Just bought my first house, and naturally am in need of lawn equipment.

Home Depot is having a great sale on the battery powered Ryobi gear. Has anyone used this stuff? Or should I stick to a standard 2 cycle mower?

I have heard great things about the ego line of battery powered lawn equipment from Home Depot.

I personally own the Kobalt 80v line from Lowe's. Have the mower, weed eater, and blower and 2 batteries to charge and swap between them. Fantastic performance, highly recommended, and no way I will ever be going back to gas.

I have an EGO blower and weed eater. They are fantastic.

I don't think an electric mower will cut my lawn good enough though. It's pretty thick.

In my experience, electric stuff sucks.

el gato18 said:

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Just bought my first house, and naturally am in need of lawn equipment.

Home Depot is having a great sale on the battery powered Ryobi gear. Has anyone used this stuff? Or should I stick to a standard 2 cycle mower?

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I've got an electric Kobalt mower, weed eater, 2 batteries and charger that I'll give you a great deal on. Bought them but then ended up hiring a lawn guy to save time.

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In my experience, electric stuff sucks.

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I thought the same thing....until I was given a new EGO blower. Much Much stronger than my gas one. Then I tried the weed eater...it's just as good as any weed eater I've ever had. I edge and trim with it without issue.

I have the Greenworks 40v brushless equipment. Lawn mower blower weed eater edger chainsaw and pole saw.

I have been very pleased.

Depends on how big of a place you got, but electric seems to be the future.

I took a chance on the Ryobi mower since I have some other Ryobi tools and like them.

Note: the mower uses 40V batteries and the hand tools use different (18V) batteries. -Edited to correct this

Ryobi has a push mower and a more expensive, heavier, propelled mower. I got the cheaper one.

It comes with a charger and one battery. The mower has a place on top of the body for the battery to snap in, and a second slot for you to carry around a spare battery if you wish.

Also note, the Ryobi batteries are available with differing storage capacities (Amp hours). I did not know this and bought a second battery with smaller Amp hours. It is less expensive and does not run as long. I might pick up a bigger one during this sale.

The mower comes with a bag to catch clippings, and a "mulch plug" that you insert if you are not using the bag. If you haul the new mower to your family member's house to mow their lawn and forget to bring the plug, you can rig (against warnings of course) it to exhaust the clippings without the plug. But don't do that, you'll probably die if you do.

If mulching, the clippings do not exhaust to the side, they stay in the path you are cutting and this seemed to make the yard a bit tidier.

I was skeptical about the cutting power, especially since I was helping out someone with a yard with high grass and weeds, but the mower did better than I expected it to. It even shredded an aluminum can that I ran over because I did not see it. The cutting height is adjustable.

The batteries have a button you can press to see how much charge you have left. I have not had the mower long enough to get timings on how long it will run. There is not an appreciable warning that the battery is about to run out. It just stops after maybe 15-20 minutes or so.

The wheels are plastic. The body has two handles that make the mower easy to lift. I believe when I was putting it together it looked like you could fold the handle down to make it easier to transport somewhere.

It's not as loud as a traditional mower. It does have a light on the front. It cuts while it moves forward and also if you pull it backward in case that is important to you.

I think the cutting deck was something like 20", so it's a small mower, but for a small yard, I thought it did a good job.

Been very happy with my Ego stuff. J have the weed eater, hedge trimmer and blower. One charge gets through weed eating and blowing, no problem. And they have a 5 year warranty on the batteries.

Good info. I'm about to replace my blower with battery and want to follow up as needed the rest so I want one manufacturer

Honda mower, Poulan blower, Shindaiwa Commercial string
trimmer (25 years old). All gas.

Told myself that I wouldn't buy anything electric. Well, last year I was in the market for a power pole saw. Researched and bought the Harbor Freight electric.

It's awesome, especially for the price point. One battery charge will outlast my desire to work.

Definitely depends on the size and scope of your yard. I cant imagine using battery powered equipment for my yard with the exception of a blower, maybe.

Have gas everything except chainsaw since my old one was never reliable.

I probably wouldn't suggest taking out a mature tree, but it starts right up and is quiet and powerful enough to do the trimming on the couple dozen trees on my property.

Ego carbon fiber weed eater here - wont go back to gas ever again. Lighter, significantly less vibration, power loading head is genius, with 2 batteries i weed eat and edge my 2 acres, fence, driveway, house, etc with plenty of battery left over.

