so anon how was your first mow?
what's that?
>bad gas
>plugged carb jets
>forgot to change oil last fall
>pull cord broke trying to get it started
that sucks, my RYOBI® 40-Volt HP Brushless 21 in. Whisper Series Cordless Walk-Behind Dual Blade Push Mower started up with no issues
>he still hasn't made the switch
I have a 3.2 acre lot, an electric won't mow it all :/
So I use der traktor
That’s a chair you fricking moron.
It's the only picture I have that includes der traktor. That's the new chair I bought to sit at my work bench tho
Can't wait until those gas hogging machines are outlawed too
They're both diesel
Why? You want to starve to death? You want to make mining for battery materials like the worst of coal mining? People like you should be castrated
Good job listing all of the short term problems and ignoring the long term problems, but frick the next generation amir?
You think chinesium batteries are going to make or break the next generation?
>food production meeting demand
>environmental impact of mining in/by countries that do not GAF about it
>"short term problems"
and like the creators of picrel you wonder why people laugh at you as the unserious fool you are
>electricity comes from magic and can be produced infinitely with no limitations
Sometimes I envy people like you. Life must be so easy and stress-free when you have no idea how dumb you are.
>what is solar
>what is wind
>what is tide
>what is even nuclear power
but let's keep burning fossil fuels because frick the planet and frick future generations
>gasoline comes from magic and can be produced infinitely with no limitations
I'd buy you a beer.
>Let's destroy our only reliable infrastructure for generating power without a practical alternative
They really are that dumb.
My mower uses like 1L of fuel every 3-4 months at most. In the dry season it goes like 6 months.
I do have an electric mower, only because I have frick all for grass. However instead of buying some so|lent green transformer with a battery fire waiting to happen chemistry, I picked up a 24V Seal Lead Acid powered black and decker POS. Whole things is dumb as a box of rocks, not a single circuit board in it. It has a charger, if that fails I can just drill a hole in the cover for a standard sae plug and charge the batteries that way. Further when these batteries do crap out, it's at worse $80 for new ones since they are the same 18AH used in wheelchairs. Pic appears to be the same model as mine. It's ten years old and hasn't give any trouble with the only maintenance required being sharpening the blade.
You can rig these to run all day on ebike batteries
I could however the battery capacity is more than enough for my tiny lawn and I would prefer to not have a fire waiting to happen chemistry in my shed.
Buy from Lunacycle. It's a white guy, he buys chinese battery enclosures so they will fit common ebikes, but he hand-assembles the cell clusters used inside from Japanese and Korean 18650s.
That's cool however it wouldn't do me any good considering the batteries in my mower now work perfectly for the amount of grass I have.
gas was from last year
mower was from 2 decades ago
started first pull
have to keep pushing the primer to feed it gas until it gets going
ran just fine
Never changed the oil
I have an ancient tecumseh mower that I have done absolutely zero (0) maintenance on its engine in the past 10 years I owned it. I got it from my dad who had it for the prior 15 years. It fires up fine every year.
>safety lever broke a while ago, now ziptie the lever shut at the engine and cut it when I'm done
>pullcord is fricked, have to feed a knot in it through a hole in the cover to let it rewind between pulls
>broke the push handle at the pivot point, slapped it back together with a shitty stick welder made from microwave transformers and some scrap steel
Based
Fix your mower and be a man. Your neighbours probably think you are just some poor trailer trash hick that inherited a house from a hard working relative.
have a 30yo tecumseh motor that fires up every year on old gas with the first pull.
the deck is a 60 yo toro and is so bulletproof nothing has broken jet.
>dual blade
>on that grass
What is the point?
The blades are vertically stacked; it cuts the grass better and prevents clumping of grass clippings if you aren't bagging. It's not purely a ryobi thing.
