Lawn Equipment - Best bang for your buck

Used equipment on FB Marketplace is a great place for cheap, decent stuff.

For a small yard, I’d recommend going battery powered. There’s lots of options available from most big box stores. EGO, Ryobi, DeWalt are all good options. Most have the equipment you’d be looking for.

It will be a little more expensive than gas powered equipment. But you won’t have to mess with gas, mixing fuel if 2-stroke, carb problems in storage, etc. It’s much easier and convenient.

I recently got a Ryobi electric trimmer that I love... lots of attachments sold separately
$200



Edger attachment
$80



When my snapper went out, I ran to lowes and got a craftsman FWD self propelled... 140cc...cheap and works great for the price... Briggs and Stratton engine... mulching blade and bagger attachment
$300

I mean, if we're talking budget gear that works well, it's hard to beat that set up

All in at $500-600 with good reliability and performance is kind of a no brainer

I originally bought it to make trim passes for for my riding mower, but I found myself using it more and more for the whole lawn

Good little unit

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Oh my!

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Maybe I should have specified my Snapper Hi-Vac

Gas-powered push mower.
Ryobi electric everything else.

I’ve had the same setup for 3-4 years.
30-45 minutes and I’m done. No issues.


-Weedeater with edger attachment.
-Blower.

There’s different tiers of equipment. Don’t get the cheapest or most expensive. Go middle tier.

To all people that have a battery powered mower..

I might be looking into a new mower. My situation is that I am not able to cut my grass on a weekly basis. Mostly @ 10-11 days. Also I cut early in the morning when the grass has a lot of dew. Would a battery powered mower be able to handle the taller wet grass?

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What kind of grass?

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It's a mixture of weeds and St. Aug.. But it sure does look good when it is cut..LOL..
My 12 year old Toro Recycler has some trouble cutting through the tall and wet grass.
So I take it that if I get a battery powered mower I would have to cut my grass more frequently. But what about the wet grass? Is it safe to cut wet grass?
Edit.. Basically what I saying...I assume the battery mower is lighter and easier to use..Right? So I guess I can rearrange my schedule to cut my lawn more frequently. But I am not willing to cut in hottest part of the day when the lawn is dry..So that's why I am asking how the battery mowers react to the wet grass (electrically wise).

EGO makes the best battery powered lawn equipment hands down!

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For a small yard, I’d recommend going battery powered. There’s lots of options available from most big box stores. EGO, Ryobi, DeWalt are all good options. Most have the equipment you’d be looking for.

It will be a little more expensive than gas powered equipment. But you won’t have to mess with gas, mixing fuel if 2-stroke, carb problems in storage, etc. It’s much easier and convenient.

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Yeah, like a lot of things if it costs less money it will cost you more time in the long run. So if you count your time in with the "bucks", battery is the way to go. I can't comment on a battery powered mower because I'm still gas there, but for everything else lawn-related I have Ego gear and I couldn't be happier. I've had the trimmer, blower, and edger for about 3 years, and I figure they save me several hours per year. It might not seem like a big deal to spend 3 or 4 minutes per week handling fuel and oil and all the other things specific to gas equipment, but when you think about those minutes adding up to hours per year, for me it's a quality of life thing. We only get so many hours, and if I can trade 3 hours of fiddling with gas for doing literally anything else, every year, that's quite an improvement for me.