duties to mow, I recall it being a giant hassle dragging a cord around and always having to be vigilant to not run it over and cut it.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
I wish my neighbors would get electric mowers. So much quieter.

I bought your neighbor's house.

Closing next week...

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
The man at HD is about as informed at the guy at the gun store suggesting the Taurus Judge as a HD pistol.

I have to agree.

I'm all too happy to purchase elsewhere if HD wants to keep playing the woke game in their feeding of the snowflake trolls.

STIHL Made in America

Electric works fine if you have a small yard, grass isn't thick and you don't have to mow more than once a week. I had a Ryobi electric mower when I lived in Orlando. During the summer season, the grass was so thick and it rained so much I'd be mowing twice a week. I had two batteries for it and it would barely finish the lawn. If my yard was bigger, even two batteries wouldn't have finished the yard.

I was gone for 2 weeks for training one time over the summer. Or course, my wife couldn't bother to mow while I was gone. When I got home, I rented a gas powered mower from HD to take care of two weeks worth. No way the battery power would've handled it.

The one benefit of electric is that you can stow it standing up if you are low on garage space, that was our case. I do not keep cars parked outside so it was crammed in there with 2 cars.

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Originally posted by Ryanp225:
The man at HD is about as informed at the guy at the gun store suggesting the Taurus Judge as a HD pistol.

Oh, c'mon, you use that 410 in there and you don't even have to aim.

Udo, please check your email

I used EGO products all last summer, including a mower. I'm sorry if you've had issues with your EGO gear, but I don't think that's normal. We get our entire city suburb lot done with a single battery. My son usually uses the 7.5ah battery, but I've used a 5ah battery and finished no problem.

I used an EGO single stage snowblower all winter as well. It has slots for 2 batteries and I wasn't even down to half on a 6-8" snowfall.

YMMV, but it seems fine to me.


Trying to scare people into buying ICE mowers is stupid as hell though. No way ICE is going anywhere.

Finally, it sucks if EGO stuff is made in China, but that's a discussion for another thread. A much larger and probably more heated thread.

I'm long Albeamarle. Lithium mines. All these electric batteries need it.

Reminds me of the line in "The Graduate". "Plastics man plastics".

They’re pretty close to getting Sodium Ion right. If it’s a drop in replacement for Lithium Ion, civilization will be in great shape.

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Originally posted by Edmond:
Electric works fine if you have a small yard, grass isn't thick....

This is my take as well, unless I had a *small* yard I'd stay with gas for now. Internal combustion engine technology is proven, efficient, and they are in the mature stage of design. Li battery is the new and upcoming power source, but will likely be outdated by more efficient and more environmentally friendly technology within 10 years, so staying with gasoline now makes more sense to me.

Everything old is new again. Grew up using one of these. Ours had a bag attachment.

Admittedly, I haven't used an electric recently. My take is a good deal of the problem is they just don't appear to be made well enough for the job. Motors seem sized to provide run time over performance. And most use too much plastic for my taste. They could certainly make make them with a powerful enough motor, but it would require significant increase in battery capacity. Those changes add weight and significant cost as well. Upshot is they just aren't there yet, and trying to sell marginal products in the meantime may sour opinions on the idea.

Really, how much pollution do all of the gas mowers in the US contribute? A baby fart in the Grand Canyon I'm thinking. One container ship, idling off short waiting days to dock and unload probably contributes 3x that amount in one day.

Of course I have no data to support any of that, but neither do the activists I suspect.

I've got a Milwaukee string trimmer with the 9.0AH battery. It's worked really well for my .25 acre urban yard for 3-4 years now. I can do the whole thing 3-4 times before I need to think about charging.

I'll be moving out of town soon, to a half acre yard with more fence I'll need to trim. I cut it for the first time this week. It was a little more grown up than I usually let my yard get, but it took pretty much the whole battery to get through it. The trimmer has noticeably less power as the battery drains as well, so if I find myself becoming frustrated I may very well go back to gas. I'll continue evaluating, but if that yard is killing batteries it's not ready for primetime for many people yet.

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EGO can take their bullshit claims and shove them up their asses. My aunt bought one for her grandson to push mow with because it was lighter (easier to push). Link to the POS Originally claimed 3 hour runtime. Ran for 10 minutes T

You should call Ego for her, those batteries have a 3 year warranty and the mower itself 5 years, if she bought a brand new mower that shouldn't happen.

My neighbor has that mower, the 7.5 battery is more than adequate to do his yard have have plenty of battery left over.



https://egopowerplus.com/warranty-policy

Imagine trying to run a lawn care company in California.

Those mowers are running 20-30 hours per week. How in the HELL do you account for battery power?

A good commercial gas powered mower is $7500. If there was a battery powered commercial mower, it would be $20,000. Plus the cost of extra batteries.

Its going to be fun to watch the exorbitant price increase for lawn care in California once they stop selling gas powered equipment.

"Sorry, we are no longer able to service your lawn at $125 per month. Due to new expensive regulations, your new cost for lawn service with new electric mowers, is now $400 per month."

It's probably already $400 a month in California, with $7 a gallon gas, cost of running the equipment plus the cost of moving from lawn to lawn, higher labor costs etc.

With the lack of water and restrictions on that, imagine lots of folks in CA are moving to lawns that require no mowing or water ie desert lawns...

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Originally posted by bubbatime:
Imagine trying to run a lawn care company in California.

Those mowers are running 20-30 hours per week. How in the HELL do you account for battery power?

A good commercial gas powered mower is $7500. If there was a battery powered commercial mower, it would be $20,000. Plus the cost of extra batteries.

Its going to be fun to watch the exorbitant price increase for lawn care in California once they stop selling gas powered equipment.

"Sorry, we are no longer able to service your lawn at $125 per month. Due to new expensive regulations, your new cost for lawn service with new electric mowers, is now $400 per month."

I mean if I ran a lawn service. I'd just drive over a state and grab a ICE mower and bring it back.