Battery Powered Lawn Tools

[MontuckyFried]

The milw blower is just ok from what I've heard. Depends on your needs I guess.

I love mine, but a heavy duty blower it is not. It's really light weight and easy to just pick up and use any time you need it real quick. It's perfect for cleaning off the driveway and sidewalk after a mow or blowing out the gravel once in a while. Chews through a battery FAST, but it's good enough for maybe like 10 minutes of blowing. Definitely my most power hungry M18 tool out of my quiver. Since I picked it up on sale for like $80 I certainly can't complain. But yeah, I'd agree with what you hear that it's "Ok." Totally worth it when on sale. Maybe not at retail price though.

[whyturn]

Anybody know the life expectancy of the jumbo lawnmower batteries? I looked up a replacement for the Egos and about choked when I saw the prices. I've been tempted to go battery for a while, but dang. For the price of one battery, I can almost buy THREE replacement knock-off Honda engines from Harbor Freight. Haha. Li-Ion tech has come a long way though and my Milwaukee batteries have been perfectly bomber, but don't know about how these super high amperage batteries will fare. I remember the early days of cordless lawnmowers back in the 90s, when they were pretty terrible. Those were probably NiCad or normal lead-acid, though, so probably nothing like today's models.

Going on 4 years and they are charging and working fine. Works for me


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[XXX-er]

I just scored a lightly used Honda 214 sx for only 150$, buddy told me it stalled on his wife so she went out and bought another mower cuz he was off in camp

When i got it home sure enough it stalls after 100m so goggle stalling honda which tell me to clean the carb, watch a couple of vids now i'm a honda mechanic

self propelled mowers with tons of power are the shit IME

[uglymoney]

The Honda carbs are not very ethanol resistant. Got a free self propelled Honda powered MTD mower from a neighbors wife after he passed from cancer. $27 genuine Honda carb off Amazon. 2 bolts and about 45 minutes to replace and it has run perfect ever since.

I was going to get an electric one to replace my 20ish year old Craftsman...but free is free.

[XXX-er]

At 150 $ I got a bargoon from a driller who makes way too much money,

if that carb hadn't fucked up I wouldn't have got the deal

So I picked up an in-line fuel filter for 6$ at the honda dealer,

and i can probably sell the old MTD for 150 $

[bourbonisgood]

love my 40v craftsman mower and weedeater. gas stuff feels so dumb for a little city lot.

curious about mags experiences with electric chainsaws and extended hedgetrimmers for quiet work in the forest, where discretion is advised. got a stihl MS180 and 036 for gas, but certain spots I;m working on could use some quiet.

Been running the Ego Power + CS1804 for going on a year now. Been really impressed, but it still isn’t a substitute for a nice gas saw. It is damn quiet though, and would get lots of discreet trail work done! If you’re swinging through my neck of the woods anytime soon, you’re welcome to borrow it for be a day or two and try it out

[Brasso]

Plan on getting a battery string trimmer. The vibration and noise of the gas model under your armpit drives me insane. Then you have to reload strings all the time (have the quick release head), restarting the gas sucks for that. Some small engines are pretty shitty too, although my Echo stuff has been pretty stout. I don’t think battery snowblowers would work that well. Snowblowers should be borderline heavy equipment to work.

I scored an older B&D electric string trimmer from a friend for $10. On the "2" setting (more power vs more battery life in "1), it's a beast. It doesn't quite make it all around the yard on one charge, but I'd imagine modern electric string trimmers are even better. Totally worth it having to charge the unit and come back later/the next day vs reeking of 2-stroke mix and having to pull-start.

[MontuckyFried]

Going on 4 years and they are charging and working fine. Works for me

Good to know! Thanks. Electric lawn equipment is sounding better now that ethanol-free fuel is getting harder and harder to find these days which makes my equipment all run like ass. Been buying the pre-mix cans at the hardware store which works pretty good, but it's still always a PITA to pull-start that stupid weed eater either way. The lawnmower look great, but the carb's always been finicky and kinda over it. My yard's not really very big or hilly at all, so I think an electric will MORE than suffice for my humble needs.

[snowaddict91]

I did the ryobi blower and weedeater that takes the regular one+ batteries a few years ago after I couldn't get my almost new husky weedeater to run worth a shit, even after taking it to a shop for a tuneup under warranty. For my small yard it is the way to go.

I can do the whole yard on one battery easily, but I have enough batteries that it wouldn't be an issue anyways.

I did borrow my neighbor's commercial-grade backpack blower for leaves at my old place, but I probably would have done that anyways.

[MontuckyFried]

Not to mention the amount of gas and oil that is spilled while filling these machines.
...
Fact: Over 17 million gallons of gas are spilled each year refueling lawn and garden equipment – more oil than was spilled by the Exxon Valdez..

You can blame the government and the asinine "SAFETY" cans they mandate for that one. I guarantee whatever asshat bureaucrat that came up with that one has never had to mow a day in their life. Prolly lives in a nice apartment in DC or has hired lawn services. Haha. I've bought I don't know how many of those things and every single one has been a huge piece of crap, even when I've ponied up for a more expensive one. I never used to spill gas back when he had the simple old metal cans. Now with the modern plastic ones, gas will just leak out the side of the nozzle as you're filling up the mower. Or they spray out a cloud of fuel when you vent them on a hot day before using them. I curse those stupid things every time I have to use them.

[riser4]

I think the folks using battery or corded snowblowers live where the snow is dry. Here in VT I've ruined one electric and one gas snowblower that was underpowered. When we actually get a big dump, it's usually wet.

[frorider]

Hmm. Saw a snowblower for $1400 — 100 Volt, 4000 W...over 5 hp...maybe there will be ones available that could handle tahoe storms.

Just because I can service carbs and gap a plug doesn’t mean I’m emotionally attached to these noisy fuckers. And gas powered leaf blowers are satan incarnate.

[MontuckyFried]

And gas powered leaf blowers are satan incarnate.

Seriously. And they always go bananas with those things at like 6:00 on a Saturday morning. Haha.

[riser4]

Seriously. And they always go bananas with those things at like 6:00 on a Saturday morning. Haha.

I'd prefer that to my well off neighbors who have staff. There's a good chance I am on a call with management whenever they feel the urge to run the things, M-F 08:00 to 16:30.

[riser4]

Hmm. Saw a snowblower for $1400 — 100 Volt, 4000 W...over 5 hp...maybe there will be ones available that could handle tahoe storms.

Just because I can service carbs and gap a plug doesn’t mean I’m emotionally attached to these noisy fuckers. And gas powered leaf blowers are satan incarnate.

For sure. Noisy, smelly, and teh suck.