/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2777313
Dont put much thought into it. You should unironically get all gas, and its not even close.

>>2777313
gas if you want better performance and not have your tool break in a month

>>2777313
>Lawn mower
gas but if you can't maintain it properly then electric
>Weedwhacker
doesn't matter
>Saws
battery except circular.
>Leaf blowers etc.
electric corded.

>>2777313
I have ego tools, they work fine. Have had them 2 years. Have leaf blower, trimmer, mower, snow blower, and hedge trimmer. Tools are basically silent compared to neighbors loud af gas shit and work basically the same and each one came with a battery and charger so between all of them I have more than enough to keep everything running when I need it for my half acre yard. Maintaining is easy as shit too, just sharpen blades really.
If you want to be super serious about your yard get gas bc you’ll need the longer runtime. My neighbor is super serious about his yard and spends all fucking weekend and most evenings of the week doing some shit in his yard. His yard does look very nice. I just mow the lawn and clean up leaves and hedges so once a week or so so shit looks presentable and frankly I wish I didn’t have to do that much.

>>2777346
Also only buy them if you can get a sale/deal on them otherwise they’re pretty stupid expensive

>>2777346
I was thinking craftsman electric mower just to stick with the brand. Mixed reviews. No I'm not taking my lawn too seriously. I have other stuff to work on

>0.2 acre
you dont need all that shit

>>2777350
Mower and blower at a minimum

>>2777356
A rake

>>2777350
This
and >>2777373

A basic bitch gas mower and a rake is pretty much all you need for your yard.
You say you arent taking your lawn too seriously, so dont go buy a bunch of tools you dont need.

>>2777313
nigga you have ⅕ of a fucking acre, you don't need a lawn mower, you can do that with a weed eater in less than an hour
i'd recommend electric since you obviously don't know how to work on and maintain two stroke motors, and because dealing with gas is a lot more work and a lot more mess that you're probably not going to actually deal with. the difficulty will make you want to not mess with it at all.
unless you're ready to winterize your gas motors before storing them up for the season then just get electric.

>>2777313
Lawn mower is the only thing else I still have that’s gas because it’s a larger 4-cycle engine and easier to maintain. The rest is 18V Ridgid and Ryobi. The 18V packs run shit just as well as your standard 25cc Homelite with no degraded fuel lines and such. The last tool was my weed whacker, after getting the battery chainsaw and blower and hedge trimmer and seeing how well they worked, I told myself I’m getting a cordless weed whacker when the next issue with the 2-stroke model inevitably arises. The pull start mechanism shat out and I binned the thing and went 18V.

If I weren’t using the 18V packs for other tools and was only going battery powered yard equipment, I might go Ryobi 40V, the Ego 56V stuff is supposed to be real nice too.

When this mower dies, I’m like 50/50 whether I go electric or get another gas mower and see what the options are 10 years down the line when that one dies.

>>2777733
>battery chainsaw

Maybe these things make sense. I'd probably just use pruners and hand saws, or a gas chainsaw. Kinda like leaf maintenance. I'd use a rake or a gas or corded blower before I'd consider a battery blower.

>>2777313
Buy ryobi 40v on ebay.
i got the lawnmower at the local thrift for $50. Brushless.

40v 6ah batteries from 3rd party are $50 ea. Get at least 3.

Chainsaw $99, strimmer $79, pole saw head ~$59 i think.

All brushless.

OP403 or 404 chargers (slow chargers). I stay away from fast, because slow are $15. And those large batteries can get warm. They need to stay within a temp range for long life. Do not leave a battery in the mower; the early brushless versions had a clear cover, which heats up the battery in the sun.

