Some 56V Ego products. My thoughts:

Ego lawnmower - Impressive

Ego Chainsaw - Awesome (13 rounds on a 12" doug fir tree with the weakest battery)

Ego Hedge trimmer awesome

Ego weed wacker awesome

Ego blower awesome

With my weakest 2.0 mah battery I can mow the yard, then use the same one to weed wack the edges and then pull it out and stick it in the blower to blow off the crap on the driveway. My kid bought me the chainsaw cause I'm out in the woods a lot. I save it's much larger 5.0 mah cap battery for those trips or serious times.

I'm happy enough with my Lowes Kobalt Hedge Trimmer. I manage to trim everything on my 1/2 acre property with plenty of juice to spare. Because I already have the battery & charger I just bought their blower. They had a sale for the tool only, for 49.00. I bought it to blow off my cars after washing since the Husqvarna back pack blowwer is too unwieldy for that.

Volts are King. The higher the Volts, the better.

I have a lot of experience with a EGO 56v blower for 2 years now. It does 4,000 sq foot of pavers around a house, no problem on one battery. Yes the batteries are expensive, if you want a spare one. It's 90% as powerful as my gas hitachi blower, without the gas, noise, and it's lighter.

I have gas powered, corded and battery devices. Some of the devices in multiple iterations. There's a time and place for each.

Gas powered beasts: Great for seasonal heavy leaf clutter on the lawn. Battery mower won't mulch as well. My edger is gas powered and I'll probably stick with that. Lots of power. For heavy debris, gas blower.

Corded devices: I have about 125 feet of fencing I have to attack with a hedge trimmer several times a year. 100 foot extension cord on a reel gets me to the fence and 50 foot extension cord off the reel allows mobility. No batteries to worry about running out or waiting to charge. I also like my corded chainsaw. Start and stop, stop and start effortlessly with the pull of a trigger. Not worried about batteries, very low maintenance and I remain completely focused on the job at hand.

Battery: Older 40V combo Black & Decker blower trimmer. Blower is laughable and seldom used. Trimmer is powerful enough for my whacking needs but the battery doesn't last quite long enough and takes too long to charge. 80V Kobalt mower for two years now and love it for grab and go, get at right now, mowing when the grass isn't real tall, real wet and little to no fallen leaves. My gas mower mulches great but I wouldn't mow with the battery powered Kobalt without a grass catcher on the back. When I replace the Black & Decker combo, it will be with 80V Kobalt blower and whacker.

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Originally posted by Kuisis:

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
I have a DeWalt 20V chainsaw. I can do some damage with it and two 5 amp hour batteries. I also have the 20V brushless blower. Sure beats dragging a cord around and does an excellent job.

How long does a battery last on the chainsaw, also, how thick of branches can it cut easily?

I was cutting branches about 6-7 inches in diameter over about 3 hours and didn’t even run both batteries down. It zips right through them.

I have the 56v EGO system, with 16" bar chainsaw and a leaf blower. My B-I-L has the 14" bar chainsaw, a leaf blower, and some other tools. I have one 2.5 Ah battery and one 5 Ah battery. He has a handful of 2.5 Ah batteries.

We bought the EGO saws to help clear family ranch land of pine trees that were damaged from huge snow storms and near hurricane-force winds in March-April 2019. We have 2 Stihl gas-powered 2-stroke saws with 18" and 20" bars for the larger trunks and branches -- say, 9-10 inches in diameter, and up to 30 inches in diameter.

The EGO saws are nice when untangling the cluster of dead branches on the ground. We end up cutting a few branches, setting the saw down, tossing the limbs into the truck, the repeating the process again...and again...and again. It's nicer to set a battery-powered saw down on the ground -- which is quiet -- than a gas-powered one that does as much idling as cutting. In normal cutting days, we consume the power of a 2.5 Ah battery or two. I've only fully run down the 5 Ah battery once, in what was a really heavy day of cutting.

The EGO saws will cut through 9-10" logs nicely, but by this size the gas saws perform better. But with the trade off of noise and 2-stroke engine exhaust.

