Battery operated mower!!!

[joken]

I saw a guy mowing very slowly with an electric mower . The grass was around 4" tall.

 

[Joe13]

I saw a guy mowing very slowly with an electric mower . The grass was around 4" tall.

My old old old one was like that but wit would cut wet 12" grass if I was to lazy to use a trimmer to cut it lower first and we hadn't had a decent set of nice days to dry it out.

The new one will ramp up the rpm's when it encounters any kind of resistance.

Again, I don't think they are for everyone's lawn but unless you have a giant area to mow and live in the city/suburbs then I would say that battery tech and the associated tools have come so far that it isn't a bad option.


BUT with everything, one size doesn't fit all.

BTW - side note. I roundup almost all of the edges on my property and especially 6-8" out from all fences. It keep me from having to trim except for a few times a season and all I have to do is mow.

 

[Probe 97]

It's electric....all electronics fail at some point.

 

[Mayoboy]

I don't have much yard, so I have a corded one. Always makes me feel like I am vacuuming my lawn lol.

 

[Jay Walk]

I purchased a new Makita Commercial self-propelled for half of retail.
It's okay, nothing to write home about, my tools are all the same battery platform.

Pro's
holds four batteries and runs off from two.
Mows smallish front lawn six times or so on two batteries.
quiet
no jizzing gas all over the damn place

Cons
Grass needs to be pretty dry.
Doesn't spin fast enough to stand up the wheel mark on the overlap.

 

[Mikej]

I purchased a new Makita Commercial self-propelled for half of retail.
It's okay, nothing to write home about, my tools are all the same battery platform.

Pro's
holds four batteries and runs off from two.
Mows smallish front lawn six times or so on two batteries.
quiet
no jizzing gas all over the damn place

Cons
Grass needs to be pretty dry.
Doesn't spin fast enough to stand up the wheel mark on the overlap.

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These electric's would be fine if the people buying them actually liked keeping their lawn/yards neat and tidy. Letting their laws get 6+ inches growth during the damp season? Not much in the brain department there. Probably a good thing they're not playing with gas mowers though.

 

[Alexx1401]

Every time this comes up it has me looking at them again and they are tempting. The part of the place I have to take care of is not very large so it would probably work here. The cost of one comparable to a decent gas is still about twice as much. Especially by the time you buy extra chargers which even the good reviews say you really need. MANY years ago I bought one of the corded Green Works string trimmers. It did impress hell out of me. It's as powerful as the gas one and no damn mixed gas. Just use a portable genset I can carry around. When the latest mower finally dies I may just try one of the electric jobs. I think CA has banned the gas stuff now so that should get the market cranking out some better and cheaper ones.

 

[Ura-Ki]

My Atlas (Harbor Freight ) battery mower is still kicking arse, did the last mow of the season and put the lawn into winter mode. One battery will handle about 1 1/2 acres worth, two will do it 6 inches wet! It stands the grass well and the blade design seems to generate plenty of lift for bagging. I have had this an entire season now, and zero complaints, the self propelled feature works perfectly, has plenty of power, and the speed control is nice and fine, perfect for fine tuning the mower to your working speed. After trying out several brands, the Atlas seems to out perform the rest, which was a surprise! Ego sucked, sthil didn't cut worth a damn and the batteries didn't last, Makita did a little better, but required more batteries, and a better blade, Yard Boss worked pretty good, but the cost was three times more then the Atlas, so. I would say I did pretty good, total cost for the mower, batteries, charger, HD String Trimmer and Leif Blower was just about dead even with a new Honda Self Propelled with Electric Start! If this lasts more then 4 seasons, I will be dead even with any gas mower out there! Even battery charge times are reasonable, from dead to full I just over an hour each!;

 

[Alexx1401]

My Atlas (Harbor Freight ) battery mower is still kicking arse, did the last mow of the season and put the lawn into winter mode. One battery will handle about 1 1/2 acres worth, two will do it 6 inches wet! It stands the grass well and the blade design seems to generate plenty of lift for bagging. I have had this an entire season now, and zero complaints, the self propelled feature works perfectly, has plenty of power, and the speed control is nice and fine, perfect for fine tuning the mower to your working speed. After trying out several brands, the Atlas seems to out perform the rest, which was a surprise! Ego sucked, sthil didn't cut worth a damn and the batteries didn't last, Makita did a little better, but required more batteries, and a better blade, Yard Boss worked pretty good, but the cost was three times more then the Atlas, so. I would say I did pretty good, total cost for the mower, batteries, charger, HD String Trimmer and Leif Blower was just about dead even with a new Honda Self Propelled with Electric Start! If this lasts more then 4 seasons, I will be dead even with any gas mower out there! Even battery charge times are reasonable, from dead to full I just over an hour each!;

Well damn! I did not even know HF had these. I just spent a little time looking at this and watched a couple video's and I am pretty sure I will have one of these this spring.
$270 mower, $140 each battery, $80 charger so after governors cut will be $540 out the door ready to go. I watched a couple video's and it left me impressed enough to buy one for around here. Assuming it does work as well as expected will be buying one of the string trimmers and probably the hedge trimmer. Little bit of cash up front but I like the no damn gas. Thanks for posting this.

