/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1461289]

Anyone have any experience with electric lawn mowers? How well do they work? Is it just a good idea conceptually, or are they actually useful for general purposes, instead of specific circumstances?

[Anonymous No.1461290]

>>1461289
I like them. I've used them for years. 17 years to be exact. I'm on my third one. I don't have a huge lawn, only about 3500 square feet. Works great for me. Pros: quieter, no smelly fumes, no gas to keep around. Cons: sometimes a little underpowered, if not cordless the cord can be challenging.

[Anonymous No.1461350]

Actually I've only ever used one mower, and I've had it for almost 20 years. It has a cord
Pros:
>Never once has failed to run
>Literally no maintenance required on the motor or rotor blade
>Much quieter
>potentially cheaper to run
>Easier for children to use

Cons:
>Might be a bit underpowered for me, although I live in an area with very thick grass and I suspect it would be quite adequate for more normal lawns
>Several extension cords are needed to cover an ample lawn
>Sometimes it trips the breaker
>Unsafe to use in rain

[Anonymous No.1461355]

>>1461350
>not driving around town on a bitchn' John deer lawn mower
What a faggot

[Anonymous No.1461362]

>>1461289
They work fine for small lawns, for anything else the cord becomes annoying to manage or the battery runs out.

[Anonymous No.1461491]

>>1461350
>20 years w/o sharpening mower blades
>yard is brown instead of green

[Anonymous No.1461544]

>>1461355
No need if you have a small lawn. I got 1.1 acres so I got myself a trusty 1988 wheel horse

[Anonymous No.1461552]

>>1461290
That .jpg makes me wonder if im talking to a soiboy right now

[Anonymous No.1461565]

I’ve got an electric mower as well as a bunch of electric power tools. With two sets of batteriesthat are interchangeable between tools, I can easily get my whole lawn.
Only issue is the power. It’ll crap out if the grass is too tall/thick, but I got the smaller model so it could also be the blade.
Overall, real nice and incredibly conventient for all tools to run on the same batteries that charge in a few hours.

[Anonymous No.1461567]

>>1461289
I'm not sure if they will work at 10am when its time to mow and the grass is still damp.

[Anonymous No.1461577]

>>1461567
why the fuck would you mow when the grass is wet?

[Anonymous No.1461584]

>>1461289
Not tryna hijack your thread but i have a 1.5hp winch motor. Is it big enough to run a tri-blade deck?

[Anonymous No.1461585]

>>1461577
>not mowing at 4am
Do you even boom?

[Anonymous No.1461586]

>>1461355
>mfw hydrostatic rear end. Ride to bros up the street.
>drink a beer
>spin tires
>ride back home

[Anonymous No.1461588]

>>1461544
Mfw 2 acres of yard and a fucking snapper.

Can't descide if i want a bigger motor or just drop monies and electrify the deere.

Would be really sweet if i could just get my rc mower to run by itself

[Anonymous No.1461611]

>>1461289
Corded are a pain in the ass. Battery powered are decent but of course only run so long. Both are limited to small lawns due to battery or cable length

[Anonymous No.1461683]

>>1461350
>Several extension cords are needed to cover an ample lawn
>Sometimes it trips the breaker

If you're going to get a corded moded get a nice and thick quality ~12 gauge extension cord with it. People daisy chain 3 18 gauge extension cords and wonder why they trip breakers and burn up brushes. The same goes for big power tools.

[Anonymous No.1462281]

>>1461289
I use a sun j oe corded mower with an inverted and a car battery strapped to it. It is slightly weaker than a gas mower but does fine. I know for 40 minutes and it only gets down to 12.2 volts.

[Anonymous No.1462316]

>>1461683
>not having an auto-retracting reel large enough to deliver 16A@230V to your whole garden bolted to your garage wall
>not having IP outlets strategically located around the perimeter of your garden and house

[Anonymous No.1462507]

>>1462316
Why drag around 50lbs of extension cord when you can just use gas like a real man?

[Anonymous No.1462853]

>>1461588
john deere + roomba =

[Anonymous No.1465417]

>grew up with a corded mower
>buy house
>immediately get a gas mower

Sorry boys I wasn't going through that shit again.

[Anonymous No.1465457]

>>1465417
I mean they have cordless electric mowers

[Anonymous No.1465458]

>>1465457
I can bog down my 6.5hp gas mower. Fuck a 500 watts of bullshit.

[Anonymous No.1465460]

>>1462507
Are you deaf?
Also push mower or your a poof

[Anonymous No.1465461]

>>1465458
An electric motor produces maximum torque at stall.
Probably electric will beat gas on everything except runtime

[Anonymous No.1465463]

>>1465461
If your blade is spinning at the motors stall speed then you aren't cutting shit. Battery powered motors can't match the 10+ kw's that gas mowers put out.

