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It’s reached the point where I now look at people using two stroke lawn mowers and instinctively think its weird that they’re using such crude and uncivilized t

It’s reached the point where I now look at people using two stroke lawn mowers and instinctively think its weird that they’re using such crude and uncivilized technology. The noise alone is a reason to switch, imho.

winrid 5y ago
There are some people who are "nerdy" in a different way, and actually like the noise, for example. Different strokes for different folks :)
- jeddy3 5y ago
  And live in a neighborhood were everybody else is "nerdy" about the noise?
  - winrid 5y ago
    Nobody ever said there was a neighborhood :)
    - jeddy3 5y ago
      Fair enough.
StillBored 5y ago
two stroke mower? Where do you live? In the US, the only major brand selling two stroke motors was lawn boy, and I can't remember the last time I saw one of those. They were always a bit odd. Just about any mower you see is 4 stoke, which is far cleaner.
- xxs 5y ago
  two strokes are brush cutters, tend to be. They are no push mowers, though... and electric ones are absolutely no replacement due to sheer lack of power (or battery life). @grand parent - Mowing ditch/stream slopes with anything but petrol brushcutter is just next to impossible. Saying that as owning - a battery strimmer, a 4-stroke petrol push mower, a battery robot mower and 2-smoke brush cutter. I have tried using even a battery powered hedge trimmer. In other words - not everything is a nice flat rectangle short grass cover.
- ashtonkem 5y ago
  I honestly assumed they were two stroke. The last lawn mower I used at my parents house was two stroke IIRC (smelled like it at least), and I never bought a gas mower once I bought a house. I went straight to electric.
tempestn 5y ago
Oh, yeah, I didn't even think of the (lack of) noise. Can easily listen to a podcast or whatever while I mow.
Angostura 5y ago
And I have a good old fashioned manual cylinder mower that I push along and think? Why on earth do people need electricity?
- maxerickson 5y ago
  I've used one of those for the last several years, it's terrible if you get behind even a little bit, the long grass doesn't make it into the knife. I'm gonna a buy a battery mower this year.
- ashtonkem 5y ago
  Depends on the size of your yard and how quickly it grows. My current yard is on the edge where power is a nice to have, my parents’ old yard would have taken hours to do with a non-powered motor.
alex_duf 5y ago
I know I'm going to sound like an unpleasant person, but I now get that same feeling every time I drive by a petrol station (with my electric car).
gtvwill 5y ago
My mowers getting on 10 years old now. It's probably gonna do another ten. I don't like waste. I'll probably try convert it to run off ethanol. I'd buy more battery gear if it wasn't designed to be so wasteful and the market wasn't full of so much lock in. Getting stuck in one brands battery goes against alot of my ethics re. Tech purchases. I hate vendor lock in.
- tempestn 5y ago
  My Ego mower is 8 years old now. (I got one as soon as they were available in Canada, as it was the first mower to operate at >40V.) Still works like new. Don't think they're inherently any more wasteful than gas. And of course, they don't waste gas. Yeah, you're locked into the battery, but at worst, if you don't use the battery for anything else, that's no worse than the gas mower. With a few tools though (leaf blower, string trimmer, maybe hedge trimmers...) you end up saving a bunch.

winrid 5y ago

There are some people who are "nerdy" in a different way, and actually like the noise, for example. Different strokes for different folks :)

jeddy3 5y ago
And live in a neighborhood were everybody else is "nerdy" about the noise?
- winrid 5y ago
  Nobody ever said there was a neighborhood :)
  - jeddy3 5y ago
    Fair enough.

StillBored 5y ago

two stroke mower? Where do you live? In the US, the only major brand selling two stroke motors was lawn boy, and I can't remember the last time I saw one of those. They were always a bit odd. Just about any mower you see is 4 stoke, which is far cleaner.

xxs 5y ago
two strokes are brush cutters, tend to be. They are no push mowers, though... and electric ones are absolutely no replacement due to sheer lack of power (or battery life). @grand parent - Mowing ditch/stream slopes with anything but petrol brushcutter is just next to impossible. Saying that as owning - a battery strimmer, a 4-stroke petrol push mower, a battery robot mower and 2-smoke brush cutter. I have tried using even a battery powered hedge trimmer. In other words - not everything is a nice flat rectangle short grass cover.
ashtonkem 5y ago
I honestly assumed they were two stroke. The last lawn mower I used at my parents house was two stroke IIRC (smelled like it at least), and I never bought a gas mower once I bought a house. I went straight to electric.

tempestn 5y ago

Oh, yeah, I didn't even think of the (lack of) noise. Can easily listen to a podcast or whatever while I mow.

Angostura 5y ago

And I have a good old fashioned manual cylinder mower that I push along and think? Why on earth do people need electricity?

maxerickson 5y ago
I've used one of those for the last several years, it's terrible if you get behind even a little bit, the long grass doesn't make it into the knife. I'm gonna a buy a battery mower this year.
ashtonkem 5y ago
Depends on the size of your yard and how quickly it grows. My current yard is on the edge where power is a nice to have, my parents’ old yard would have taken hours to do with a non-powered motor.

alex_duf 5y ago

I know I'm going to sound like an unpleasant person, but I now get that same feeling every time I drive by a petrol station (with my electric car).

gtvwill 5y ago

My mowers getting on 10 years old now. It's probably gonna do another ten. I don't like waste. I'll probably try convert it to run off ethanol. I'd buy more battery gear if it wasn't designed to be so wasteful and the market wasn't full of so much lock in. Getting stuck in one brands battery goes against alot of my ethics re. Tech purchases. I hate vendor lock in.

tempestn 5y ago
My Ego mower is 8 years old now. (I got one as soon as they were available in Canada, as it was the first mower to operate at >40V.) Still works like new. Don't think they're inherently any more wasteful than gas. And of course, they don't waste gas. Yeah, you're locked into the battery, but at worst, if you don't use the battery for anything else, that's no worse than the gas mower. With a few tools though (leaf blower, string trimmer, maybe hedge trimmers...) you end up saving a bunch.