I get what you're thinking (and are likely trolling) but there are a lot of use cases where liquid fules are simply the right answer. Situations where you just need a crapload of work (in the scientific definition) done and you need to do it where you don't have consistent electric infrastructure. Trucks that haul huge loads and tractors are perfect use cases for petroleum fules. If we managed to remove the pollution from all commuter cars, short haul trucks, and delivery vans we would solve the cars part of the climate crisis. We can safely ignore the 18 wheeler moving the DC 10 dozer even if it's getting 2 mpg. There are just so few of them it's pointless to try and fix that.
That being said, using a tractor to mow a lawn is idiotic, unless you mean to drag a brush cutter through twice a year.
If you onions cucks really hate gas mowers so much just do what those redditors to and just make it all mulch and virtue signal about how for the environment you are.
WHIRRRRRRRRRR
WHIRRRRRRRRRR
Based and push pilled. Honestly if you have fricking acres of grass you're doing your yard wrong. Plant some trees/bushes/flowers, anything but worthless fricking grass.
Post brand of mustache wax you use
how to show everyone on the block that you're either retired and poor or straight up on welfare
Is this actually work? I would try it but not really common here.
A new one is fine. Even a 40 year old one is not that bad. But our yard is small so it 30 minutes
reckon it would take me near 3 hours to do ours with one of them lol
are you from england?
Ive got a big one i pull with an atv for picking up all the grass in my orchard after a mow and it works quite nicely
>using poisoned gas
>oil change is in the spring if it needs it
>electric start is the only electric I need
It went well, I rode around and drank beer all day.
Hope you enjoy your transformers toy before the blood battery's die. Funny how environmentalists brag about the environmentally damaging electric junk they bough to further frick the environment by growing a lawn.
It's easier to think you're the good guy when you don't know about the 12 year old who climbs down a 1000 foot shaft that's barely bigger than he is, to chip cobalt off the walls and fill a small burlap sack, and climb back out, 10x a day.
I hate the arguments who use child labor as their defense. If the kids aren't mining cobalt or coal, they're digging through e-waste to get the scrap metal. If they aren't digging through e-waste, they're working the opium fields. Or they are sewing together your shoes, or shirts. Or it's the kids that climb the coconut trees to make your coconut butter.
It's not the fricking job that's the issue, it's the country that's allowing it to take place, or the parents that are so poor that they couldn't afford a condom let alone raise a kid so the kid doesn't have to work to eat. It's not the system or the companies that take up the cheap source, it's the shitty people on the other end that don't try to change it. You really think that if we halt all operations that deal with child labor, all of a sudden those kids are going to go to school and get an education? No, they will just be forced to do the next shitty job that someone can underbid and sell to a 1st world country.
>pull cord has been broken, cover is removed and cord is wound manually each time
>basically the only safety feature, prevents starting by children and sois
>took a shot of starter fluid to wake from hibernation, fires promptly now
>got the grass done, headed straight to the brush, vines, and saplings, doing wheelies to swallow them whole
>spits the shredded remains all over my ankles at high velocities
My mower would eat that toy
I do no mow may
My neighbor has an electric mower and I have a beat to hell ride on. He mows his grass for like 40 minutes after im already done. They are getting better but still bog down easily unless you cut very often.
I'm guessing your neighbor has an 18v. The 18v versions are garbage. The 40v I have is able to mulch and bag leaves with no issue, battery doesn't last as long as when I just mow though.
Its a 40v. We just have big lots.
>>bad gas
carb jets
to change oil last fall
>>pull cord broke trying to get it started
ive never had any of these problems with a proper mower that's a chinese honda clone with a real design.
it's only idiots who buy flathead pigs & gaygon mowers who experience these stupid problems because the engines are temperamental plastic crap
>>wtf
>>Why are there two?
>use one
Lurk moar.
>batteries too small to mow the entire lawn in one go
>anemic performance, works poorly on long grass
On the plus side I no longer need to wear hearing protection while mowing and it is nice and light. Nice if you have a small lawn and mow it frequently, otherwise you might be better off with gasoline.
>5 year old Toro
>never changed the oil
>leftover gas in the tank from last year
>started on first pull
All I have to do is pull the blade and sharpen it when I have some time, no clue if it needs it, it just makes me feel manly and I have to use that table vice I installed for something. I should probably change the oil but haven’t noticed any issues.
