Edging helps you cut a straight line in the grass where your yard meets mulch beds, roads, and sidewalks. Trimming, or weed eating, allows you to cut the areas around stationary objects in your yard. You can give your yard a clean and uniform cut by trimming and edging your grass where your lawn mower can’t reach. To support this business model, This Old House may be compensated if you purchase through links on our website. I always appreciate your comments.Affiliate Disclosure: This Old House’s Reviews Team is committed to delivering honest, objective, and independent reviews on home products and services. Will they still be making the GCV engine moving forward for other manufacturers ODPE or for repowering? For example pressure washers, tillers, generators, vacuums etc. What are their plans for the snow thrower market?. Honda said they are getting out of the Lawn mower business after this year. I have not used it much to date, but plan to keep it in the even my primary mower does not work.īut since you brought it up. I also have a 2012 model SR with the same Quantum engine. I like my 20 year old super recycler with the Briggs Quantum. Some of those push mowers with the B&S engines are made pretty cheaply. As you can see just going to the box stores that ICE options are smaller every year. I am just observing, inspite of the push to go battery powered, there is a population that enjoys their gas powered stuff and will maintain it as prices for new are rising sharply and options are diminishing. There's no need to panic just yet if half-burnt hydrocarbons smell like victory to you.Ĭlick to expand.I did not intend to imply anything about Honda or any ICE manufacturer. That said, 4-cycle gas-powered pro equipment will be with us for many, many years to come, or at least until the next Great Leap Forward in battery energy density and cost. Unreliable, stanky, janky, noisy 2-cycle engines (yes, even your favorite brand sucks) are dying a richly deserved self-inflicted death, and good riddance if you ask me. Still, there are already battery-powered solutions for both these that easily handle the modest scale of my drive and yard, so these will eventually be replaced. The same goes for a lot of homes the last bastions of combustion, cutting grass and throwing snow, are harder to replace because they take a LOT of energy, plus a lot of people have 4-cycle equipment that is a lot less problematic than 2-cycle stuff, and could last for decades more. I was absolutely giddy when I replaced my 2-cycle crap with battery powered equipment. The only ICE equipment left in my garage is a rarely used snow blower, and a mower that refuses to die. We're only at the dawn of the electric age, but battery powered equipment already does the job just fine for millions of us with standard 1/4 - 1 acre suburban yards, and is one hell of a lot more convenient and reliable, especially when compared with 2-cycle equipment. Yes, I know half the people on Garage Journal paid cash for their 30 acre mountaintop compound, drive a pre-DEF coal roller towing a 15,000 pound trailer uphill all day everyday, and NEEEEEEEEEDDDDD the 28hp TreeSlayer9000 chainsaw with a three-foot bar and squirrel mangler attachment, but.ĭown here amongst the rabble in the real world, the cold hard reality is that market forces are pushing ICE equipment out of the way. It will take some time yet, but the transition for homeowner equipment is well underway. Look around in any home center, and this is what you're seeing. Click to expand.I kinda thought that's where things were headed.
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