[AT] Lawn mower carburetors are a piece of cake..... Wrong

[John Hall]

Bought the wife a battery powered electric blower for cleaning the 
sidewalk and front porch off. Fast powerful, convenient, no smell. I 
still used the gas ones at the farm shop for cleaning off farm 
equipment. I bought Kobalt from Lowes. Also got a polesaw--that thing is 
great!! Uses same batteries. It doesn't telescope as long as my old 
school Remington, but it still does a great job and is more 
convenient--plus I'm not scared to use it if the ground is wet.

John Hall


On 6/6/2021 11:01 AM, Spencer Yost wrote:
> To all the folks specifically mentioning weedeaters, hedge trimmers, and other small gas engines woes:  go electric. You will never go back.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I can’t decide what the biggest benefit is. No smoke? Easy start? Quiet? No mixing fuel?  Absolutely anyone can run it?
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> I’ll never go back to gas yard tools.  Only chainsaws and bigger stay gas.  Everything else is, or will be, electric.
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> Spencer
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