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StormDrain posted:On the other side, I've used the trimmer on a fence, edged the lawn, and cut in around the planters every week for a month with the electric and I haven't had to recharge the 2.5ah battery yet. haha electric yard tool go brrrrrrrrr
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KakerMix posted:We've had an electric push-mower (the same one) for 7 years now and here is the things I've done to it: I think most of us that still have gas powered mowers still do because they're waiting for an opportunity to turbo them, or engine swap, Nitrous etc. Advent Horizon posted:We got rid of most grass and just use a cordless weed whacker - which takes the same batteries as the chainsaw, impact wrench, drill, router, magic wand, palm sander, and leaf blower. Battery powered Magic wand eh? Where can I find one of those? Asking for a friend 
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We've got just under a third of an acre, and the day this old 6.5hp Kohler/Lawn Boy mower dies I'll be going electric. I've already got a nice Makita 18v brushless string trimmer, and next is a 36v leaf blower kit to add to my battery collection. Though I can usually trim and edge the yard 3 times on a 5ah battery, so maybe getting 4 more batteries and a blower is overkill? As an added bonus, an electric mower would let me mow at 7am on a weekend and not feel like an rear end in a top hat. Then I could be done before the kid is awake and want to spend the whole day playing.
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I can’t vouch for the mowers but all my electric yard tools are still loud enough to require hearing protection.
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Advent Horizon posted:I can’t vouch for the mowers but all my electric yard tools are still loud enough to require hearing protection. I may have lost some hearing but I don't think my trimmer does. The mower is way quieter and I am able to use in ear headphones (the kind with rubber bits that seal) and listen to a podcast.
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Darchangel posted:edit: that begs the question: has anyone yet made a practical BEV tractor? Paging Slung Blade.......paging Slung Blade.
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Man, I totally forgot how much better freshly bled brakes feel. I had to replace number 2 from this diagram on my e34 because one of them was wet with brake fluid, and when I got it apart it felt like Nickelodeon Gak. Threw the new ones on there and power bled it using a cap from a bottle of vitamins which happened to be 45mm. At first I thought I hosed up somehow and got a huge air bubble because the brake pedal felt so smooth afterwards. For anyone not familiar with V8 e34s, afaik they hold the passenger car record for furthest distance between foot and master cylinder.  Yes, it is all the way up behind the driver's headlight, connected with a few foot long cast bracket and some pivoting rods and poo poo. E: Almost forgot to ask. Underneath one of those bushings was something that looked like the flame arrestor from a bottle of 151; a coin sized piece of metal with some divots and bumps and holes in it. Anyone have any idea what the purpose of that would be? Here's a lovely mspaint.  The green spots are holes, the red spots are raised, and the blue spots are divots. Almost seems like some kind of restrictor or flow smoother, but it looked pretty weird, was in an odd spot, and I can't say I've seen anything like it. Lowclock fucked around with this message at 03:25 on May 25, 2021 |
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Suburban Dad posted:Lawn mower chat. I had never messed with a carb at all before today. Mower wouldn't start so I took it apart and cleaned it, after arming myself with a youtube guide or two. Found no gunk or sign of anything wrong, and put it back together and it ran fine. I am a magician.    What that is even? Pulled it out of the car like year ago and it has just been standing in shelf.
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Captain Kosmos posted:Opened the 95s carb yesterday and i think i got your gunk. Looks like good old oxides of aluminum to me
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Captain Kosmos posted:Opened the 95s carb yesterday and i think i got your gunk. That's corrosion caused by ethanol fuel/water in the fuel.
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I hate that I'm now the middle aged creep looking for ethanol free gas for my older car. In the 80s I woulda been the dork that knows the location of every leaded gas pump in the county
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Motronic posted:That's corrosion caused by ethanol fuel/water in the fuel. Panty Saluter posted:Looks like good old oxides of aluminum to me Thought something like that. Part of it looked like some bug had made a nest in there.
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Captain Kosmos posted:Thought something like that. Part of it looked like some bug had made a nest in there. If it sat for a long time with fuel in it, make sure the float isn't full of fuel. They can leak and sink. I have seen this happen.
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Darchangel posted:edit: that begs the question: has anyone yet made a practical BEV tractor? This company has a traditional looking 30hp compact electric tractor out now that takes category 1 3-point pto and hydraulic implements: https://solectrac.com/cet-electric-tractor They're also coming out with this amazing looking thing at the end of this year with 3! attachment points but no hydraulics: https://solectrac.com/efarmer-electric-tractor  John Deere and Kubota have both announced they're going to make e Tractors but I haven't seen a timeline yet.
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Mustache Ride posted:This company has a traditional looking 30hp compact electric tractor out now that takes category 1 3-point pto and hydraulic implements: https://solectrac.com/cet-electric-tractor Slung Blade's friend converted an old tractor to electric and it always won low speed contests, torque contests, etc. at fairs. Really made the old timers angry. I know it had a bunch of lead acid batteries, otherwise don't remember the details.
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Panty Saluter posted:I hate that I'm now the middle aged creep looking for ethanol free gas for my older car. In the 80s I woulda been the dork that knows the location of every leaded gas pump in the county It’s not hard to find… https://www.homedepot.com/p/TruFuel-110-oz-4-Cycle-Ethanol-Free-Fuel-6527206/205913140
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Advent Horizon posted:It’s not hard to find… I use the 2stroke version in all my small equipment. I use them infrequently enough it's cheaper than loving around with crapped up carburetors.
