I would like a pnewmatic plunge saw overhead pruner. The heavy motor would stay on the ground and a light air hose would go up. The double sided blade would buzz into the wood. Just take a small wedge from the bottom then cut down from the top. Don't look for it, these do not exist.
Hydraulic is available; most loggers/arborists have a machine handy they can plug into.
I have concern about teenagers of either gender driving autos with their friends along. Too easily distracted. We had an incident in Bellingham a few years ago where a girl driving her friends around rear-ended another car which had stopped at a crosswalk and killed a toddler in the crosswalk. Too much excitement driving with friends in the car. Ruined more than one life that day.
I'm with you. I have switched every yard tool possible (with exception of small roto tiller) to battery power. Quieter, and no cranky hard starting engine, no fuel to buy, no carburetor gumming up, no blue smoke. I've had a belly full of two-strokes.
My sister as a passenger died in such a situation
theres a restriction in VA,
I've started seeing this PSA on TV lately.
I have a Ryobi 40 volt mower, and it is amply powerful for mowing my admittedly small lawn. I also have extra 40 volt batteries that I keep charged up. In fact, the mower itself has a special slot to stow the extra battery so it's with you always. This is not a self-propelled mower, so it doesn't matter whether I'm mowing downhill or with a tailwind.I've been debating on whether or not to buy an electric lawn mover, but I'm worried that it will be a gutless piece of crap.
I've already got Ryobi tools that use the same batteries.
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Yeah right.
Just like my ebike gets "Up to" 100 miles per charge.
I've got 2.0 AH batteries, and my grinder will kill a battery in 5 minutes.
I'm sure the Ryobi mower will cut ¼ acre of the grass if was already cut, you had a Really strong tailwind, and you only cut downhill.
I've have an Atlas 80v mower now on my 4th year and I easily cut thick zoysia grass for over an hour with two 2.5ah batreries that can be loaded into the mower at once. They use Samsung cells and haven't noticed any decline in performance.I've been debating on whether or not to buy an electric lawn mover, but I'm worried that it will be a gutless piece of crap.
I've already got Ryobi tools that use the same batteries.
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Yeah right.
Just like my ebike gets "Up to" 100 miles per charge.
I've got 2.0 AH batteries, and my grinder will kill a battery in 5 minutes.
I'm sure the Ryobi mower will cut ¼ acre of the grass if was already cut, you had a Really strong tailwind, and you only cut downhill.
!!I took the loss with Ryobi and moved on. I still have about 5 tools collecting dust.What I like about the 18 volt mower is that it comes with two 4ah batteries that will fit the tools I already have,..
A drill, cut-off saw, circular saw, grinder, light, and weed eater (the weed eater works OK but it's kinda gutless and slow).
Maybe I could just think of it as buying a couple batteries for $420 that comes with a free mower.
If the mower turns out to be a useless terd,..
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Then I can just keep using my old gas burner.
Maybe I can pimp out the mower with my 48v 25ah Reention battery?
That would be
20 amps at 54.6 volts aughta get that mower going !!
Or it will blow up?
I'd be fine with either outcome.
Speaking of the good old days, when I was a kid we could ride standing up on the front seat. Everybody looked with great suspicion on the first seat belts that came out. Of course they were optional. I don't remember anyone of my acquaintance ever having a serious accident.
have a whole set of ryobi tools and they do everything i ask of them if its extremly tough i just plug in the bosch or the table saw,got a 40 volt convertable string trimmer and i will never go back to that 2 cycle junk.travelling contractors told me due everything getting legs and walking away they buy a lot of the weekend warrior things,like(ugh) firestorm lower priced ryobl and things like that,ryobi is basically the same as about 4 other brands now i am told,if i were a contractor ,would go with "red fuel" probably over the overated dewalt stuff. have driven pounds and pounds of screws with ryobi cordless drills and inflated numerous tires with the ryobi inflator,there is an outlet in tenn. where i used to buy refurbed ryobi cordless tools( when it used to be prudent to do so,now its probably better to just buy new) used to love home depot because of their return policy,now they are on my short list along with lowes particulaily because of their affliation with synchrony bank( stay away)
