Thread: Cordless gardening tools...No thanks

love my cordless mower and whipper snipper. 18v.

yes sometimes cant handle tough stuff. use the right tool for the job. 18v, does 99% of what i want.

It all depends what you need to do. I have an average backyard with garden beds, fences, etc. I have the 18 volt Ryobi Cordless Whipper snipper and it works great (note there are 2 different types - different sized motors). Can do the edges around the whole yard 3 times on one charge.

it won’t work like a brush cutter or good petrol powered unit if you have tall thick grass to cut back, but to zip around once a fortnight with before mowing, it’s perfect.

Did the back yard this morning....and it perform better ok ish with standard length grass.

Mm, i have a little sthill miniboss and recently bought a Dewalt 30cm, with the 5ah battery or runs for ages and cuts the smaller bits up to 25cm so easy. The only gotcha is you need to check the bar oil with the larger batteries. Other than that it works real good and very happy with it.

No noise - much less
Light
Does not run all the time
Great for small jobs

At the end of the day... petrol has the power, battery is easy.

Originally Posted by weeds

Visiting my parents and they have a Ryobi 18V ONE+ whipper snipper......

The above mention cordless whippet snipper is up against it...having to deal with with Sir Walter, thick Sir Walter, ride on mower thick Sir Walter and yes it would be hard work for my Honda but 1/2 tank of juice and I would have smashed it out....I’m probably 1/3 the way through with the cordless and it’s 5amp/hr battery is on charge overnight.

Keen to try some 36V gear.

So, it's not that it can't cut the grass, just that the battery ran out? Must be quite a big bit of land, because I've not had that problem even with the 4.0Ah battery. But if I did, I have three or four batteries charged up.

I had a 2 stroke Stihl brushcutter that came highly recommended but turned out to be a piece of rubbish. In frustration I then bought a Ryobi 18V+ and it was a revelation and works really well. I do have heavier grass that the Ryobi struggles with so I bought a Honda straight shaft, and to be honest even that struggles with some of the couch grass runners but is immeasurably better than the Stihl. There's a new 18V+ Ryobi with a stronger engine that I'm thinking of trading up to.

Originally Posted by Arapiles

So, it's not that it can't cut the grass, just that the battery ran out? Must be quite a big bit of land, because I've not had that problem even with the 4.0Ah battery. But if I did, I have three or four batteries charged up.

I had a 2 stroke Stihl brushcutter that came highly recommended but turned out to be a piece of rubbish. In frustration I then bought a Ryobi 18V+ and it was a revelation and works really well. I do have heavier grass that the Ryobi struggles with so I bought a Honda straight shaft, and to be honest even that struggles with some of the couch grass runners but is immeasurably better than the Stihl. There's a new 18V+ Ryobi with a stronger engine that I'm thinking of trading up to.

Average house block.......hard to explain just how thick the grass is. I know my petrol brush cutter would have done it easy.

Originally Posted by weeds

Average house block.......hard to explain just how thick the grass is. I know my petrol brush cutter would have done it easy.

your not called weeds for nothing...

I've had the opposite experience. I fried a petrol Stihl cutting small logs. Replaced it with a Ryobi electric which whizzed through those same logs like a circular saw.
We have several batteries and chargers. Just bought Ryobi whipper snipper and blower and got another battery.