06-05-2018, 10:43 PM
Speaking of cordless lawn care, I just doubled down on mine. Bought a cordless Makita mower a while back because I remember my dad going through about 3 cheap gas mowers in 5 years. I also needed an excuse to buy a set of 5ah batteries for my tools with a nice dual charger. It was also in the way of everything in his garage. I can't count the number of times I pushed the damn thing (and half the garage in order to do just that) out of the way of a cabinet I needed, only to have to push it back to get out the back door. With my full-on resto going on the garage at the old place I was looking to avoid that and get something that could fold up along the wall.
Can't say I regretted it too much. It's definitely a bit of a love/hate relationship. I'm glad I have it at the new place because I have to carry it up a set of stairs to get to my lawn. I hate it because the previous owners must've left a month ago and I had to tackle a thick, knee-high, soaking wet lawn with it thanks to all the rain we had last week. Basically had to mow it three times but it's a small lawn so it wasn't TOO bad. It also died the first run with just one pass left so that was a real drag.
I doubled down by buying a 40V-x Ryobi today because I had a shit ton of brush to trim and wanted a blower as well.
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Bought the head+string trimmer, brush cutter and blower for ~$300. It all made short work of clearing out what was probably years of neglect in order to get some form of visitor parking at my place. Probably would have been better to get the gas version in the long run but the 40v seems to have plenty of power. 475CFM and 140MPH felt pretty impressive out of the little blower attachment.
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I can definitely see it not being it worth it for most people but after years of dealing with my dad's old gas stuff not starting or running well, being able to snap in a battery and push a button gives me a real hard on.
Can't say I regretted it too much. It's definitely a bit of a love/hate relationship. I'm glad I have it at the new place because I have to carry it up a set of stairs to get to my lawn. I hate it because the previous owners must've left a month ago and I had to tackle a thick, knee-high, soaking wet lawn with it thanks to all the rain we had last week. Basically had to mow it three times but it's a small lawn so it wasn't TOO bad. It also died the first run with just one pass left so that was a real drag.
I doubled down by buying a 40V-x Ryobi today because I had a shit ton of brush to trim and wanted a blower as well.
Bought the head+string trimmer, brush cutter and blower for ~$300. It all made short work of clearing out what was probably years of neglect in order to get some form of visitor parking at my place. Probably would have been better to get the gas version in the long run but the 40v seems to have plenty of power. 475CFM and 140MPH felt pretty impressive out of the little blower attachment.
I can definitely see it not being it worth it for most people but after years of dealing with my dad's old gas stuff not starting or running well, being able to snap in a battery and push a button gives me a real hard on.