My Home Depot Has No Gas Powered Lawn Equipment

[billt460]

They used to have a nice display of Echo gas saws, power blowers, hedge trimmers, weed trimmers, etc. No more. Now it's all battery. I didn't even see a gas powered mower.

They still sell 2 stroke oil, spark plugs, Tru-Fuel, and air filter elements... At least for the time being. Sad.

 

[Lubener]

They sold out and likely will reorder for spring. The battery units must be leftovers that no one wants to buy.

 

[2009Caraman]

What time did you go in? Maybe they only let you buy gas powered after 9am, 10am on the weekends?

 

[mrsilv04]

They sold out and likely will reorder for spring. The battery units must be leftovers that no one wants to buy.

Battery powered was all mine had back in July. It doesn't appear to be a "leftovers" issue... at least at my local store.

 

[AZjeff]

They used to have a nice display of Echo gas saws, power blowers, hedge trimmers, weed trimmers, etc. No more. Now it's all battery. I didn't even see a gas powered mower.

They still sell 2 stroke oil, spark plugs, Tru-Fuel, and air filter elements... At least for the time being. Sad.

How much gas OPE do you need over there to deal with landscape gravel and cactus??

 

[MParr]

SHAZAM ! You will see similar things at Lowe’s.

 

[Rogueman2016s]

sad how times are changing I love gas powered equipment, I am glad however that I have very little grass to mow my Ryobi 40v mower and string trimmer suits my needs just fine. still have my gas/mix backpack blower and will continue until she quits on me.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Same at all the stores here too except Rural King. I only buy Stihl equipment now so I just go to Rural King. A few summers when we were looking for a weed eater we originally purchased a Milwaukee one and it was junk so we had to return it and I got the Stihl. The only reason we even tried the Milwaukee is because Home Depot or Lowe’s didn’t have except one model of gas and it was bottom of the barrel consumer grade. Sad how it’s come to this. I will never buy battery or corded lawn tools.

 

[walterjay]

Same at all the stores here too except Rural King. I only buy Stihl equipment now so I just go to Rural King. A few summers when we were looking for a weed eater we originally purchased a Milwaukee one and it was junk so we had to return it and I got the Stihl. The only reason we even tried the Milwaukee is because Home Depot or Lowe’s didn’t have except one model of gas and it was bottom of the barrel consumer grade. Sad how it’s come to this. I will never buy battery or corded lawn tools.

You will eventually be forced to buy battery powered lawn equipment.

 

[AutoMechanic]

You will eventually be forced to buy battery powered lawn equipment.

Unfortunately so. That’s why I’m buying all the gas stuff now and stuff that will last years.

 

[SevenBizzos]

The gas powered are eventually going to get regulated out of existence. Time to stock up or buy electric.

 

[billt460]

Unfortunately so. That’s why I’m buying all the gas stuff now and stuff that will last years.

I'm the same way. I have no use for battery powered lawn and garden equipment. My gas equipment will outlive me.

 

[atikovi]

What time did you go in? Maybe they only let you buy gas powered after 9am, 10am on the weekends?

Why?

 

[2009Caraman]

Why?

Because their neighbors complained about the noise

 

[spasm3]

 

[atikovi]

Dude needs to visit an orthodontist. I haven't seen him close his lips once in that video.

 

[billt460]

What a load of crap.

 

[pghvolvo]

I just checked the stores around me (Pittsburgh) and they had Toro and Murray gas powered lawn mowers in stock, available for immediate pickup. I know California wants to outlaw gasoline powered lawn care equipment. Maybe Californians are driving over to Arizona and buying up all the gasoline powered equipment.

 

[Hall]

Local HD has close to a dozen different models of self-propelled lawn mowers "in store" (and they have 8, 12, 17, 21, etc of each of those available). I could check trimmers and other tools but clearly it's a seasonal or market thing, not some grand conspiracy of getting rid of gas-powered tools. Even more telling, no one will be mowing grass for the next 3+ months here so if they did get rid of them, they'd get rid of battery-powered ones too, temporarily, of course.

 

[ripcord]

The electric stuff is great for the box stores... they'll get to sell you stuff over and over again. Batteries don't last forever, the electric motors die after a few hundred hours, plastic gears strip out, etc.