>haven't noticed any issues
you really won't until it's too late and your cylinders are destroyed
Why are there so many cali posters on this board when most of them have never seen grass
Ad, shill, dilate, kill
>bad gas
>plugged carb jets
Just empty out the the fuel tank of the mower before you store it for winter and you will never have these problems. The two biggest problems I have is a clogged air filter and a damaged lawn mower blade and both of those come from family that doesn't pay attention to things
>how was your first mow?
Longer than 15min.
GUYS ITS ON SALE!!!
Is that 7 batteries?!
i despise electric mowers for taking away the quintesential comfy australian suburban smell of cut buffalo grass and 2 stroke exhaust
I mow an entire acre with a push mower. I can't use electric. Actually going to mow soon once dawn breaks. The self-propel feature is fricked up and I haven't felt like fricking with it, sadly.
I have finished mowing. It only took a little under three hours. Now to not mow again for another three to four weeks until I have to lest I have to lift the mower every few feet so it spits the grass out of the blade chamber to prevent clogs. I need to plant clover or something under this tree and those patchy spots due to it getting so much shade.
3 hours? jesus frick dude, why would you not get a riding mower? what a waste of time
Dude that's to much grass. At that point get a sheep or something to do it for you.
Electric fencing isn't that expensive.
I also do an acre with a push mower
It doesnt take an hour wtf are you doing
see
no excuses
>>he still hasn't made the switch
I switched to this.
Isn't any harder to push than a gas mower. Assuming you set the cut height correctly.
Almost nothing beats the smell of a 2 stroke mower running on avgas and castor 2 stroke oil
>my GREENHORN
>40-Volt HP( 1 horsepower has 745.7 volts ampere)
>Brushless(wow like all of them)
>21 in. (LOL)
Buy an ad, homosexual.
I pay a guy
Is this a mower thread? I'm having trouble with my mower running rough. It starts and runs for a bit, but when it warms up it starts running rough and then dies. It won't start again until it's cold to the touch. I've replaced the fuel line from the tank and cleaned the carb out the best I could.
I had one of these but got sick of swapping batteries. Returned it, bought a corded model. It's a hassle managing the extension cord but the yard's not that big and it beats buying replacement batteries or swapping them out as they run down
I have a Gardena battery power cylinder mower. (pic related)
Works good for my lawn.
Also have the not powered 400c model that I use less often.
>tfw my dad still uses a scythe to mow the lawn
I recently moved, and the previous owners had most of the yard space used for patio, garden beds, raised beds, and trees/bushes, leaving me with a very small lawn (I'm not complaining, they did quite a lot with limited space). I've just been using one of these and pulling the perimeter out by hand. It works much better than I originally thought it would, as long as I mow once a week (it kind of sucks for tall grass, but it still works)
I probably wouldn't recommend it if you have a large lawn though, but I feel kind of bad for completely writing them off for most of my life (the one I'm using now was just left in the garage by the previous owners)
They're great for long narrow lawns or any other lawn shape that makes constantly reorienting a gas mower too annoying to bother with. They're just as easy to push as gas mowers that aren't self-propelled, provided you have the cut height adjusted to 3/4" or taller.
But yes they have a very limited effective cut height so you can't let the grass grow too high. And twigs will generally stop them dead.
>oil change in fall
This is why your good mower died. Time to read the manual and stop being a woman.
Elephant grass in my yard would destroy that McDonald's mower within a week
Rescued this badboy from the dump
Cleaned the oily plug and she runs fine
Be less gay
>I drive a shitbox
>I dumpster dive
*shitbox chops you on the touge*
Heh.... nothing personnel, kid.
Good on you anon, more people should just fix what they have instead of being a mindless coomsomer.
opinion on automowers?
>goes flat
>can't deal with thick grass
Lmao.
Meanwhile my petrol mower starts first time every time and has enough power to cut down a rainforest.
Frick that. I have 5 acres
This. At a certain point, every type of walk mower is just a glorified edger.
if I had 5 acres I would get a robot mower.