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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHas anybody tried "self-propelled, battery" mowers?
As I proceed with my decrepitity, still doing my own yard while rationing the heat quotient schedule and crapping out after one hour for a 23 hours break, the end is in sight, meaning PAYING.
So tried a riding mower a few years ago, the low priced thousand one, and it crapped out any time of the 3 times per year I needed to use it.. Plus it didn't help that my "helpful" neighbor, a Tim-the-Toolman type drooled to take it apart, and what parameters I put on him, the little things I let him do, it was never the same again.
So after a couple of years, I donated it to the VFW. Little did I know that they knew how to fix it and are probably using it to this day.
So in the past 3 months when it was raining hard every week and I had to cut the danged weeds weekly during the breaks, I decided to try SOMETHING NEW, a battery self-propelled thing. This, pending the coming year when I will have to ditch it all and hire somebody.
*** So, battery/electric is very different for me. The 60(W?) battery thing weighs a ton (5 lbs?). It's cumbersome, lumbersome to maneuver along.
And it makes a low hum instead of roaring around. Hmmm. ***OH, didn't mention: No gas, no oil, no CORD! (But still WEIRD)
I donne kno. Gotta say the engineering is smart, simple to mount up, charge, (insert something else here). What does Lounge say?
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)This thing SPARKS/ARCs something fierce when plugging into the wall.
I've done the Google thing and seems like the charger into the wall goes first, which I did today.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)I've got a battery push mower. It's light. I use 40v batteries, but because it's my second Kobalt battery mower (there's a story behind that), I've accumulated a two amp/hr, a four amp/hour, and two five amp/hour batteries. With that large a battery supply, I could now two additional (neighbors') yards and my daughter's. Yes, the 60v batteries are tanks. Best thing about these machines, except for the quietness and the cleanliness, is the fact that they start effortlessly, every time. I read that nearly all of the self-propelled battery mowers use up too much juice and don't last long on a charge, and the replacement batteries are very spendy. Best of luck.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,133 posts)Je sens que tu vas bientôt payer.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,133 posts)Hey. Jacaranda are so purty! Are they viable in what zones?
Thunderbeast
(3,377 posts)Battery lasts over an hour. Charges fast.
I can do my steep lawn on one charge.
EGO mower from Ace Hardware or Lowe's.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)markie
(22,755 posts)EGO mower (and weedwacker/trimmer and chainsaw)... I mow approx. an acre with it and usually take time to charge in the middle... I have zero complaints and it makes me feel like I've made it to the 21st century
MiHale
(9,593 posts)Try this.
jmowreader
(50,447 posts)One fine day during the summer heat wave I went out to the garage to get something or another, and I noticed that my gas can had become spherical in shape. It wasn't supposed to be spherical, but that's what it turned into. And I'm like "I spent too much time and money making this place nice to have it burned down by lawn mower gas." So, I topped off the old mower, poured the rest of the gas in the can into my car, and decided that as soon as the mower ran out of gas I would buy a battery-powered one.
I got a Ryobi 40-volt mower. I like it a lot. I also have the Ryobi 40-volt weed eater, which uses the same battery. My yard isn't that big, and I can get one mowing plus one weed-eating out of one charge.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)Strangely seems to roll easy without the propelling on level non-dense parts. Jerks me when shifting.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Good for small to decent sized yards
The real bonus is that they are quiet so you an listen to podcasts while you mow.