Single use plastics
If you’d asked me what was more important for a lawn mower, torque or horsepower, I’d have had no idea.
Some engineer on the web has done the work for me.
For mowing lawns you need horsepower. When your lawnmower stalls in thick, tall or wet grass (or weeds in my case), it’s due to a lack of horsepower.
Now, there isn’t an electric lawnmower out there that has even 1 horsepower. Your low end petrol mower is 3 horsepower.
Because of this, the vendors of electric lawnmowers obfuscate by advertising volts, amp hours, etc. Anything but horsepower.
Power isn’t even listed in their spec sheets. That’s close to disinformation.
In any case they’re currently not fit for purpose. Single use plastics.
I’ve just bought a new mower because the old one stopped starting. Who knows why?
I had it serviced ($100) and the bloke said it had old fuel in it. Complete bullshit; it’s always had old fuel and no problems. In effect it cost me $100 to change the fuel.
Now a few months later it won’t start again and I’m not wasting any more money on it. Three services and you’ve paid for a new one.
My new one is a 127cc motor mower that puts out 3 horsepower. But my 150cc motor scooter puts out 13hp. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
My guess is that lawn mower engines produce fewer horsepower than motorbike engines of the same displacement because lawnmower engines are cheap arse rubbish; they are air-cooled, inefficient but robust, and run at much lower rpm. This makes them cheap, durable and virtually maintenance free (lol).
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