 

[Member 53867]

I don't need any new fangled battery-operated mower.

Give me a good old wind-up mower, any time.

 

[Bacchus]

Well!!! Battery operated mower!!! Sounds good until the batteries blow up!! And your neighbor lets you know that your yard and mower is on fire!!!!

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I have been telling myself that my next mower will be a battery powered robot mower. And I have no fear of the neighbors telling me the yard is on fire because I plan to be out in a lawn chair with a margarita in hand, watching the mower, and waving to the neighbors as they drive by.

 

[Mikej]

My Atlas (Harbor Freight ) battery mower is still kicking arse, did the last mow of the season and put the lawn into winter mode. One battery will handle about 1 1/2 acres worth, two will do it 6 inches wet! It stands the grass well and the blade design seems to generate plenty of lift for bagging. I have had this an entire season now, and zero complaints, the self propelled feature works perfectly, has plenty of power, and the speed control is nice and fine, perfect for fine tuning the mower to your working speed. After trying out several brands, the Atlas seems to out perform the rest, which was a surprise! Ego sucked, sthil didn't cut worth a damn and the batteries didn't last, Makita did a little better, but required more batteries, and a better blade, Yard Boss worked pretty good, but the cost was three times more then the Atlas, so. I would say I did pretty good, total cost for the mower, batteries, charger, HD String Trimmer and Leif Blower was just about dead even with a new Honda Self Propelled with Electric Start! If this lasts more then 4 seasons, I will be dead even with any gas mower out there! Even battery charge times are reasonable, from dead to full I just over an hour each!;

Holy Cow Man! You work for "Consumer Affairs" or something?

Well damn! I did not even know HF had these. I just spent a little time looking at this and watched a couple video's and I am pretty sure I will have one of these this spring.
$270 mower, $140 each battery, $80 charger so after governors cut will be $540 out the door ready to go. I watched a couple video's and it left me impressed enough to buy one for around here. Assuming it does work as well as expected will be buying one of the string trimmers and probably the hedge trimmer. Little bit of cash up front but I like the no damn gas. Thanks for posting this.

$540.00 for everything huh? My gasser 2-STROKE cost me $850.00! ..... In 1999! TORO Commercial. I imagine it has several thousand hours/mowing's on it. I expect it to last the rest of my life. If not, I still have the first one I bought 11 years before that one.

 

[Tony617]

I have been telling myself that my next mower will be a battery powered robot mower. And I have no fear of the neighbors telling me the yard is on fire because I plan to be out in a lawn chair with a margarita in hand, watching the mower, and waving to the neighbors as they drive by.

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[Nosferatu]

When we landscape the MT property, there will be no lawn. A patch of fake stuff for the dog area and that's it.

 

[Alexx1401]

Holy Cow Man! You work for "Consumer Affairs" or something?

$540.00 for everything huh? My gasser 2-STROKE cost me $850.00! ..... In 1999! TORO Commercial. I imagine it has several thousand hours/mowing's on it. I expect it to last the rest of my life. If not, I still have the first one I bought 11 years before that one.

Those commercial ones are made to take a beating of course. I seem to normally get about 5 years out of each one we have bought. Always when one dies I just would look at the big box stores and buy whichever one was on sale. The one I have now is a few years old but I so hate dealing with the damn gas that I am pretty sure that I will be watching HF from now till growing season starts. If they put one of those battery jobs on sale I will grab it up. Can pass on the gas one we have to the crew here. They have commercial riding stuff but now and then need a small push job for some small job.

 

[Joe13]

Those commercial ones are made to take a beating of course. I seem to normally get about 5 years out of each one we have bought. Always when one dies I just would look at the big box stores and buy whichever one was on sale. The one I have now is a few years old but I so hate dealing with the damn gas that I am pretty sure that I will be watching HF from now till growing season starts. If they put one of those battery jobs on sale I will grab it up. Can pass on the gas one we have to the crew here. They have commercial riding stuff but now and then need a small push job for some small job.

Like I've said I bought the Ryobi battery powered one because I have a lot of batteries for that platform but it will not mow wet grass so I may pick up a used corded electric mower down the road when it is time because I used one for probably 15 years before my daughter was in mowing duty and I did not explain the nuances of backing up when it started to bog down on 18" grass and she just kept going until the motor burnt out. I probably could've got more years out of it and other then learning how to manage the cord and work away from the plug it always did well for me.

