Time to convert from small engine to battery tools?

[cdaigle430]

All I need to complete my tool set and be rid of my compressor (already got rid of my small engine tools like the chainsaw) is a Milwaukee finish nailer and plainer.

 

[downsizingnow48]

I've got the Makita 36v chainsaw and 36v leaf blower. They are perfect for my uses. I would definitely get a 36v trimmer, except I bought a Husqvarna 4 stroke trimmer just before I figured out the 36v tools would do the job. It is quiet and easy to start and will outlast me.

 

[ultrarunner]

Yup. That's why we went to cows.

My mowing time window is short, between the slopes being too slick to safely work on them to too dry is often only a couple of weeks.

All the best, Peter

You get it... the windows to get in and out are weather dependent.

The same for Dozer work... several days after a rain...

 

[Wagtail]

The hillsides are humming with string trimmers in prep for fire season... grass already waist high...

Steep hills means tractors/mowers not an option.

Fire department issued notice that only non metal cutting can be done to minimize fire from rock strikes causing sparks...

So no metal blades mechanical or hand held...

If you can't use nylon cord or metal or scythe the leaving only cutting heads with nylon blades...

Remember dozing as it got dark and seeing the sparks from the dozer blade hitting rocks... so every year fires here staying doing abatement work...

Maybe time to invest in grazing animals?

I use an Aussie product/head called "WeedWakka" and it works great. Possibly available via eBay.

Weed Wakka Pty Ltd

 

[ultrarunner]

I use an Aussie product/head called "WeedWakka" and it works great. Possibly available via eBay.

Weed Wakka Pty Ltd

Stihl has something similar... work great in fields... not so good on hillsides with rocks...

Worth a try and thank you for link

 

[ponytug]

I have the Stihl version of that "Weed Wakka", and with all of the rocks I have here, I have found that for my uses both nylon string and metal blades worked better, though the "Weed Wakka" looks like changing a broken blade would be faster.

I do use the "X" cross-section nylon string.

All the best,

Peter

 

[two_bit_score]

I use an Aussie product/head called "WeedWakka" and it works great. Possibly available via eBay.

Weed Wakka Pty Ltd

It looks good but: “We are not able to supply Weedwakka products to North America.“

 

[Wagtail]

It looks good but: “We are not able to supply Weedwakka products to North America.“

Bugger. The blades really are easy to replace if one gets broken, which hasn't happened to me yet.

It's the same thing with "Fuel Doctor", only readily available here and NZ. (Shipping costs overseas make it prohibitive)
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I've gone back and re-read that statement and I believe that what they're saying pertains to 'commercial' supply. International postage is available to a 'direct' customer.

 

[ultrarunner]

Could be legal ease and litigation avoidance...

 

[ultrarunner]

I've got nearly a full spool of commercial line plus a 2 year old Echo handlebar brush cutter... so I'm going for it...

Let the Fire Department, Weed Abatement and OPD work it out...

Years ago when OPD arrived when I was grooming fire breaks I was asked to stop...

I thanked the officer and asked if he could write it on his card...

Officer asked why and I said I would rather not be here but Fire is coming back Monday to inspect and I will just show inspector I was told to stop...

Officer said carry on...