>>2777313
it DEPENDS on your FUCKING YARD
electric mower is a little underpowered for heavy leaves, thick grass and suction (if you have a bunch of dense thin leaves or something). otherwise there is no reason to get a gas anything as a homeowner. back in indiana with fucking 10" of oak leaves, yeah I'd have a gas mower. here with not even a full layer and smaller leaves there is no fucking point to running gas.

leaf blower for a homeowner isn't even a real question, gas is for mexicans who need it to run for 8 hours.

snowblower, my ego has gotten me through several blizzards with 2' of snow. it is not as powerful as my neighbors who break out the gas snow blowers but the other 95% of the time they feel stupid and don't even get it out because it's so overkill for a few inches. up to about 8" (actual depth) of snow I can just take full passes albeit slowly, and for the 1 in 20 snows that are deeper I either do it twice during the storm, take several passes or give up and give a teenager $20. if I was further into the mountains or north or something and it snowed 1' regularly I'd definitely have a gas, but I'd also have the light electric for cleanup, drifts, porch etc. where it wasn't worth firing up the gas.

all of the electric stuff is super light too, so it's easy to store.

t. been mowing since 1984 before they had safety features, owned 5 homes since 2001 gone 100% electric and not looked back.

I'm on 1/3rd acre and have had no issues with an ego electric mower (simple 21", not self-propelled) over the last 4 years. Also have their blower (which is awesome). Had one battery act up, but was probably a cell balance issue. Would run the mower for a few seconds then shutdown with battery fault, charger refused to charge. Ran it down hard with the blower (put a clamp on the handle and ran it till it stopped several times) and then it charged up fine. That was two years ago and still using it. After 4 years I can't do the front and backyard in a single charge any more, but that just means I grab lunch while the battery recharges. Also using a bunch of Ryobi 18v stuff, but nothing really to say there. It works.

>>2777765
Keep trying to convince myself to get the ego snowblower. Still at the phase of gawking at the price despite it being easily affordable.

>>2777743
>They need to stay within a temp range for long life.
cannot get my wife to understand they go from the unit to the bench to cool, not right into the fucking charger. still my ego batts (two 4ah, two 5ah) are holding like a champ and it's been like 5 years maybe since I went electric. The 4ah are newer.

>>2777767
again it depends on your snowfall. I basically live in Denver and about once every three years it snows enough my little ego can't handle it. And it will clear a 3 car wide driveway and a corner lot sidewalk on one charge, two batteries. It also, unlike the mowers, will run on one battery. don't know why you'd do that but I guess if you have 3 and come up just a little short, or it's really light snow. Anyway it's worth it.

>>2777769
My dad keeps doing that, slapping hot battery right into the charger and bitching that the red light is blinking again.

>>2777313
>0.2 acre lot

Just go electric with that tiny postage stamp yard. Can see why electric is popular among yardlets with no acreage. You already have no responsibilities so adding a gas engine into your life would be a huge hassle...

>>2777313
>Lawn mower
battery
you can probably get away with just a weedwhacker, but I would not recommend it if you want it to look nice.
>Weedwhacker
battery
>Saws
battery chainsaw for pruning and cutting two-by-fours every now and then
corded jigsaw for fitting floorboards, shelves and stuff like that
corded circular if you have a lot of straight boards to cut (you can get away with using just a jigsaw if it's "once in a month" type of deal and use a guide)
>Leaf blowers
just use rake
you don't need a leaf blower

gas is ass to work with

>>2777769

> they are hot after i use them

That's why you
a) get the OEM
b) get the slowest charger

The ryobi knockoff will PROPERLY not let you charge when it's overtemp. If pressing the gauge button elicits flashing LED's, it's overtemp. The charger has a way of communicating that, as well. And they must be using different methods to get temp, or perhaps different parameters. Because both the battery and the charger need to agree the battery is cool enough, before it will charge.

Idk how that's not idiot proof. Getting multiples and getting a couple of slow chargers, will prevent additional heating, that may be 'in spec' but long-term damaging to the battery at that elevated temp.

>>2778449
Surprising the Ego batteries get hot. If it’s on the mower, I guess I understand, that’s a lot of cells doing a lot of work. My weed eater gets my 4.0 black Ryobi 18V packs toasty if I’m running it a lot, I’m curious to try the HP packs one day and see if there’s much of a difference.

Fwiw, the charger will still start charging when they’re somewhat warm, but not hot. I’m sure the fast charger on certain packs like 6.0 10x18650 packs will get toasty if you slap them on there right below the threshold for cooling em down.

>>2778221
I have one of the smaller Ryobi chainsaws, maybe a 12” bar, and that thing is good for shit well beyond just pruning. I’m sure 99% of homeowners would be totally fine without going gas for the occasional logjam when a storm takes out a tree if they’re running a 14”-16” brushless chainsaw, especially a 40V-60V model. I’ve fuckin buried that 18V brushed Ryobi into a stump and she kept on keepin on.

