If it's been a couple years since you tried electric, I would try again. The state of the art in cordless electric landscape tools really has improved a lot ove

If it's been a couple years since you tried electric, I would try again. The state of the art in cordless electric landscape tools really has improved a lot over a fairly recent period. If you stay within one brand the batteries are all interchangeable too, so if you just have two and keep one on the charger you can pretty much eliminate battery charging headache. Some vendors offer a backpack-type electric blower that uses multiple batteries for better runtime. I used to begrudgingly use expensive four-stroke tools because they were less irritating than two-stroke and electrics weren't up to snuff, but more recently I've replaced everything but a leaf mulcher with cordless electric and I'm really happy with them. I'll probably replace the mulcher eventually as well, I don't doubt that the cordless equipment can deliver, it's just that it still works and where I use it trailing an extension cord is fine.