I second Bluemiles.

I have a Ryobi lawnmower and it's great as long as you don't have a huge yard. The area I now is 30 yards by 15y and it takes most of a battery to mow it.

We are on a 1.2 acre lot with an extended driveway and a concrete drainage culvert that runs the length of the lot, so quite a lot of edging to do. I've owned all types of string trimmers over the years, but the 60v Greenworks trimmer I have been using the past two years is by far the best trimmer I have ever owned. One battery isn't enough to do all the edging at one time, but I purchased it when it came with a free extra battery. The two batteries are more than enough to do the entire job. I definitely won't be going back to a gas trimmer ever again.

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After my 2 year old Echo blower died, I bought a Greenworks blower.

It's not as powerful as the gas blower, but it's more than enough to do the job and it works.

The blower battery also works with the pole saw I have.

SanAntoneAg said:

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Honda mower, Poulan blower, Shindaiwa Commercial string
trimmer (25 years old). All gas.

Told myself that I wouldn't buy anything electric. Well, last year I was in the market for a power pole saw. Researched and bought the Harbor Freight electric.

It's awesome, especially for the price point. One battery charge will outlast my desire to work.

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Same here. I thought at my age I'd never see anything electric, other than hand drills which we have many and are great over the years, in outdoor equipment that was worthwhile. Two years ago bought a BD battery electric pole saw for some work on the ranch thinking I'd use it once or twice for a very specific job. That thing powers through some decent thickness oak and has great battery life. Now I use it all the time. Am impressed how fast these products have advanced.

My dad has the Ryobi blower, chainsaw, and pole saw. All have the 40 V lithium. Works well so far. Also, if your battery goes out within a year, they will send you a new one free of charge.

schmellba99 said:

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Ego carbon fiver weed eater here - wont go back to gas ever again. Lighter, significantly less vibration, power loading head is genius, with 2 batteries i weed eat and edge my 2 acres, fence, driveway, house, etc with plenty of battery left over.

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Based on the opinion of folks who've made the switch, I'll probably go electric when my gas equipment craps out.

2 cycle non ethanol gas powered equipment is a pita.

Im i the only one that grew up watching Home Improvement?

I love our Kobalt mower and trimmer. Plenty of power, I can do both front and back yards twice without recharging, and they are pretty much maintenance free. Another bonus is that the mower is so quiet that I can mow early without disturbing my neighbors or waking up my family.

My gas leaf blower was stolen, so it will be my first jump into battery power.

Any of these tools share battery packs across to power drills/other tools ? Would be nice to have one battery type for all.

Ego carbon fiver weed eater-which one do y'all have
I'm looking to get one I'm done with my gas echo

Damn.. I'm pretty surprised everyone likes the electric lawn equipment... I would have bet big money that no one on this board would like electric equipment.

Maybe I'll have to get rid of the 25 year old lawn boy.

With similar performance, do you want to use one that works every time or one that you may have to fight with to get it working?

I've been using ethanol free gas for a couple of years and that has all but eliminated starting problems but eventually I'll need to replace.

I have gone all in with Ego.

Self propelled mower. String trimmer and edge combo. And the backpack blower. They are all excellent. And I like just flipping a switch to get them going. They're so much quieter than gas too which is an underrated benefit IMO.

Gas mower but weed eater and blower are electric. Weed eater starts immediately and I get the auto feed trimmer line. If I didn't I'd spend more time getting set up than cutting.

Seems like electric is great for city work and maintaining what you have. Not great if you need to clear big thick swaths of land.

Always have a backup battery.

How well would these electric trimmers work for ranch use? I can see how they would work my house in the city, just curious what kind of use I would get trimming around blinds and feeders.

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just curious what kind of use I would get trimming around blinds and feeders.

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The best trimmer for around feeders and blinds is a atv mounted spray tank of Eraser.

I went all EGO last year and haven't looked back. Highly, highly recommend for all platforms.

If you're going EGO, I'd make sure to get the 2.5Ah, 5Ah, or 7.5Ah packs. They use far better cells than the 2.0's and 4's.

I have 18v blower and weed whacker/edge trimmer combo, and a 40v 16in chainsaw. All three are prefect for what I need. Used the chainsaw to section up a 30ft tree that came down for firewood, took two batteries - for my irregular use electric was a better choice than gas and has just about as much power.