I think you are making a mistake with the corded. Really a pain in the ass to pull that cord around especially if you have trees or bushes in your yard.
We have this one for our second home and it’s great. Our yard, front, back, sides and boulevard is more than 5000 ft and I do it with battery to spare. The only time I use the bagging is if I want the mulched grass for compost. All other times it mulches into the lawn, sight unseen. IMHO, people who go with corded seem to be overly concerned that the battery does not have enough power to cut heavy or long grass, which I have found is not a problem.
Plus, it’s so quiet, it doesn’t scare my dog like the vacuum cleaner does.
ETA if I recall right, it comes mulcher ready, you have to add a part to get it into non mulching.
I’ll find out soon enough. I get this one delivered (for free) Thursday. Greenworks 12-Amp Deck Width Corded Electric Push Lawn Mower with Mulching Capability.
With a vet’s discount, only $171.77 with tax. I managed to get it on sale on top of everything else and the review are excellent.
So I got the mower yesterday. It took maybe 10 minutes to assemble.
I used it today to pick up a few bags of leaves and it worked great.
No issues with the 100’ 12 gauge cord. Now wrapped around the mower handle. Pretty easy.
With 100’ of 12ga cord, may I suggest – if you don’t already do this – you consider being an early adopter of this method of coiling and storing the cord ?
It’s awkward … like twice, but then it’s really natural and the results for me have been exceptional.
I think you made the right choice (I have the same one). I gladly trade dealing with the cord versus having to make sure my batteries are charged and replacing them in a few year.
Someone posted above about learning the “dance” and always working away from the outlet, which is good advice. You’ll quickly find the right patterns for mowing around obstacles (although it sounds like yours are minimal), and it really isn’t that difficult after a few times. I have 5 trees to mow around and I manage just fine.
That method looks good, I used to use something like that back when I worked in Safety Shop on the carrier in the Navy. We had to inspect between each use all the cords for the ship. So as we had to recoil all of the cords, we used a method at least close to that.
The current cord wrapped very quick around the handle of the mower though and that is my storage plan. It works very well.
Though charge cycles is an industry standard, that came from NiCd and later Nimh batteries where charge cycles was a good indicator of life. Though it is not a good indicator of Li-ion as time/temp and high/low cut off point play more to battery life then cycles. Just sitting there Li-ion does eat itself away.
The normal tradeoff would be for longer life to limit capacity (artificial 100 and 0 levels). The more it is limited the longer the life can be. Though the less capacity the battery has. So manufactures from electric cars to phones and everywhere in-between can play the same game, how much life do we want in years out of the battery, then place the limits accordingly. For phones perhaps 2-3 years is ideal, for lawnmowers perhaps 5-7 years.
Then we can back calculate cycle life based on the expected use rate.
Just to reiterate a lesson, with batteries don’t stall out your mower repeatedly, I got less than two years out of two batteries due to impatient teenager abuse.
If you were to hear him it is like asking a kid to mow the lawn in a texas summer is a gross violation of the UN unversal declaration of human rights, multiple US amendments, the fair labor act (although I say it’s a seasonal employment and so not eligible for overtime or certain age limitations), and is just unfair.
Although last year and this he has a proper paying summer job and he cranks the hours so it’s all back on me and that’s ok.
I thought it odd the first time my kid told me the mower broke, as I had never broken one like that in decades of mowing. So I bought a replacement. Then I happened to see him SLAMMING the thing up some stone steps in a way that almost seemed INTENDED to break it.
HE bought the next one - and amazingly, that one never broke! I’m using it to this day!
Yeah we’re missing two critical, yet missing pieces of the puzzle. Where is your lawn, and what kind of grass does it have?
I mean, I have a roughly 5000 sq ft. St. Augustine lawn here in Dallas, and there’s no way on earth I’d consider an electric mower- it grows fast enough from late spring through late fall that it can choke out a 6.5 hp self-propelled mower if I’m not careful. But in other parts of the country with other types of grass, that sort of mower might be ridiculous overkill.
I have a mix of grasses and weeds that’s often overgrown. I’ve used various self-propelled gas mowers, including one that I got by walking into a reputable store and saying ‘I need something that can handle seriously overgrown grass.’ And I now have an EGO battery powered mower.
That EGO handles my lawn with massively less stalling than any gas walk-behind mower I’ve used ever did.
The battery versions have gotten much, much better powered than they used to be years ago.
Well, just noticed the deck is splitting above a rear wheel. Expect to run out the gas in it, and then replace w/ cordless electric. Looks like the local hardware store we frequent has a good selection of egos and toros, so I’ll probably pick one of those.