>>2778449
>>2778465
>Surprising the Ego batteries get hot.
they don't, they barely get warm. they get about as warm as AAs in an xbox S1 controller. but I still think it's best practice to let them cool before slapping them back on the charger.

>>2777767
>>2777770
If your snowfall is wet & heavy, it's probably going to not be able to clear very much. Most of their clearing claims are based upon 3" of light stuff and not 6" of heart attack.

>>2778480
surprisingly it works, I can run it right down the gutter with 50% slush and meltwater as deep as the scoop. for dense snowfall, wet heavy, you just need to advance it 6" into the pack, then back 3", then forward 6". It picks up the heavy wet shit fine, but has more difficulty clearing the chute. Thus two steps forward, one step back an you can "chop" through heavy wet stuff. Or just take half a width. When it's light and fluffy I just use one battery in my ego leaf blower. I've been seriously impressed by the little ego snow blower, it's actually what got me to try the mowers again.

>>2777313
New homeowner here as well. My yard is small enough that I can manage with just a weedeater and blower. I’ve got a Milwaukee fuel string trimmer and a small Milwaukee blower and get the grass around my driveway and the backyard cut and blown on a single charge from an 8.0 M18 battery. If it was any bigger I’d definitely get a mower which would be gas.

>2778465
>2777733
No way this retard owns a house
Shilling electric lawn tools?
Rentoid faggot with less yard than OP

>>2778861
Wew lad. What exactly am I paying all these taxes for then?
Modern 18V lithium is not your grandpa's corded plug in electric lawn tools.

>>2778861
Wew lad. What exactly am I paying all these taxes for then?
Modern 18V lithium is not your grandpa's corded plug in electric lawn tools.

>>2778873
Did bepis just dox himself like a dumbfuck?
My sides are in fucking orbit right now

>>2778882
See, this is what happens when you post without tripcodes. People wanna be me!

>>2778888
>he forgot to blur the ID number when posting his fucking publically available TAXES on the internet

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You really fucked up this time didn't you Mike?

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>>2778888
Nice quads, also nice yard. Your electric lawn tools probably work great for it.
What does your HOA say about the length of your grass?

>>2778922
Anon is dumber than he appears

>>2778925
Nice latina wife. Did she enjoy the Disney trip you spent weeks talking about?
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>>2778929
Yeee she fine, I got a keeper. I made the mango salsa with fresh mangoes from the yard for her.

>>2777313
All gas... saws are electric zoomer.
Electric mowers are.the dumbest idea ever... unless robot mower - then Husqvarna

gas/biodisel is dense energy, battery loses kick over time and corded needs to be planned.
>lawn mower
smaller than a handball court might just get by with a weedwacker used as a scythe anything larger go with the lawnmower, bigger than a tennis court gas/biodisel smaller electric if you go corded i recommend those staked hose guides to keep the cord away from your blades as you work your way across.
>weedwacker,
I have corded, but I used mine as the only grass cutting tool, define your edges drag a bit of rebar and disrupt the rocks and dirt clump, for few weeks should help define lines and cheaper than getting an edger for the few time you need it.
>saws
manual if you need bigger than a lopper i would griddle/zip tie it and come back latter, the limb will die and be much easer to handle.
>leafblower
depends on concrete area i use my leaf blower for paths of egress anything less than a basketball court electric

If you're a real man, then get gas powered yard tools for everything...

>>2778945
>Electric mowers are.the dumbest idea ever.
enjoy your gelled up carb every spring you shit for brains.

>>2779387
Even when I lived up north, I never had issues with mowers anywhere near as much as smaller 2-strokes. Maybe the fuel tanks are sealed a little better or the fancier carbs and the fact that it’s 4-smoke, they almost always started up in the spring. Maybe Briggs figured out some shit that Poulenc hasn’t.

>>2779387
Non-retards shut off the fuel (using the manual shutoff valve we install for the purpose) then run the carb dry. Alternate option drain bowl manually. I've only done that for about forty years but it works on my machines.

>>2777313
>gas
like pneumatic powered?