I've Gone Electric! (Lawn Mower)

I've had my Ego mower about 2¼ years, battery going super strong.

 

According to cpicalc, the 2006 Lawn Boy was $540 in June 2022 dollars. (Or, equivalently, the $400 Ego was $274 in June 2006 dollars.)

 

You may be pleasantly surprised at the EGO durability and battery life. We have a 5 year old Kobalt 80v mower that shows no sign of wear and its little 2.5 ah batteries still fine after 5 years of weekly grass cutting from April till October of every year.

Don't forget you will never buy gas, oil, air filter or spark plug again - so you will have these savings. After the initial purchase price of an electric mower that is pretty much all you will ever spend on it.

 

I bought a replacement blade for mine, after an unplanned mowing of my sidewalk.

 

i haven't mowed in months due to the drought, so i won't have much to report on the ryobi

 

front lawn, hasn't rained in months, temps in the high 90's for days, several times this summer



took out 2 massive 60+ year old norway maples due to decay. replanting 2 5-6" caliper october glory maples.
i won't live long enough to see any shade. facing south, a/c is definitely running more

 

Heck, I've been "electric", for forever...

 

"unplanned mowing of my sidewalk"

The nail that sticks out gets hammered down. Poor choice of hammer in this case though.

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Lawn @8 : you pee indoors apparently.

 

My EGO + original battery is still going strong after 5 1/2 years

 

Busted...

 

Batteries are convenient, but cords cost less without the issues that come with batteries.

 

Same here, except the 'forever' part. I started in 1990.

Not a very good planer either.

 

Wow that is an antique! You must have bought that off of Thomas edison.

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That's for when the electric leaf blower comes in handy, as the tons of leaves begin falling. The leaf blower works great as a snowblower too!
Congratulations on the new mower. Man they sure are getting expensive. We bought the last floor model for $411 last year. But this year - after trillions of paper dollars are added to the supply, that same electric mower is $650. Ouch!
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Dupe

 

I replaced all of my gas yard tools this summer. The mower is a champ even when I let my grass go for a month+.

I was intrigued by some Ego zero turns I saw on display at the hardware store mainly for the swappable batteries you can use in other tools. After some research I settled on the riding mower from Greenworks and their 60v tools from tractor supply. I was most impressed with the pole saw when it was doing better cutting up a fallen tree than my echo 14" gas saw. I picked up greenwork's 16" 60v chainsaw a week after.

I ended up donating all my old gas tools to the age old tradition of piling them up at the end of the driveway with a 'free' sign. Even included my can of oil mixed gas. It was picked up within an hour.