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pkveazey:
Nemo.... The one I bought is a KOBALT from Lowes and it's a 24 volt 4 Amp Hour battery. It also came with the charger.

pkveazey:
My 2 extra weed eater batteries showed up today. Hmmm..... I thought that I had ordered two 24 volt 4 Amp hour batteries. Well, I took them out to the tool shed to put them on the charger to make sure they were completely topped off. After charging them up, I started comparing them to the one that came with the Weed Eater. They looked exactly like the KOBALT battery in every detail except they didn't have the KOBALT name on them. Hmmmm..... The ones that I just received say 6 Amp Hours on them. Well, I hot footed it back in the house and looked up my order and sure enough, I actually had ordered 24 volt 6 Amp Hour batteries. I guess that means that I'll get 1/3rd more cutting time before they go dead. Sometimes we just screw up in a good way. As best I recall, the 4 Amp Hour batteries were only about 3 or 4 dollars cheaper than the 6 Amp Hour. By the way, the charging time from dead to full is less than 2 hours.

JohnyMac:
It is the good Lord looking out for you.  :thumbsUp:

FeedingFreedom:
Two years ago I bought an E-Go push mower, and I really like it. Battery (56v, 5 Ah) has held up well and still does way more than my yard requires. I was going to buy one of their trimmers too, but I have an old Husky commercial trimmer that was given to me many years ago because it wouldn't run and would die when you gave it throttle. Cleaned the carb, replaced the primer bulb, and it's never failed to start since, runs like a champ. I only run stabilized ethanol-free gas in my equipment, got tired of cleaning fuel tanks and carbs every year and sometimes multiple times a year. I rarely run more than half a tank of fuel doing my normal trimming, but a couple times a year I help someone out and will run multiple tanks through the trimmer in one day. If I had an electric, I'd be waiting for batteries to charge for sure. My neighbor has an electric, and it's realistically not much quieter than my gas trimmer. The mower is stupid quiet, I could mow at night (it has headlights) and no one would notice. I still get looks from cars passing by, they see me pushing the mower, but there's no noise, I think they think I'm just out there pushing it around with it not running.  :))

What I really want and can't justify is a backpack blower. E-Go makes one, but apparently it eats batteries pretty quickly. Even the handhelds don't last very long, definitely not long enough to get all my leaves done in one go.

Nemo:
I think I am just going to get a goat.    The only question remaining is how bad I would miss my wife.

Nemo

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