I also hate dealing with small engine maintenance and repair. If I lived in the sticks and had multiple things that all needed gas or gas mix then that's much more reasonable but I don't need a commercial anything for my property in the burbs….

 

[Alexx1401]

Like I've said I bought the Ryobi battery powered one because I have a lot of batteries for that platform but it will not mow wet grass so I may pick up a used corded electric mower down the road when it is time because I used one for probably 15 years before my daughter was in mowing duty and I did not explain the nuances of backing up when it started to bog down on 18" grass and she just kept going until the motor burnt out. I probably could've got more years out of it and other then learning how to manage the cord and work away from the plug it always did well for me.

I also hate dealing with small engine maintenance and repair. If I lived in the sticks and had multiple things that all needed gas or gas mix then that's much more reasonable but I don't need a commercial anything for my property in the burbs….

I quite bothering to have them worked on a few decades back. When I met the Wife she had an old Sears mower. It was nice in its day. It had quit and her Dad had taken it to a shop who got if fixed up. Then it promptly died again. Repair bill was about half what a new one cost so I told her no, and off to store I went. Its why every time I got 5 years out of one the next time it died it was trashed. The one summer I was cutting the front, thing dies. I went to one of the stores and bought a new. Put a sign on the old one saying FREE. Went and mowed the back, by the time I was done and bringing the grass out front for pick up the old one was gone. Back then they had started charging you to take one to the dump so worked great for me. Every time after than when one died it went out front with a for FREE sign. Someone always grabbed it up for me.
That one Ura-Ki mentioned uses two 40 volt batteries. Some video shows it chomping through some grass that was allowed to go a good while. I am getting old, I just want easy any more.

 

[Ura-Ki]

I quite bothering to have them worked on a few decades back. When I met the Wife she had an old Sears mower. It was nice in its day. It had quit and her Dad had taken it to a shop who got if fixed up. Then it promptly died again. Repair bill was about half what a new one cost so I told her no, and off to store I went. Its why every time I got 5 years out of one the next time it died it was trashed. The one summer I was cutting the front, thing dies. I went to one of the stores and bought a new. Put a sign on the old one saying FREE. Went and mowed the back, by the time I was done and bringing the grass out front for pick up the old one was gone. Back then they had started charging you to take one to the dump so worked great for me. Every time after than when one died it went out front with a for FREE sign. Someone always grabbed it up for me.
That one Ura-Ki mentioned uses two 40 volt batteries. Some video shows it chomping through some grass that was allowed to go a good while. I am getting old, I just want easy any more.

HA, the Atlas mower I got takes one or two 80v Batteries! Its pretty slick, it has a torque sensor of some sort, it cuts on low power until it senses a load, then ramps up the power and RPM's and really chomps on the grass! Bonus is the other yard tools take the same batteries, so no need to keep anything odd around for just one tool!
It's a bit confusing if you don't know there are two ranges of tools, the basic range is the 40v and the high range are the 80v, and there are all sorts of tools that will run off these batteries!

 

[Alexx1401]

HA, the Atlas mower I got takes one or two 80v Batteries! Its pretty slick, it has a torque sensor of some sort, it cuts on low power until it senses a load, then ramps up the power and RPM's and really chomps on the grass! Bonus is the other yard tools take the same batteries, so no need to keep anything odd around for just one tool!
It's a bit confusing if you don't know there are two ranges of tools, the basic range is the 40v and the high range are the 80v, and there are all sorts of tools that will run off these batteries!

That's what I meant to write, 80 volt. That is why the batteries are a little pricey but it is also why the damn thing will chew through some fairly tall grass. The reviews are showing it can run on just one battery but it of course does better with two. So I will just bite the bullet and buy 2 batteries with it. The same battery runs a string trimmer they make that I have no doubt will be a purchase also. Have a hundred feet or so of hedge I have to maintain too. Bought a cheap electric clipper for that. Has worked fine but if it dies I will buy the one that also uses these same batteries. I have not been to HF in so long I no longer get the flyer's. I will be checking in weekly though and grab this stuff when it hits a sale.

 

[kmk1012]

Jeebus! Everyone talking like gas powered small engines are so problematic. If people would do simple things, basically only using real non ethanol gasoline they will go on and on. I gave away my 17 year old Toro lawnmower to a coworker five years ago when we moved and got a zero turn mower. At 22 years old, still all original including the oil, true!!!, it still gets used every weekend. I like battery drills but will take my corded one when I really have to work. Battery stuff is real convenient but not what it needs to be for medium to large sized jobs.