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Electric garden tools are great as long as you work quickly. I have a walk-behind mower and it has a TON of torque even in super-tall grass. I cannot imagine s

Electric garden tools are great as long as you work quickly. I have a walk-behind mower and it has a TON of torque even in super-tall grass. I cannot imagine someone running a landscaping business with them, though. You'd have to double or triple your hauling load just to carry all the batteries you'd need to power them in a workday.

DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
If they charge quickly, maybe just have two sets of batteries, and require customers to let you charge the unused ones while you work?
- ganoushoreilly 6y ago
  They don't charge all that quickly and I don't think customers want people plugging in battery chargers at their homes, at least I wouldn't. All it takes is one bootleg charger from amazon, or one bootleg battery from amazon (of which there are plenty of examples) and boom nasty battery fire. I would place money on that being a magnitude more likely than a spontaneous fire from combustables in the back of a truck. EDIT: Let's downvote instead of actually having a proper response. I can't wait until the bubble some of you live in pops and all of this nonsense goes away.
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- imoverclocked 6y ago
  I have a Stihl electric polesaw/weed eater/brush/… combo with a backpack battery. That battery outlasts my ability to use it in a day. Multiple small batteries is an extremely doable solution for a professional. Also, what you add in battery charging, you easily make up with reduced maintenance of the tool.
r00fus 6y ago
Electrics don't have a plugin while working option do they?
- ganoushoreilly 6y ago
  Most dont, sans a third party adapter that replaces the battery. It's also implying that a power outlet is readily available, which I imagine with a lot of landscaping it isn't.
  - henearkr 6y ago
    But in urban or suburban context a power outlet is never far away. We're speaking of people doing their lawns after all...
    - NDizzle 6y ago
      You've never seen landscape crews making their rounds? New theft target when each one has to carry $8k worth of batteries in the truck/trailer to have enough juice to perform their normal task, which could have been performed by two 10 gallon jugs of gasoline.
      - henearkr 6y ago
        Most of the time electric lawn-mowers are just using the mains and are powered through a cable. These kind of models exist since a very long time, and I was not thinking of any battery model when I wrote my comment.
        NDizzle 6y ago
        So the dozens/hundreds of crews are just going to plug in anywhere/everywhere they can? That's not feasible.
        henearkr 6y ago
ldbooth 6y ago
There's always a drop cord and non-battery options for almost every tool, which I prefer to the inevitable battery degradation (so that makes my leafblower coal and hydro powered). I have an electric leafblower and 2 dropcords. When trucks are electric, problem solved, this can run off the accessory power.
- core-questions 6y ago
  Yep. That new Ford with the big inverter and battery will be a good model to follow; and of course no doubt companies like Milwaukee who have been pushing all sorts of electric stuff lately will come out with good options to add on. Hell, even just running a 4-stroke generator will be far less polluting.
mikestew 6y ago
The charger for the Kobalt mower and grass trimmer from Lowes charges the batteries faster than I can use them. However, the batteries are only good for 30 minutes or so, and the equipment is hardly commercial-grade. The batteries can also be palmed with one hand, so there's room for an upgrade for commercial use.
lostlogin 6y ago
The operator needs to charge them in the truck, and many trucks come with power points. My neighbour is a builder and he laughs at the guys with big batteries as they lug them about. He carries two or three small ones and switches them out regularly. Ruined wrists don’t have to be a thing.

DoofusOfDeath 6y ago

If they charge quickly, maybe just have two sets of batteries, and require customers to let you charge the unused ones while you work?

ganoushoreilly 6y ago
They don't charge all that quickly and I don't think customers want people plugging in battery chargers at their homes, at least I wouldn't. All it takes is one bootleg charger from amazon, or one bootleg battery from amazon (of which there are plenty of examples) and boom nasty battery fire. I would place money on that being a magnitude more likely than a spontaneous fire from combustables in the back of a truck. EDIT: Let's downvote instead of actually having a proper response. I can't wait until the bubble some of you live in pops and all of this nonsense goes away.
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imoverclocked 6y ago
I have a Stihl electric polesaw/weed eater/brush/… combo with a backpack battery. That battery outlasts my ability to use it in a day. Multiple small batteries is an extremely doable solution for a professional. Also, what you add in battery charging, you easily make up with reduced maintenance of the tool.

r00fus 6y ago

Electrics don't have a plugin while working option do they?

ganoushoreilly 6y ago
Most dont, sans a third party adapter that replaces the battery. It's also implying that a power outlet is readily available, which I imagine with a lot of landscaping it isn't.
- henearkr 6y ago
  But in urban or suburban context a power outlet is never far away. We're speaking of people doing their lawns after all...
  - NDizzle 6y ago
    You've never seen landscape crews making their rounds? New theft target when each one has to carry $8k worth of batteries in the truck/trailer to have enough juice to perform their normal task, which could have been performed by two 10 gallon jugs of gasoline.
    - henearkr 6y ago
      Most of the time electric lawn-mowers are just using the mains and are powered through a cable. These kind of models exist since a very long time, and I was not thinking of any battery model when I wrote my comment.
      - NDizzle 6y ago
        So the dozens/hundreds of crews are just going to plug in anywhere/everywhere they can? That's not feasible.
        henearkr 6y ago

ldbooth 6y ago

There's always a drop cord and non-battery options for almost every tool, which I prefer to the inevitable battery degradation (so that makes my leafblower coal and hydro powered). I have an electric leafblower and 2 dropcords. When trucks are electric, problem solved, this can run off the accessory power.

core-questions 6y ago
Yep. That new Ford with the big inverter and battery will be a good model to follow; and of course no doubt companies like Milwaukee who have been pushing all sorts of electric stuff lately will come out with good options to add on. Hell, even just running a 4-stroke generator will be far less polluting.

mikestew 6y ago

The charger for the Kobalt mower and grass trimmer from Lowes charges the batteries faster than I can use them. However, the batteries are only good for 30 minutes or so, and the equipment is hardly commercial-grade. The batteries can also be palmed with one hand, so there's room for an upgrade for commercial use.

lostlogin 6y ago

The operator needs to charge them in the truck, and many trucks come with power points. My neighbour is a builder and he laughs at the guys with big batteries as they lug them about. He carries two or three small ones and switches them out regularly. Ruined wrists don’t have to be a thing.