re: Weed eaters can KMA

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How much gas do you think these things use?

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Well hell bro, all that trimming power you're talking about sounded like you burned a lot!

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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.

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If all that is accurate, and if you never have to clean up gas from your tools, the floor, or yourself, and if you never make special trips to the gas station because you need it on hand for other things anyway, and if you never clean the filter, and if it starts on the first pull every time, and if you spend zero time dealing with oil, then no there isn't much time saved.

And I know it sounds like I'm harping on the little details, but that's kind of the point. There are no little details with a battery trimmer. It's easy to point out that eventually the battery pack will need to be replaced because it's a big in-your-face thing, but I think we overlook the details in a lot of the things we do and write them off as just the way things are. We don't realize what a big pain the little things add up to until they're gone, and even then sometimes we still don't recognize it. But I do, and there is absolutely no way I would go back to a gas trimmer.

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I don't look forward to yard work regardless of what tool I use

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I hear ya. I sat on one of the Ego riding mowers at Lowe's the other day. I want one real bad so I can get rid of the gas can completely, but for $5k I think I would rather buy a fleet of robo-mowers. Now *that* would be a huge time saver, and would pay off in a year or two of not paying a lawn service.