Thread: Cordless gardening tools...No thanks

Need to have another round in your holster.

Originally Posted by theelms66

Need to have another round in your holster.

Even with additional batteries (would have needed three all up) it would have taken twice as long.

Horses for courses hey.

Originally Posted by weeds

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

I sorta had high expectation given how many people rave about them online, whipper snipper, mowers, chainsaws etc..........

They kind of have their uses.
I rave(a little) on line about the chainsaw, but my chainsaw needs a low to mild.
Predominantly camp fire timbers .. so we pick and choose our camp fire timbers.

You definitely wouldn't use one like you'd use a petrol chainsaw .. ie. chopping a 1 meter diameter redgum .. and whatnot!
I've made a reference to having used mine one handed to chop a small tree in an awkward posi.
I could have used my cordless reciprocating saw, but it doesn't balance well one handed. That's why I used the Ryobi chainsaw. It felt much safer of the two options.
Obviously I get that one handed operation vs safety using chainsaws .. etc. I made sure I had everything planned out so nothing would go wrong, and it didn't.
Actualy the real challenge was to be sure that the falling branch didn't destroy some windows on that side of my house, so a very controlled cut, to direct the branch in a very specific direction and speed(downwards).

I have(my brothers old) Ryobi One Plus brush cutter. He now has all synthetic turf, and I have a small amount of whipper snipping to do at home.
Lawn is only cut with a petrol mower, but I struggled with the cordless snipper to trim those areas that required it.
It worked, but a chore to use for my not very arduous needs.

Enter dad!
He no longer had the need for the AEG 54v whipper snipper I got him, so he returned it.
What used to take me at least one hour with the not so useful Ryobi, I can now do in a few minutes with the AEG.

So it's a matter of horses for courses.
For just trimming the edge of grass where the mower misses, Ryobi was fine. Lasts a while, same batteries as the tools .. ie. a bit of a rave there, with caveats on the usefulness.
But when it comes to those treelike weeds I get in some parts of my yard(mainly along the side of the house) and some corners of the yard .. Ryobi is useless. AEG tho .. rips everything I've ever asked it too.
Only issue with AEG is the amount of work time(for those interested in such specs). I'd estimate going for it, you'd get 1 hr continuous usage.
I rarely need it for more than 15mins.

18V pfft ,, toy can not be compared with a proper garden tool thus I understand your uninformed test report.

I have an 80Volt Victa 22" cut mower and powers through grass , Best mower Ive ever had , Ditto my 80V weed trimmer .
Unfortunately I missed out on their 80V Chainsaw so snagged a Victa 40Volt Saw , Love it , its unstoppable .

Originally Posted by goingbush

18V pfft ,, toy can not be compared with a proper garden tool thus I understand your uninformed test report.

I have an 80Volt Victa 22" cut mower and powers through grass , Best mower Ive ever had , Ditto my 80V weed trimmer .
Unfortunately I missed out on their 80V Chainsaw so snagged a Victa 40Volt Saw , Love it , its unstoppable .

I’ll reserve my comment until I give them a try.....I’m more commenting about the dozens of comments about 18V gear.

I built a shed today with my 18V Milwaukee gear and it was perfect for the job.

not a fan ov the ryobi 18V gear,

the 36V stuff though.. does what it needs so long as the yards not too big.

My 12 year old son bought a Dewalt 18V chainsaw (for cutting wood as he had to explain to the sales rep in Total Tools when he asked him what he was going to do with it ).
He uses one my dewalt flexvolt 54V/18V 6ah batteries that fits it.
It lasts forever on one battery. He was cutting 450mm diameter logs when he first got it.
I've even borrowed it, when he wasn't looking, for demolition jobs at work a few times. It impresses everyone.
Very handy tool.