So far we've cleared maybe 30 acres of forest land, with roughly 90% of the work done with the EGO saws. However we've cut only a few of the dead standing trees with the EGOs -- there are probably 90-100 trees with only the bottom halves still standing. We'll go after them with the Stihl gas saws as we need the wood.

We are pleasantly surprised how well the battery-powered saws function.

I have the Greenworks 14" 40volt chainsaw & the 13" trimmer.

They both work as well as needed. They both work harder than I wish to.

I have two 4AH batteries, and have never needed more before my own motivation petered out.

I went to battery powered blower and weedwhacker a couple seasons ago and love them.

If you have have a lot of leaves and need to blow them around large property, then a backpack gasoline blower is still required, but for grass clippings off the driveway/sidewalks and blowing stuff out of the garage or patio, the battery one is great.

Mine use the same 20V batteries as my power tools.

Beware the Kobalt 40V/80V OPE battery system!

I have a Kobalt 40V mower that I was very happy with last year. The mower is great. Everything I was looking for.

Go to charge the battery at the beginning of this season, and the thing is DOA. LOTS of complaints about this online. Seems like the problem is that if the battery is completely discharged, the charger won't read it and can't charge it. I've read scattered reports of folks being able to use blade terminals to trickle charge the battery to the point where the charger will pick it up, but what a PITA.

I'm very happy with my Milwaukee 18V FUEL OPE, which so far includes the line trimmer, blower, and chainsaw.

I figure if they can get a chainsaw to run well enough on an 18V battery, a mower shouldn't be too much trouble. Really hope they get around to designing one soon.

-Rob

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Originally posted by esdunbar:
I went to battery powered blower and weedwhacker a couple seasons ago and love them.

Same here, picked up a Ryobi 40V trimmer and blower; the blower for light cleanup. Electric blower for the heavy fall leaf cleanup.

Bought An Echo 58v chainsaw, trimmer (also has a brush cutter attachment) and blower last year. No issues with any of them.

The dealer I bought them from is also a Stihl dealer and they said Echo was a generation ahead of Stihl in regards to battery technology.

The difference between the products is the tenure and dedication to the battery pack. I was an early adaptor buying a leaf blower in 2017, and the battery pack is no longer made. I have a Kobalt string trimmer that still works well, but that battery pack (bought in 2018) is no longer made either. IF you are talking about buying a Milwaukee chainsaw, weed eater of pruning saw, those batteries (m18) are tried and true, with close to 120 million produced - they won't walk away and make a different version next week. I suspect the same to be true of Dewalt.

In Europe, a lot of battery manufacturers have to have a common IP so product changes don't leave customers high and dry, and allow them to buy any battery they want. I'd like to see fewer battery packs available, and wish we could get a commitment from manufacturers that support will be available for no less than 5 years.

We've been very impressed with the EGO 56V 15" trimmer and 56V 24" hedge clippers. I'll be buying the 56V blower next.

I have a cheap Black and Decker 40V set my brother gave me. I'm 3 seasons in and still kicking on the original batteries. I can weed eat and blow my yard in one charge. The more modern systems last longer with more power.

I did a LOT of research on battery lawnmowers and came to the conclusion that if you have a small yard and don’t mulch your grass, they are good. The biggest thing that concerned me was the cost of extra and replacement batteries, they often cost as much as the mower itself. I also read that they just didn’t have the comparable power of a gas mower.

I have a 20V Kobalt leaf blower and weed whacker that share the same set of batteries and they seem good enough for me, but I settled on a gas Honda mower recently as I want that extra power for mulching and have a pretty good size yard

I have a Dewalt electric trimmer that was great in the beginning but only lasted two seasons. This is the third season I have had it and it doesn't even finish have of my lawn now. I saw the cost of a new battery and...no thanks.

As a result, I just ordered a 4 stroke Honda trimmer and it will be here next week. I might keep the battery one as a backup.

I've got the Ego lawn mower. We're about an acre, although some of that wooded. It's really great.