Anyone use an electric lawn mower?

[eSJayDee]

Depending on how handy you are, you can modify Greenworks batteries to work in Kobalt tools (& vice versa).

Alternately, you can swap out the innards.

[ExiledInIllinois]

13 hours ago, Roundybout said:

I won’t lie, I’ve taken a good, hard look at this thing. 
 

https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lawn-and-garden/lawn-mowers/push-mowers/7006267

FIL has an old Black and Decker mower with a cord. It’s a pain to keep the cord out of the way, but it’s invincible out doing its job. 

Exactly!  We don't vacuum up the cord?  A little skill and like you said: invincible!

[ExiledInIllinois]

31 minutes ago, eSJayDee said:

Depending on how handy you are, you can modify Greenworks batteries to work in Kobalt tools (& vice versa).

Alternately, you can swap out the innards.

They also make adapters for big names.  The Chinese ones get a little more involved... But there are Chinese knockoffs.

 

All use basically same inside batteries (forget the common model number).

 

I use then to cross over DeWalt-Milwaukee-Craftsman(IIRC is Craftsman/Stanley/B&D)... B&D/Stanley is also DeWalt.

 

Only Makita stands alone... From the date of this:

 

Also... Great mods online, YouTube if you can secure a 3D printer...

 

It's all coming outta China...

CORRECTION: Hilton too...

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

13 hours ago, Roundybout said:

I won’t lie, I’ve taken a good, hard look at this thing. 
 

https://www.acehardware.com/departments/lawn-and-garden/lawn-mowers/push-mowers/7006267

 

The problem with these newer manual reel mowers is they are cheaply made, and little care is placed in their manufacturing.  Grass is ripped, whereas the manual reel mowers of the 50s actually sheared the grass.  My father had conniptions because our mailman would toss the twine from mail bundles onto the grass, screwing up the sharpness of the reel.  The air would be blue with curses when that happened. 🤬

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

48 minutes ago, eSJayDee said:

Depending on how handy you are, you can modify Greenworks batteries to work in Kobalt tools (& vice versa).

Alternately, you can swap out the innards.

With the savings, he can buy a vise! 🙄🤨

13 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

It's all coming outta China...

CORRECTION: Hilton too...

Did you mean Hilti? 🤨

[ExiledInIllinois]

22 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

With the savings, he can buy a vise! 🙄🤨

Did you mean Hilti? 🤨

Yeah! Damn AutoCorrect. I notice then AND the two BigBoxes stand alone on that chart.  I wonder where they (Husky/Kobalt) source their parts from?

[jayg]

Probably not useful to you, but maybe somebody else. I just got the EGO lawn tractor and I love it. My craftsman riding mower was still running, but after twenty three years it started to smoke. The ego was $500 off  and with the looming tariffs, or maybe not now, I went ahead and pulled the trigger. I had all greenworks yard tools but like the ego mower much better and it came with six batteries. I have .62 of an acre and it covers it easily. SO QUIET!

[yall]

I just got a Craftsman electric as a backup. Haven't used it all that much yet, but so far so good. Dual batteries, so it lasts pretty long provided your not sing the self propulsion which cuts the run time by about half.