[Anonymous No.1465464]

>>1461289
i have an ego elec lawn mower I use around my house
>works really great for normal grass (5k sq ft with 5ah batt IIRC)
>get a self-propelled version (w/ drive wheels)
>does not work on bushes with over 0.25in stem

also have 15 hp gas lawnmower
>cuts down small trees in field

bigger is better when it comes to tools of all types imho

[Anonymous No.1465473]

I've been using an EGO mower for about 5 years now. Takes about 1.5 hrs. to mow my lawn, and I've got a couple rentals that I take care of occasionally.

It's quiet and there's almost zero maintenance. Super lightweight. I've got 2 5Ah batteries that let me get most jobs done without any break.

Problem has been with the batteries. 3 have failed outright. EGO replaced 2 without much more than a phone call (they were within the 3 year warranty, and bought from Lowe's) but the 4th died just into year 4, and they're $200+ to replace.

I'll pay the premium because I like the quiet and can afford it, but for joe homeowner, I don't think the battery tech is quite there yet.

[Anonymous No.1465475]

I have an earthwise mower for my >1000sqft lawn. 0 maintenance, plug and play. The cord is a pain to deal with and power is lacking having used commercial mowers.

I also have a ryobi straight shaft cordless string trimmer. I love it aside from the POS head on it.

>>1461567
Back when I did grass cutting for a living we started at 8am. Wet grass is no match for a 26hp stand on Toro

[Anonymous No.1465574]

>>1465473
its more cost effective to go out and buy another tool kit like a blower or chainsaw than buy another battery on its own. thats how they get you, the batteries are expensive to produce but they jack up the prices so you go out and buy another tool and expand your investment into their line rather than just have one tool with a couple batteries.

[Anonymous No.1467589]

Victa 82v lawn equipment its the shit!

[Anonymous No.1467610]

>>1461290

>Enough money to own a car
>Poverty

Your idea of poverty is kind of skewed

[Anonymous No.1467613]

>>1465457
C'mon now. I used a battery powered weed whacker till I got a gas powered one. It was such a pussy. The gas one fuckin annihilated plantlife

[Anonymous No.1467845]

>>1461355
>Not using the baby Kubota for smoke runs.

[Anonymous No.1469319]

>>1461289
Corded are good for one reason, the super light weight. Think vacuum cleaner sweeps rather than pushing a mower - lots of sweeps, lets you remove the patterning and go over bumpy and finicky areas repeatedly getting an even cut.

If your grass is even a little bit heavy watch out. Also Americans watch out 120V means half power what rest of world gets. People say use whippersnippers and brushcutters with attachments - but even a small grassed area is better done with a mower.

[Anonymous No.1469504]

Don't get a cordless unless you have pussy grass and mow every week. Shit can't handle anything dense. Corded ones are great, just don't run over the cord

[Anonymous No.1469583]

>>1461290
1 in 15 black men behind bars.

Must be racism. Couldnt be the prisoners fault!.

[Anonymous No.1470160]

>>1461552
>smelly fumes
>3500 sqft yard
>encombered by gas

Soiboi confirmed

[Anonymous No.1470163]

>>1467610

Not that person, but poverty is 100% a relative term that is different in each city, state, country, etc.

As plenty of breitfart plebs are aware, the "poverty" line in San Francisco, CA is a combined income over $100,000.

[Anonymous No.1470164]

>>1469319
>120V means half power what rest of world gets
what are the typical breaker sizes in UK/europe anyway? Do they have 15-20 amp circuits on 240v there?

[Anonymous No.1470388]

>>1470160
EWWW THAT GASOLINE... IT SHTINKS

[Anonymous No.1470405]

>>1470164
The UK has 30 amp breakers in a ring. That's why they chose their outlets and plus

[Anonymous No.1470506]

>>1470405
30A for the whole ring, but what are the outlets usually fused at? or are the outlets unfused and the fuses are in the appliance plugs?

[Anonymous No.1470514]

>>1461355
John Deer is now becoming one of those that hate people doing repairs, if that article I read is to be believed

[Anonymous No.1470544]

>>1470514
Doesn’t apply to mowers. The issue is with tractors and access to software. JD has been making it so even basic repairs require at least resetting the computer(like clearing a check engine code in cars) but only JD dealers have the ability to do that so you end up waiting hours or sometimes days for a tech to show up plus a couple hundred bucks or more for the service call. Some dealers really overcharge and some even have special rates for “peak seasons” which is spring and fall so basically any time the tractors are actually being used

[Anonymous No.1470730]

>>1461290

Tech and advances in defense because investing in investigation is 80% os that is militarism and war.

And you are using the internet, and satellites, and computers...

git out.

[Anonymous No.1471256]

>>1462853
Just tape some knives to the roomba

[Anonymous No.1471393]

>>1470730
It is possible to be against Capitalism but for a free market.