Electric Lawn Mower?

I bought the 40v ryobi mower last spring and used it all summer and it's been great. I can do my entire lawn on half the battery. The best thing about it is that it stores upright so it saves space. My only concern is if the battery dies a replacement 6ah 40v battery costs more than the mower itself. I'd replace my snow blower with a battery one too, but it looks like anything that can match the performance of my 2-stage gas blower would be like $1500+.
 
Wish I had an electric snowblower at home. Being a good neighbour I hand bombed it at home as it was before 7am. The blower I bought from @nobbie48 is still going strong so no justification for a replacement yet.

Cottage on the other hand …11.5hp for the win! 💪

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We’ve had a Ryobi for two years, along with the trimmer. I think it was a buy one get one free deal. Works great. Before that, we had a corded mower for 30+ years. Don’t forget to take the blades off every once in a while to sharpen them, or they might refuse to do so.
 
danp said:
I bought the 40v ryobi mower last spring and used it all summer and it's been great. I can do my entire lawn on half the battery. The best thing about it is that it stores upright so it saves space. My only concern is if the battery dies a replacement 6ah 40v battery costs more than the mower itself. I'd replace my snow blower with a battery one too, but it looks like anything that can match the performance of my 2-stage gas blower would be like $1500+.
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I've used a Ryobi 40V selfpropelled mower for 2 seasons at the cottage, Came with two 6ah batteries and a string trimmer. Great units, work very well. Got a tool only chainsaw on sale for $80 and tool only limber on sale for $150.

If you're starting out a potentially good deal would be a snowblower with 4 batteries and then a series of tool only accessories.
 
When we lived at a townhouse with a single driveway just long enough for one car, I bought a corded electric snow thrower and found it worked great. That little unit could shoot the snow across the roadway and saved my back. After we moved to a detached home a couple of years ago I went looking to get a more powerful snowblower.

I briefly considered a battery powered two-stage unit, however, the cost to get one that I felt could tackle the plow cast at the end of the driveway was about twice as much as a new 10hp two-stage gas powered one. I also had concerns about battery life because, as most know when you get your snowblower out you typically don't stop with just your own driveway. I usually go around and blow out the plow cast from the ends of several neighbours because I'm out there anyway so why not.

So I now have a one year old gas powered blower that will most likely last at least 15 years. Perhaps by the time this one is done the battery power ones will be more affordable and have longer lasting batteries for cold weather.
 
We have a corded blower, like a corded mower just start near the plug and work outwards and the cord is not an issue, always behind you...

Neighbour has a big gas one. The electric one is much faster with smaller snow falls as you can move way faster (weight and manoeuvrability), say 10cm or less. Heavier snowfalls (more than 10cm or really wet) his gas wins. Clearing the windrow after the plow dumps an icy pile of hard chunks, big gas one wins. Maintenance and storage, electric wins.
 
Watched neighbour with the battery powered two-stage blower for a minute today. They had an interesting technique. Not sure if they were trying to extend battery life or if they had another reason to do this. They would do the length of their driveway with the blower off (a glorified self-propelled shovel) and then turn the auger on a the end to blow the snow away. Only a few inches of snow.
 
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danp said:
I bought the 40v ryobi mower last spring and used it all summer and it's been great. I can do my entire lawn on half the battery. The best thing about it is that it stores upright so it saves space. My only concern is if the battery dies a replacement 6ah 40v battery costs more than the mower ppitself. I'd replace my snow blower with a battery one too, but it looks like anything that can match the performance of my 2-stage gas blower would be like $1500+.
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Look at third party options - lots of aftermarket batteries available out there for much less than OEM prices. The tiny two amp hour on our Ryobi leaf blower died after many years of service and I replaced it with a four amp hour one from Amazon for less than half of the two amp hour Ryobi replacement.


Wingboy said:
Several neighbors have electric blowers. When the plow comes by, the shovels come out.
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My Ryobi blower will do the plow windrow. I might have to do it in chunks in extreme cases, but it gets it done. No shovels needed.
 
PrivatePilot said:
My Ryobi blower will do the plow windrow. I might have to do it in chunks in extreme cases, but it gets it done. No shovels needed.
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One stage or two stage? I used to use a honda 5hp one-stage for years after I moved up here. It got the job done but was a lot of work. If the windrow froze and/or was more than about 10", shovel was faster than blower. Thankfully, neighbours would help me out in those situations and get the windrow with their two-stage.
 
GreyGhost said:
One stage or two stage? I used to use a honda 5hp one-stage for years after I moved up here. It got the job done but was a lot of work. If the windrow froze and/or was more than about 10", shovel was faster than blower. Thankfully, neighbours would help me out in those situations and get the windrow with their two-stage.
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Single stage. But the thing is a beast.

Honestly, even the little corded electric piece of crap Snow Joe I used to have would get the windrow done if you were patient enough. Small chunks and patience. Still beat shoveling.
 
Since a few years now we've made a decision to go to the cottage just to deal with the windrows. Been instances where we'd show up and there was a 4-6ft windrow to deal with...that was fun.

Thankfully when they put a 10-12ft one in front of the gate for some reason town of Wasaga sent a excavator to get rid of it...on Jan 1 of all days.

'Can we help you?'
'Uhmmm...nice to see you guys are working on Jan 1. Can someone let me know why there's a 12ft windrow in front of my driveway? I can't get into our property'
'Nah you must be mistaken'
'No..I'm looking at it'
'Someone will be there in 15min'

Supervisor showed up and cursed his staff. He apologized and as I cleared the driveway within the cottage I could hear the beeping of the excavator coming. Guy cleared it within 2min and all was good.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Trans Empire truck driving school. Presumably student driver with an instructor in the cab as well.

Paid zero attention to the speed limit on highway 35 and was blowing past everyone who was bothering to do the speed limit. Lucky the green hornets weren’t out on a blitz as they’ll pull over commercial trucks for that in that area.

Then got on the 401 and parked in the middle lane doing just barely over 100 and was apparently oblivious to vehicles passing on both sides.

And no headlights on at dusk either.

It’s no wonder the quality of new trainees in this industry is so bad.
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Was there a plow on the front or a mower on the back????????
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