[AT] Lawn mowers, weed eaters, etc

[Moe Fretz]

No electric Stihl products are made in Germany.


On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 11:17 AM HERBERT METZ <metz-h.b at comcast.net> wrote:

> Only problem with electrics is EGO is Chinese; and I heard that Stihl is
> now Chinese owned?  Herb(GA)
>
>
> > On 06/06/2021 11:01 AM Spencer Yost <spencer at rdfarms.com> wrote:
> >
> > To all the folks specifically mentioning weedeaters, hedge trimmers, and
> other small gas engines woes:  go electric. You will never go back.
> >
> > So it’s starts with my wife - who insists on doing some of the weed
> eating around the farm(a good thing cause I hate weed-eating) - not having
> the independence to weed-eat on her own.  I always had to start the weed
> eater for her.   I could start it fine  but she always seem to have
> trouble.
> >
> > So I sold it for 50 bucks and bought the Makita Electric.  I am
> absolutely flabbergasted that I didn’t think to make the switch years ago.
>  I love it.   I bought the package on Amazon that includes the nice charger
> and an extra set of batteries. Wasn’t particularly cheap but two sets of
> batteries provides way more than enough  power to cross anyone’s
> weed-eating stamina/boredom threshold.
> >
> > I can’t decide what the biggest benefit is. No smoke? Easy start? Quiet?
> No mixing fuel?  Absolutely anyone can run it?
> >
> > I’ll never go back to gas yard tools.  Only chainsaws and bigger stay
> gas.  Everything else is, or will be, electric.
> >
> > Spencer
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Moe Fretz

L’Orignal ON,
Canada
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