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Old 04-16-2022, 12:39 PM
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DC electric motors have high torque capability and other advantages over gas engines. Such as not having pistons flopping back and forth. And the creepy cheap diaphragm carburetor on gas lawnmowers is a design waiting to fail. Not sure if they use injectors now, but those could gum up. Honda makes quality equipment. But, the future is electric and many consumers are slow to respond to any changes.
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DeWalt makes quality battery-powered equipment. I liked the sarcasm. And we DO have postage size yards. I would cut a 1-acre yard up north with a push-type early battery-powered lawnmower, no problem because I was 10 years younger then. So, it was just a fun exercise for me then. And I saved a lot of money using electricity rather than gas. Today, gas prices are much higher and could go up....way up....with world problems.
Understand. On my 10 acres in N. Florida I only mowed the road easement along two sides. I measured it one and that was a 5 mile walk almost every week in in the summer (back and forth over and over 20 times for 1/4 mile).

Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now...