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I have multiple pumps near me that dispense ethanol free for only a little more than E10 
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Mustache Ride posted:John Deere and Kubota have both announced they're going to make e Tractors but I haven't seen a timeline yet. Knowing John Deere they'll try to make it so you have to take it to a dealer to swap the battery out.
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Rhyno posted:Knowing John Deere they'll try to make it so you have to take it to a dealer to swap the battery out. Obviously, because if anyone other than a factory certified repair technician touches the batteries it could impact the safety and performance of the machine. 
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Special Deere charger, phones home verifying you have enough charges left. At least a few states are taking them on amongst others.
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Advent Horizon posted:I can’t vouch for the mowers but all my electric yard tools are still loud enough to require hearing protection. My neighbor across the street has one of those $2000 Husqvarna electric robot mowers that runs around the yard every couple days. It's quiet enough that I can't even hear it from across the street. So either my hearing is terrible from years of concerts and auto shops, or they really are that quiet! My string trimmer makes more noise from the sound of the string cutting grass than it does from just running the motor, and significantly less noise than my dad's gas trimmer. I do wear earplugs whenever I run it anyway, just because I've usually just finished running the mower.
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PitViper posted:My neighbor across the street has one of those $2000 Husqvarna electric robot mowers How does their lawn look?
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My dad had one of the first models of those things available in the US. It was a novelty at the time, could mow 1/3 of the lawn on a charge.
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taqueso posted:How does their lawn look? In rare cases of slight programming malfunction it looks like this https://youtu.be/xtfw6iP4Sw0
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taqueso posted:How does their lawn look? I feel like you don't care how your lawn looks if you hire a robot to do it. That said, probably better than me on my 65 year old lawn tractor with more steering play than a TTB ford
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I figured it'd be a mix of people who don't care and people who really really care. e: I'm assuming it is quite a bit smarter than a roomba which maybe isn't the case
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StormDrain posted:On the other side, I've used the trimmer on a fence, edged the lawn, and cut in around the planters every week for a month with the electric and I haven't had to recharge the 2.5ah battery yet. My Ryobi One+ single line trimmer can do my whole yard trimming and edging on one 3.0 Ah battery, which is all I ask.
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Motronic posted:Obviously, because if anyone other than a factory certified repair technician touches the batteries it could impact the safety and performance of the machine. Colostomy Bag posted:Special Deere charger, phones home verifying you have enough charges left. Since when did Apple, and Ferrari take over John Deere? I mean Ferrari is obvious, trying to compete with Lamborghini, but Apple too? PitViper posted:My neighbor across the street has one of those $2000 Husqvarna electric robot mowers that runs around the yard every couple days. Hack that poo poo and make it do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1anW87oZVYE Bonus points if it actually has a speaker. wesleywillis fucked around with this message at 00:24 on May 26, 2021 |
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taqueso posted:How does their lawn look? I mean.... It's pretty much always well-trimmed. The mower does it in chunks based on how long it goes between charges, but it can basically mow whenever. So his grass is always trimmed pretty much the same height, and it seems like it cuts as well as my gas mower does. The most I see him doing is going around with a string trimmer once a week or so, since the robomower doesn't get right up on the edging or around trees. It also mows in some pretty random patterns, so it's not like it runs the same pattern day after day. It also mows in the rain, unless (I assume) you tell it not to run that day.
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PitViper posted:I mean.... It's pretty much always well-trimmed. The mower does it in chunks based on how long it goes between charges, but it can basically mow whenever. So his grass is always trimmed pretty much the same height, and it seems like it cuts as well as my gas mower does. The most I see him doing is going around with a string trimmer once a week or so, since the robomower doesn't get right up on the edging or around trees. So to me that means it just looks like poo poo. Evenly cut poo poo, but.....yeah. Random patterns aren't what I'd expect and if you have decent law it's gonna show that. Although I looked at them and lol none are rated to do as much grass as I have (and am actively working to reduce).
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Yeah, it doesn't sound great. Using a random cut direction every time you cut is good for the turf, but that isn't just totally random like a roomba. It should be configurable. Hell, special patterns should be easy with a robot mower. And I would expect a feature like not cutting wet grass to be part of the bare minimum package. Maybe the future is robot goats not robots mowers. taqueso fucked around with this message at 03:12 on May 26, 2021 |
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chrisgt posted:If it sat for a long time with fuel in it, make sure the float isn't full of fuel. They can leak and sink. I have seen this happen. They are empty and looks like theres no holes or anything. I guess its ok overall? Just really dirty, abused and the linkage is so-so.
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Motronic posted:So to me that means it just looks like poo poo. Evenly cut poo poo, but.....yeah. Random patterns aren't what I'd expect and if you have decent law it's gonna show that. I just cut my grass, man. I don't give two shits about it looking good by bothering with stripes or whatever, lawns are just an extra, boring loving chore that takes up time when you could be doing something else you'd actually want to do. I'm assuming this guy feels the same hence robomower.
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Captain Kosmos posted:They are empty and looks like theres no holes or anything. I guess its ok overall? Just really dirty, abused and the linkage is so-so. The fuel seems to leak in through cracks in the solder joint between the two halves, not holes. If you like to live extremely danger, you can torch them apart and solder the float back together again...
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I just cut my grass, man. I don't give two shits about it looking good by bothering with stripes or whatever, lawns are just an extra, boring loving chore that takes up time when you could be doing something else you'd actually want to do. I'm assuming this guy feels the same hence robomower. Amen
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