Electric Lawn Tools: so far, so good

User: isoar@charter.net

Vendor: Drive Green - Green Energy Consumers Alliance

Action: 1 - Green your electricity

After a couple decades cutting logs with a hand saw and dragging them to the yard to cut into firewood with a plug-in electric chain saw, I've been very impressed with the convenience, power, and battery life of my Ryobi 40v/4AH chain saw.

I use the same battery for my lawn trimmer, which I think would run for many days on one charge.

Last week I tried my son-in-law's EGO 56v/5AH lawn mower, and was again impressed with how much work it could do on a single charge.

My current gas-power riding mower is fairly young, and I have nearly two acres to mow, but I'm looking forward to replacing it with a battery powered one in a few years. That wasn't even an option until recently, but a web search produced plenty of them a moment ago.

I also borrowed my son-in-law's EGO leaf blower and like the other tools was positively impressed by it.