You have surely spent an hour just in unscrewing the cap, pouring gas, and screwing the cap back on ~150 times in 4 years. And I'll take your word for it that you've spent zero time on maintenance.

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You also ignore the time spent charging the battery when it runs out and having to wait. Sure, you may have an extra battery, but now you've added more costs and storage to the equation.

Like I said earlier, I'm on my 4th year trimming two properties totaling nearly 1.5 acres, a few thousand linear feet, around 7 oaks and a few dozen misc smaller trees, around hedges and flower beds, etc and have never once burned through the smallest pack that Ego sells. It typically has 20-40% charge remaining when I'm finished.

Again, I don't know what battery trimmer you have, but yeah if you have to stop for a charge your math will be different than mine.

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As long as you don't encounter anything too thick, sure.

Well I'm not trying to clear overgrown forest brush with it. It's a string trimmer, I use it for pretty typical weekly residential trimming. What kinda shite are you getting into?

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There is no comparison as to what each trimmer is capable of tackling.

I'm not sure I want to spend an hour with a gas trimmer that has more power than my Ego. I certainly wouldn't look forward to it.

Look, I'm just saying this thing has been zero hassle, and that very nearly 100% of the time that I spend dealing with it or even thinking about it I am doing useful work. Literally the only extraneous time is 5 seconds battery on, and 5 seconds battery off. Aside from that it is trimming as fast as I can move it, and after well over 100 uses I have never run the battery dead.

If your scenario and parameters are different, then by all means use what works for you. I will always tell everyone to use an appropriate tool for the job.

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Posted by LNCHBOX

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Posted on 6/14/22 at 1:45 pm to Korkstand

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You have surely spent an hour just in unscrewing the cap, pouring gas, and screwing the cap back on ~150 times in 4 years

How much gas do you think these things use?

It takes maybe 20 seconds to refuel, which even at your 150 number is only 50 minutes. But I only refuel ever second or third week, so more like 60 refuels over the last 4 years. So 20 minutes of refueling. Pull out the 5 seconds*150 for putting the battery in every week, and I'm down to only 450 seconds additional for refuel.