(10-12-2021, 04:23 PM)Jags Wrote: There was a bunch of talk amongst owners around here a few years back when California was looking to go that route.  You’d have to have inverters in the trucks to charge batteries for the hand helds. I have no experience with any commercial grade battery powered trimmers/edgers or blowers.  I can’t speak for run time or power.  Any battery operated stuff I’ve used has only been while helping a friend or family member when I happen to arrive at there house at obviously the wrong time.  Those lacked the power that were accustomed to. Now, there is a mower “Mean Green Mowers” that advertises 7 hour run times, which unless doing a massive commercial job, actually would last most people the day.  Even if you’re working 10 hrs, that mower is usually running about a third to half of that time give or take. There are claims that tip speed is equal to a 26 or so Hp gas mower. There are specs they conveniently leave out like the deck guauge.  Is it beefy enough to endure more than a few years? Idk. I don’t see a mulch kit option for them, so quality (clippings) would go down.  One could buy a commercial gas mower for about 8500+ options and figure at least 350-400+ per 2 cycle with blower being closer to 500 and hedge trimmer 500 or more.  So a gas set can be had for $10,000-12,000.  That mean green mower alone will run 20,000-30,000 depending on which one you get.  So the price of lawns get went up, on top of the price it already went up from the other BS like lack of labor and soaring costs of materials.  Briefly read the article.  Ca using 30m to help landscapers make the switch won’t go far.  You’ll have the small guys leave the business.  So no weekend warriors trying to make extra money to pay bills or put a kid through college.  The big companies will get bigger, so on and so forth.  Now, converting to propane would be a lot cheaper on the owners/businesses.  There are conversion kits for mowers that I and most everyone else uses.  You may have even seen commercial guys using them.  Just like any other commercial mower just has the tank on the back and now runs off propane.  There’s more to it, but that is a hell of a lot cheaper option than spending 25k on a mower.

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I’m sure I’ll have more thoughts. Just off the top of my head that is what I have.  That, and I’m glad I don’t live in California

Our dilemma is pretty much the same regarding this, though for different reasons.  My "green" way to solve this is to keep part of my "back lawn" cut down by grazing some cattle which is going to happen this next year.  I leased a few acres to a "neighbor" to graze some of his cattle on my property.  Of course it creates cow farts which supposedly is not "green", but it does raise grass fed beef which is better than most commercial beef.  I get cash (of course taxed as "income") and meat for letting the guy do it.

The law simply is not practical for some people.  For people that own a "postage stamp" piece of property with say a 1000 square foot lawn they can probably do it.  For the owner that owns acres of grass or the business that makes their living off of cutting many "postage stamp" properties a day, not so much.

Reality needs to be faced by liberals.  Fossil fuels are essential and are not going away.  Many farmers in our area are holding onto and maintaining older equipment because it doesn't require DEF which is a pain in the [BLEEP].

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