Electric is cleaner, quieter, easier. No gas cans to fill up, no maintenance, cheaper operation. It's just a more pleasant experience.
No maintenance? You and I seem to be non commercial, I'm 7 years on my Toro, I have changed oil and did a fuel and air filter this year. Before that I did hydro fluid and filters and sharpened blades, you have to do that on electric too. Replacement batteries would cost way more than I put into my mower in 7 years. I am not adverse to all battery products, I have a hedge trimmer, but that is just because it was cheaper due to having DeWalt batteries already. I have always had great luck with gas products starting year after year.
Sure, you have to sharpen blades, but I don't think all electric mowers are using hydro transmissions. Don't think there's any oil to change. Are batteries greener? I would think so, but that never really factored into the decision for me. And even if a 7 hour battery lost 50% of it's capacity, it'd still me more than adequate for my purposes. But I'm not spending $20k+ on an electric mower, so it doesn't really matter, lol. Ryobi has what appears to be the best residential electric zero turn. With a 54" deck, a supposed 4 acre run time, and 8mph top speed. For just a little more than the price of that mower, I got a commercial grade gas mower with a 61" deck, 10mph top speed, and unlimited runtime. So for me, electric just isn't there yet, not for my use or budget anyway.
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You're more than welcome to stop by my house this evening and experience a solid 1.5-2hrs of my OCD neighbor doing his thing with his lawn equipment. He has much less lawn than I have and takes 2x longer.
The prices have gone up recently, and I've hardly ever paid MSRP for this stuff, so keep that in mind. You just need to keep your eyes open for the discounts. Home Depot is where I got most of it, usually when they have a buy this tool, get this battery/tool for free deal. Buying that deal discounts both products the same amount, then you just return what you don't need. Some are glitches, like the pole saw, my brother in law found it on the home Depot website for $25. He bought 8 and gave me a couple. The price was off the website within an hour. I sold one for $75 and kept the other, so I actually made $25 for getting the pole saw, lol. Depot also has an online 'deal of the day' section that sometimes has great deals. Lawn equipment is on there at least once every week or two. Right now there's a 'buy more save more' promo on some of the lawn stuff, so if you spend $550 they'll take off $175, which takes most things down about 30%. Acme and Max Tool run promos too. I think my hatchet with the batteries, impact driver, and hammer drill came from Max tool, that was a great discount.
How many acres of grass did you elevated to?
Stripes getting better with that zero turn!
There's about 3 acres of grass. Think I'm going to throw down a ton of clover in the fall.
Progress report on the clover take-over. Here is three weeks without mowing. The clover heads are in bloom and starting to self-seed the yard. Grasses are also producing seeds, which will self-seed as well.
Far from being 9 acres but I'm experiencing the same thing on my property, with clover taking over most of the front yard (the more exposed to the sun than the back). Is it normal to have a random purple flower among the vast majority of white ones? They appear to be clover, just a different color. Also, I've only mowed the grass twice so far and it's not as tall as usual. Fingers crossed.
