Honda Gas Powered Mower vs. Ego Battery Powered Mower
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Comments (8)But Digit, that sounds like every other Monday! :-) I just so wanted to get the stinky, sticky yellow flowers mowed before they seed out. Yuck, I do not like those things & the horses won't eat 'em. Actually, this streak IS getting weird. Two weeks ago I had two tires go flat (one on my tractor, one on my Dodge). Then the two carbeurator problems on the tiller and chipper last week. Took apart the mower today and it was the cable to the starter button was broken. Took apart the weed eater and it's the cable to the trigger! Things are happening in two's! What does this mean???????!! Cosmic forces are aligning. Something big is going to happen. Cheers, Michelle...See MoreBest Cordless/Battery System? Ego? Echo? Other?
Comments (5)Although I bought my echo58v trimmer from home depot for $269, at least it came with a 4ah battery and charger. I have found out since then that for my front yard, which is approximately one acre, the 4ah battery is too much. I never use half, even with heavy spring growth. I discovered ebay has the stuff for sale, and bought 4 other batteries for 150. I also scored the 58v chainsaw for $75. It will eat a battery. It took 3 batteries to take the top out of a fully grown hickory that fell over. The wood resides in my smoker piles now. During that run I bent the blade and in ignorance messed up the simple rubber oil feed. I sourced parts out of Miami of all places and rebuilt it. I found out the bladeis the thinner type used on pole saws, and since the hickory trunk incident, I have only used it for trimming and small trees with no further incidents. I would say best battery design goes to ego, as the heat absorbing polymer cladding seem to keep them cooler, and this is more important than you know because those batteries have a lot of energy and can blow or burn when things go wrong. I would say generally that the devices are slightly heavier than their gas counterparts, with all the motor wire and battery weight. It sure is nice to click and go though. I am hesitant about the echo blower, as our needs are a bit heavier than some, with loads of trees on the other 2 acres where the house sits. I may get one anyway for sport. The trimmer power heads are supposed to be compatible with some line of echos multi use tips. I could not beat the price when I averaged thing out. I really want to see if the trim mower is nice and light. My gasser is self propelled and I like it a lot but its a bit of a load with electric start and a battery itself....See MoreBattery powered mower suggestions needed
Comments (14)hi, i just picked up my first lawn boy 2 stroke a couple day's ago, looking forward to trying to bring it back to life. big rock hard nuts i think would have an impact on a light weight mower, any mower, especially blades. might have to invest in a good rake and turn this into a 2 part job. from what i've seen and heard those old lawn boys where a durable machine. as a matter of fact, i responded to this ad, it's an hour out but looks like a fun project. emailed last night, haven't heard back from the poster, think it's gone? the 1 i picked up earlier is under "estate sale" a couple posts below. Lawnboy gas mower - $25 hide this posting Lawnboy gas lawn mower with 2 grass chutes and a grass bag. I can't mow my lawn anymore, so don't need it. It did work last year. asking $25...See MoreElectric (battery) lawn mowers
Comments (1)I'll never own a gas mower again. Electric technology is superior but unfortunately just as there are bad gas mower manufacturers there are bad electric mower manufacturers. Avoid EGO and Echo. EGO has a great battery system and all of their tools except their mower are quite good but their mower lacks suction/vacuum so it leaves a lot of blades of grass uncut, doesn't suck up leaves, is quite aweful for mulching, etc. Echo has a quite awful battery mgmt system which is really stupid in this day and age with decades of good battery mgmt systems in existence (I've still got original Panasonic and Milwaukee hand tool batteries in use). Echo batteries degrade quickly and we had some that stopped taking a charge. At first Echo were good about replacements but then got jerky about it. I'm planning to sell all my EGO stuff in the spring and likely get a Toro....See MoreHU-668362700
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