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If you buy an electric mower, you never have to change the oil again. Or the spark plug. Or buy gas. Or clean the carburetor.
And they're quieter! God I wish my neighbors all had electric mowers. Sometimes it seems like they're invited to all the zoom meetings I attend.
And when they're being used the engine doesn't have to spin all. the. time.
The mowers are fine, it's the weedwackers that are the problem.
Electric weedwackers are also quieter.
Leafblowers. Fucking 2 cycle leafblowers.
Those too.
My next mower will probably be a lawn service
After spending several hours on Saturdays doing yardwork I didn't enjoy doing for years on end, I finally hired a gardener. Now I get to spend that time doing yardwork I do enjoy, like making landscaping improvements, or gardening.
IDK if it's the inner hispanic in me. But man do I love mowing lawns.
If you never mow and grow insect friendly lawns...you wont ever have to buy a mower...fuck lawns.
The HOA won't let me have goats to keep the grass low though
The point is not having non native grass. Use local plants and let your garden be a humming bird and bee haven.
I did this for years. I even got into the HOA board just to keep them off my back. It was so freeing to not have to mow.
I expect they do need lubrication from time to time. I just bought an electric mower this year and it's pretty low power, so I predict that any amount of additional friction in the system is going to be too much.
Wish they made an affordable electric zero turn that could handle mowing 7 acres of field 3-4 times a month in the summer. I need commercial grade sadly and thereβs nothing in the homeowner space that comes close to my needs. The commercial ones are like 30k to compare with what I got for 6k
Jokes on you, I never did most of that anyway.
Also still got the gas can from pre covid.
But you will have to buy $1000 worth of batteries if you have a large yard.
While I canβt say I have a large yard. My 80v Greenworks system can do the job 90% of the time on 1 battery (I have 2). When it canβt from being lazy and not mowing as often as I should have or it was especially rainy, I can swap the batteries in moments and the battery charges within 20 or so minutes. By then I am done or using the battery from the mower in the leaf blower or weed whacker.
I would imagine if I had a larger yard I would go with a third in the event of having longer grass to cut and would have a battery charged, battery charging, and one in use.
I would not trade my yard system with a gas one for any amount of money. If i do anything itβd be to hire someone that uses electric (quieter!) to mow and edge and all that jazz. Or use a Fiskars reel mower.
Oh yea. I drive an ID.4. Suck it gas stations trolololol.
On the flipside if your yard is that big you can save a lot on gas.
I have 1/3rd acre, takes 2 batteries to mow uninterrupted. Anything bigger than that I hope it's not just grass, that's a waste of space.
How much is a battery?