Whatever you feel like thread.

[CloverKnollFarms]

How many batteries have you purchased, and at what total cost?

One of those 9ah looks to be about $140

 

[WinterDeere]

How many batteries have you purchased, and at what total cost?

One of those 9ah looks to be about $140

Read the last few pages of this thread! It was mostly about those battery costs, and the cost of fuel they're offsetting.

He just reported $225 / pair, a few posts back.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Read the last few pages of this thread! It was mostly about those battery costs, and the cost of fuel they're offsetting.

He just reported $225 / pair, a few posts back.

Right, but I thought he bought some last year that crapped out this year too

 

[Grumpycat]

Right, but I thought he bought some last year that crapped out this year too

IIRC no-name clone EGo batteries, which is what the above 9Ah are also too.

A brand who doesn't expect to be around long enough for you to collect on the warranty isn't going to use the good cells to build a battery.

 

[WinterDeere]

Right, but I thought he bought some last year that crapped out this year too

Good point. I thought we decided the OEM batteries were cheaper in the long run, Arly?

 

[ArlyA]

Mowed yesterday cutting less than overly tall grass conditions. If I really stay on top of mowing, seems I don't need the extra batteries anyway. (it came with 4 ego batteries in the 6 available battery positions). Having said that, when I removed the 2 that went bad over the winter, my traction suffered. So I want all batteries in there for taller grass cuttings and traction. 100% of our yard is a hillside.

 

[WinterDeere]

Suitcase weights still run $1 per pound? Heck, barbell plates might be another solution, with a convenient bolt hole in their middle.

 

[ArlyA]

Suitcase weights still run $1 per pound? Heck, barbell plates might be another solution, with a convenient bolt hole in their middle.

I like to mow or finish some job and have fuel left over. Lets say you mow 4 acres and sometimes you run out of gas when the grass was overly tall. When I do any job, I like to know I can finish it..

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Yeah, I mowed 3 acres of 12" tall grass yesterday. Lots of rain this year

 

[ArlyA]

The yard and its mowing is doing good.

 

[Grumpycat]

I like to mow or finish some job and have fuel left over. Lets say you mow 4 acres and sometimes you run out of gas when the grass was overly tall. When I do any job, I like to know I can finish it..

If you run out of gas mowing then it was your poor planning that didn't stop earlier to fill up.

In 2016 my EGo 21" SP would not quite mow the entire lawn on one charge of the 7.5Ah battery. Changed my strategy, mowed front one day, back another. Doctor recommended 25 minutes of good exercise a day so this provided another day of keeping my doctor happy.

 

[tacticalturnip]

The yard and its mowing is doing good. View attachment 3797181

That cut looks real good; I hope you get a long life out of the electric zero-turn.

 

[Shenandoah MF1760]

Suitcase weights still run $1 per pound? Heck, barbell plates might be another solution, with a convenient bolt hole in their middle.

My youngest went to a scrap yard and got 4 brake drums from a semi for cheap, also with a hole in the center as well as several little ones. Gawd-awful heavy buggers!

 

[5030]

Have to say the guy across the road sprung for an EGO riding mower, got half his lawn mowed and it died. Went back the next day for a real gas powered mower and probably saved some jack as well.

 

[5030]

If you want easy to mount weights, peruse FBMP or Flea Bay for Olympic Weight plates. You can get them used for cheap and they come up to 100 pounds per plate.

 

[ArlyA]

Today's mow. Can someone guess why the lawn looks goofy in the bottom pic? This silly mower was a good purchase.

 

[alexpops]

Hopefully that's not over your leach field

 

[MossRoad]

Yard party?

 

[ArlyA]

Springs make the yard wet. They are normally qone by now but all this rain we've had, they kept flowing this summer.

 

[MossRoad]

Ours is dry as dust!