Electric lawn mowers

[dlundblad]

So if you live in a residential neighborhood and your neighbor is mowing during a football game you want to watch, would you prefer him to use a gas powered mower or a battery mower?

The correct answer is to not have a neighbor this close or at least if this bothers you, don’t have a neighbor that close.

 

[grampi]

I let my lawn go to moss and clover. Didn't take the gasoline Briggs mower out at all this year. Probably won't start now.
But I am in a log cabin on a hill with a State forest preserve just behind me.

No Pleasant Vally Sunday planned "false Eden" community for me.

I have come to recognise the silliness of it all; seems so "1958"

I do miss a friendly game of Croquet on Sunday with the family, though

Dang hippies...

 

[gman2304]

Not everyone’s needs are the same. How can I currently do this 2 acre job with battery powered equipment?

 

[brianl703]

They stink like crazy.

Can't comment on the smell of 2-stroke engines, but the exhaust from my riding mower has no or very little smell. I've been behind motorcycles and cars that stink way worse.

 

[Shannow]

Just gone back to petrol after two battery mowers in 5 years...

 

[vwmaniaman]

I plan to keep my old Lawn Boy mower going as long as I can. It has very little smell or smoke with my 30;1 fuel. But it cut tall thick grass with no problem. It pulls very easy to start so my wife even gets it to run.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

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[oil pan 4]

I just repaired a battery powered one for a customer, I did a quick and dirty blade sharpening so the thing didn't have to beat it's way though the grass. After I tested it on some grass and realized how weak the thing is sharpened the blade to be knife like.
The lady says it works a lot better now, even better than when it was new.
It's still got nothing on my clapped out, about to die loaner mower with a dull blade.