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When was the last time I changed the oil in my mower? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Now that I think about it, it was probably before the pandemic. 🤔

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[–] 83 points 2 years ago (7 children)

If you buy an electric mower, you never have to change the oil again. Or the spark plug. Or buy gas. Or clean the carburetor.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    And they're quieter! God I wish my neighbors all had electric mowers. Sometimes it seems like they're invited to all the zoom meetings I attend.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    The mowers are fine, it's the weedwackers that are the problem.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you never mow and grow insect friendly lawns...you wont ever have to buy a mower...fuck lawns.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My next mower will probably be a lawn service

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    After spending several hours on Saturdays doing yardwork I didn't enjoy doing for years on end, I finally hired a gardener. Now I get to spend that time doing yardwork I do enjoy, like making landscaping improvements, or gardening.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I expect they do need lubrication from time to time. I just bought an electric mower this year and it's pretty low power, so I predict that any amount of additional friction in the system is going to be too much.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Wish they made an affordable electric zero turn that could handle mowing 7 acres of field 3-4 times a month in the summer. I need commercial grade sadly and there’s nothing in the homeowner space that comes close to my needs. The commercial ones are like 30k to compare with what I got for 6k

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But you will have to buy $1000 worth of batteries if you have a large yard.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    While I can’t say I have a large yard. My 80v Greenworks system can do the job 90% of the time on 1 battery (I have 2). When it can’t from being lazy and not mowing as often as I should have or it was especially rainy, I can swap the batteries in moments and the battery charges within 20 or so minutes. By then I am done or using the battery from the mower in the leaf blower or weed whacker.

    I would imagine if I had a larger yard I would go with a third in the event of having longer grass to cut and would have a battery charged, battery charging, and one in use.

    I would not trade my yard system with a gas one for any amount of money. If i do anything it’d be to hire someone that uses electric (quieter!) to mow and edge and all that jazz. Or use a Fiskars reel mower.

    Oh yea. I drive an ID.4. Suck it gas stations trolololol.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I have 1/3rd acre, takes 2 batteries to mow uninterrupted. Anything bigger than that I hope it's not just grass, that's a waste of space.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    How much is a battery?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    About $70 I think. I didn't have to deal with buying an extra battery, cause my original mower was stolen out of my garage. I keep the battery inside to prevent temperature degradation, so I still had it when I bought another mower with the battery included.

    Before that I'd just mow half, and do other yardwork while the battery was charging.

    I bought it after getting tired of having to fix my old gas mower. The pull cord broke, then the mechanism that it attaches to broke, then the priming bulb cracked and started leaking gas, having to go get gas for it, etc... the electric just works. I don't have to winterize or fuck with the carburetor, I just press the button and it works. It's more powerful than my old mower, doesn't bog down if I skip mowing for a week. It's better in every way.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I have all DeWalt electric power tools for most of my stuff, but the lawnmower was pretty expensive, and required a lot of expensive battery power. Since then I’ve purchased a couple of 9a 60v batteries, so I could probably switch now, but I started just paying someone to mow my lawn a while ago. Now I can spend my time improving the yard instead of just maintaining it.

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