Battery Mowers

shinytop

shinytop said:

Exiled_Tyke said:

arty688 said:

Although its a bit like cars it probably not so much the range that's important but how quickly they can recharge. Also how often you mow you lawn ? The football lawn I do most weeks but the rest I usually leave too long so is always a struggle to mow so would kill a cordless in no time probably.

For me range is very important. Like @shinytop I don't want to have to stop (at all!) mid way.  And while I could tolerate a 'short' break I really don't want to have to do two or possibly three shift while I wait (for any time at all) for the recharge.    

A good point on the long grass. I have bulbs in some of mine so some areas don't get mown at all until June.  Most cordless mowers as you say won't cope with that.

That's what I was thinking. My Honda petrol mower will cut through and suck up almost anything, all day long. I think it's similar to EVs; I could make a battery mower work but would it would cost more and require a lot of faffing around.  In another parallel with EVs, there are lots of nice, affordable 2nd hand petrol mowers but the 2nd hand battery ones around are the low power, low range ones that nobody wants.

Jury's still out for me I think.    

My old but normally reliable Honda mower just cut its final strip in my garden.  The grass box finally fell apart and the mechanism that adjusts the height on one of the wheels broke. I've been keeping it going for a few years with bodges and spares but enough is enough now.  

I just couldn't bring myself to pay £5-600 for a battery mower. I'd need to because of the size and the hillyness of my garden.  Instead I've gone for a modern Honda self propelled petrol model, which are on a special promotion from Honda atm and have a 5 year guarantee.  I'd like to have tried a BEV mower but I've had problems with other battery tools recently and I'm not sure the range of the current models would be quite enough.  At least it'll be a new, efficient engine that will probably last me as long as I'm able to cut grass!!

The old one still runs and I'll sell it cheap/give it away to someone who will keep it going.  

JKenH

shinytop said:

shinytop said:

Exiled_Tyke said:

arty688 said:

Although its a bit like cars it probably not so much the range that's important but how quickly they can recharge. Also how often you mow you lawn ? The football lawn I do most weeks but the rest I usually leave too long so is always a struggle to mow so would kill a cordless in no time probably.

For me range is very important. Like @shinytop I don't want to have to stop (at all!) mid way.  And while I could tolerate a 'short' break I really don't want to have to do two or possibly three shift while I wait (for any time at all) for the recharge.    

A good point on the long grass. I have bulbs in some of mine so some areas don't get mown at all until June.  Most cordless mowers as you say won't cope with that.

That's what I was thinking. My Honda petrol mower will cut through and suck up almost anything, all day long. I think it's similar to EVs; I could make a battery mower work but would it would cost more and require a lot of faffing around.  In another parallel with EVs, there are lots of nice, affordable 2nd hand petrol mowers but the 2nd hand battery ones around are the low power, low range ones that nobody wants.

Jury's still out for me I think.    

My old but normally reliable Honda mower just cut its final strip in my garden.  The grass box finally fell apart and the mechanism that adjusts the height on one of the wheels broke. I've been keeping it going for a few years with bodges and spares but enough is enough now.  

I just couldn't bring myself to pay £5-600 for a battery mower. I'd need to because of the size and the hillyness of my garden.  Instead I've gone for a modern Honda self propelled petrol model, which are on a special promotion from Honda atm and have a 5 year guarantee.  I'd like to have tried a BEV mower but I've had problems with other battery tools recently and I'm not sure the range of the current models would be quite enough.  At least it'll be a new, efficient engine that will probably last me as long as I'm able to cut grass!!

The old one still runs and I'll sell it cheap/give it away to someone who will keep it going.  

Don’t put E10 petrol in it, at least not at the end of the season because of the high ethanol content. I only use super unleaded in my mowers and Stihl MotoMix  in my chain saws. Stihl do Moto4Plus for 4 stroke engines.