Something I got learnt about battery-powered lawn mowers, yesterday.

[RockmartDawg]

We've had so much rain over the past week... two weeks?? Maybe?... That we went from being extremely dry and grass not growing much at all, to grass growing like wild, and you having to mow like crazy. But, with it raining so much (it rained at least twice, yesterday) you couldn't even cut the grass because it was not drying out from the previous rains. My back yard got so bad, though, that I had to just go after it.

I figured I'd just go brute-force on the high grass and cut it at the height I would have normally cut it. Well... that does not work well, at all, with a battery-powered mower. It puts so much load on the mower that it saps the battery in about 1/3 of the time it would normally take it. Also, the electric motor will stop at a point when the load is quite heavy, and you have to pop out the battery and put it back in just to get it to start back up again.

I figured out that the only way to cut that super-high grass was to set the mower up as high as it would go, buzz through it once, drop the blade one notch, buzz through it again, drop it another notch, buzz through it, etc. I could finally get through it without it literally sapping the battery by taking that approach, avoiding putting a significant load on the mower.

That ain't too good, as it takes considerably more time to have to do that. Fortunately (hopefully), the situation with the rain that we've been seeing over the past couple of weeks doesn't happen very often.

[bNe]

Gas motors usually have more horse power than lectric ones. Thats always been the trade off.

when the GRASS gets too tall, your supposed to cut it multiple times anyway starting at the highest setting for the health of the GRASS. Most dont do that b/c its moe. work.

1/3 rule states you never cut more than a third of the GRASS blade off in a single cutting anyways.

[Toasty B]

I put a load on Branton' mum's battery

[RockmartDawg]

That makes sense (multiple passes in cutting high grass) with any mower, I reckon. Even a gas powered mower that is much stronger will still bog down really bad when it is bad-high like it has been getting with all of this rain.

That stuff, yesterday, though was just plain miserable.

[McDonoughDawg]

Pouring at my casa again, my zoysia gets hard to cut after one week with a gas mower..

[viper2369]

Cut mine last Wednesday as it had been a week, then with all the rain I needed to cut it again Saturday before more rain hit.  Damn near bogged down a 52" SCAG zero turn.  It's definitely thick.

[JC-DAWG83]

My yard is too big for a battery powered mower. If I had a smaller yard I'd look at one.

[RockmartDawg]

My entire lot is said to be .47 acres. One corner of it is fully wooded. Then, you have the house, deck, sidewalks and driveway, shrub beds, etc. Under normal circumstances I could cut the entire yard with a push mower in an hour. As I've had the mower about 3 years the battery is starting to not hold a charge quite as long.

I do like the mower, as it is very lightweight and very quiet. It is way more enjoyable to use than the old mower I had been using for so many years.

[RockmartDawg]

Cut mine last Wednesday as it had been a week, then with all the rain I needed to cut it again Saturday before more rain hit.  Damn near bogged down a 52" SCAG zero turn.  It's definitely thick.
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If it is bogging down a big boy mower like that... that's some thick and robust grass.

[GriffWoody]

Haven’t seen ol’ Branton around.  He must have moved back to Scotland.