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No mo' mowers and yo' leaf blowers...

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Yeah, but I'm not staying here forever. Besides, California is mostly rural.
Are you rural or in suburbia? I grew up mowing the lawn in the actual countryside (among the farms) with the jumbo jets literally flying overhead.
 
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Oh, I know... You'll probably sleep better at night, if rural Americans from "fly over country" are disadvantaged a little bit.
New York…? Flyover state? You doing ok over there, my dude?

Wasn’t it just 20 hours ago you dramatically declared you’re never going to talk to me again and wanted me to do the same?
 
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Are you rural or in suburbia? I grew up mowing the lawn in the actual countryside (among the farms) with the jumbo jets literally flying overhead.
I went to high-school in a "township", outside city limits, and we had a Cub Cadet riding mower.
 
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New York…? Flyover state? You doing ok over there, my dude?

Wasn’t it just 20 hours ago you dramatically declared you’re never going to talk to me again and wanted me to do the same?
Now I just can't get enough of you...

But you realize New York, doesn't mean New York City, right? And I said fly over country.
 
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Now I just can't get enough of you...
Well that’s certainly a total 180 from what you said yesterday but still consistent with what I knew already.

But you realize New York, doesn't mean New York City, right? And I said fly over country.
My point is that New York is not a flyover state or part of flyover country. It’s not even next to it. And did you read the thing or are you just making sure we all remember that you had your heart set on arguing with me?
 
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Well that’s certainly a total 180 from what you said yesterday but still consistent with what I knew already.
Adaptability is one of my best qualities.
 
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I went to high-school in a "township", outside city limits, and we had a Cub Cadet riding mower.
I don't know what "in a township" means. It was 6 miles to school for me and I push-mowed an acre..
 
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I don't know what "in a township" means. It was 6 miles to school for me and I push-mowed an acre..
Geez, that's a lot of pushing. I hope it was at least self-propelled. I think we had 1/4 acre. But we had apple trees! About 10. The horses next door loved them, but apples made them drool.

...But living in a township usually means corn fields all over the place, mixed with open fields, and some forestry, and not very great roads a lot of the time.
 
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Geez, that's a lot of pushing. I hope it was at least self-propelled. I think we had 1/4 acre. But we had apple trees! About 10. The horses next door loved them, but apples made them drool.
It was propelled by a *my* self. It took 2-3 hours to mow. Currently I live in a suburban setting with 1/4 acre lot. Still using a pushmower and when this one dies, like Dylan, I'm going electric.
...But living in a township usually means corn fields all over the place, mixed with open fields, and some forestry, and not very great roads a lot of the time.
At least our roads were paved.
 
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for little lawns they may work...but when I've seen the vast rolling acreage that people in the upstate region have, I can't imagine any of the reps from that part of the state would be on-board with it.

I take the upstate corridor on i-90 from Buffalo to Syracuse (then north up to Watertown) when I make trips up to the Canadian cabin... there's huge stretches up there where it seems like everyone has 5+ acres by the looks of it, and from what I'm seeing, the majority of battery power mowers can handle about 1/4 of an acre before needing a recharge.

John Deer started making those Z-track riding mowers that are electric and can do 1-2 acres per charge....if you've got $6800 bucks to buy one and a 220 quick charge line installed lol...otherwise, the front of your property will be ready to mow again by the time you've taken 3 charge breaks to finish the back.
Checked another brand that wasn't zero-turn, and it runs around $4,800 US. Same 2-acre limitation. Meanwhile, a gasoline powered riding mower by the same manufacturer and same size runs around $2,220. At current gasoline prices, that's a difference of 886.9 gallons. That's about 591 weeks for me. A rough estimate taking in dry spells comes down to almost 74 years of mowing to make up the difference.

Struck out looking for a drop-in battery to evaluate the cost. The charger for the battery runs nearly $600, so that's likely part of the initial expense.

Would also like to see how well it performs in Bahia grass. It presents a challenge to the electric push mower I have. For that matter, it presents a challenge to gasoline powered mowers, if it's a spell of wet weather and the stuff is thick.

The reason I have an electric push mower is the same reason I have an electric chain saw: Engine issues. After the replacement carburetor I put on one didn't last out the season, I went electric rather than thrown good money after bad. It does what I need. The best thing is I happened to get it on clearance as the store was clearing out mowers to make room for Christmas stuff. End result is I paid right at what I would for a gasoline powered push mower.

No more than I use a chainsaw, it made more sense to go electric - except there's no way to charge the battery when the power's out. The gas motors will require maintenance, or at least they do around here. The battery is interchangeable with the chainsaw battery, so I could use the mower battery in the chainsaw - the other way around would have too short a run time.
 
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