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So was I... Hopefully my B&S engined Hayter will last me a bit longer yet, although as I have some Stihl battery kit already I'm hoping their battery mowers are pretty good.
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Friend of mine has a number of battery cordless garden tools, mower, strimmer, small chain saw, and they all perform well and do the job they are meant to do. I know because I've used them all on a number of occasions.
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Re mower - I have just bought a new petrol - We let a large chunk of the grass turn into hay meadow last year and intend doing the same again. In September we cut it down, and I was concerned if an electric one would be up to the job when we do the same again. All went well last year until the wife hit a brick with the mower, I am sure it now has broken the con rod. It was over 20 yrs old, and its deck had several holes in it, so time to move on
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My old Mountfield mower carb decided to start leaking just before I went off on hols. A friendly neighbour cuts my two smallish lawns for me when I'm away, so I needed to get something sorted promptly. I treated myself to a Makita DLM382 mower, takes 2x18V batteries. It does the two small lawns 4 or 5 times on fully charged 5Ah batteries, it's quiet, light, well built and it works.
I definitely wouldn't try to cut long or wet grass with it, but if you have a reasonable proper lawn then they'll do the job fine. So much less hassle than dealing with a petrol jobbie as long as you don't expect it to tackle tough stuff. I also treated myself to a 2x18V Makita DUB362 blower to use when I can't be bothered to fire up the Stihl blower. Again, it's not the same calibre as the Stihl but for small leaf/grass clipping blowing jobs it's just so easy to use (a breeze even!).
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As things break or die I am replacing them with Stihl battery equivalents. Currently have blower and scarifier (AK series batteries) and strimmer, hedge trimmer and pole hedge trimmer all using the bigger AP batteries. Luckily both battery types use the same charger. Good kit with lots plenty of oomph but not cheap. They should see me out though so I'm happy enough.
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![]() I just ordered a Makita DLM382CT2 today...
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Hope it works well for you Seeker. My lawns were looking rather tatty a week or so ago, the grass has hardly stopped growing during the mild winter and the front looks more like a meadow than a lawn, so I set the mower to the highest and gave it a run over. It worked fine and looks much better. When it comes to doing a proper cut I'll drop the mower down a notch or two each time in order not to over-work it.
All my cordless tools are Makita so I have the batteries anyway, I just don't have the twin charger (which would be nice) so I have to do the batteries separately but it's no big deal.
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