Buying a forever lawnmower. Lawnmower buying advice.

[Craftsman Garage]

How do you like the " Personal Pace" feature? Some people hate it. Thank you

Stay away from the personal pace of you will have endless problems

 

[GearHead36]

How do you like the " Personal Pace" feature? Some people hate it. Thank you

I love it. It's like just taking a walk around the yard. Almost effortless. Turning the mower around, though, takes a bit of effort.

 

[GearHead36]

Obviously, some people have been smelling gas fumes for too long.

Obviously, some people have drunk the green kool-aid. The OP asked for recommendations for a "forever mower". Which I take to be, one that will never need to be replaced. Battery mowers are currently the exact opposite of this. There are pretty much zero 5 yrs old battery powered mowers in use. They are notorious for having unavailable parts after 2 yrs. Admittedly, the gas mowers are getting cheaper and cheaper, too, and I don't mean cost wise. This is why I recommended an older used gas mower. Battery powered equipment may get to the point of never needing to be replaced, but it's nowhere close to that at this point in time.

 

[TonyPrin]

Obviously, some people have drunk the green kool-aid. The OP asked for recommendations for a "forever mower". Which I take to be, one that will never need to be replaced. Battery mowers are currently the exact opposite of this. There are pretty much zero 5 yrs old battery powered mowers in use. They are notorious for having unavailable parts after 2 yrs. Admittedly, the gas mowers are getting cheaper and cheaper, too, and I don't mean cost wise. This is why I recommended an older used gas mower. Battery powered equipment may get to the point of never needing to be replaced, but it's nowhere close to that at this point in time.

Not Kool-Aid, just data. Today's battery powered equipment isn't like a decade or more ago. The technology has improved tremendously, and costs have improved. Battery is becoming the way to go for yard equipment just as it has for other power equipment like saws and drills. Does anyone wonder why Toro, Snapper, and STIHL make battery powered mowers now? (Maybe they drank the Kool-Aid, too.) And as it's also becoming for cars, which is why Tesla is worth more than Ford, GM, Honda, and Toyota combined. If anyone thinks gas powered equipment is "forever", I have a horse and buggy to sell you.

 

[Rivets]

Craftsman, I don’t know what problem you’ve had with the Toro Personal Pace mowers, but they are about the best mowers out today. The cast deck models outlast all other decks and the drive system are good and allow any user to cut at the pace they want. Mulching is close to excellent, if you don’t try to remove more that you should. I realize that all U-tubes videos are the absolute truth, but as I said. I’ve been selling them to customers from 19-75 years old since they came on the market and they will live twice as long as any Craftsman mower on the market today. The reason the drive system has problem Is that people don’t maintain them properly.

 

[Craftsman Garage]

Obviously, some people have a good sense of judgement between what is crap and what will work for more than two years.

Obviously, some people have been smelling gas fumes for too long.

 

[Craftsman Garage]

Craftsman, I don’t know what problem you’ve had with the Toro Personal Pace mowers, but they are about the best mowers out today. The cast deck models outlast all other decks and the drive system are good and allow any user to cut at the pace they want. Mulching is close to excellent, if you don’t try to remove more that you should. I realize that all U-tubes videos are the absolute truth, but as I said. I’ve been selling them to customers from 19-75 years old since they came on the market and they will live twice as long as any Craftsman mower on the market today. The reason the drive system has problem Is that people don’t maintain them properly.

I don't want to talk about it Rivets

 

[Craftsman Garage]

Not Kool-Aid, just data. Today's battery powered equipment isn't like a decade or more ago. The technology has improved tremendously, and costs have improved. Battery is becoming the way to go for yard equipment just as it has for other power equipment like saws and drills. Does anyone wonder why Toro, Snapper, and STIHL make battery powered mowers now? (Maybe they drank the Kool-Aid, too.) And as it's also becoming for cars, which is why Tesla is worth more than Ford, GM, Honda, and Toyota combined. If anyone thinks gas powered equipment is "forever", I have a horse and buggy to sell you.

Just because it is "the way to go" doesn't mean that does the job well. And why does toro snapper and stihl ma me battery powered equipment now? Because they want to follow the stupid regulations made by california for pollution. A single battery for landscaping will make more "pollution" when it is manufactured than in the lifetime of a gas mower. Climate change and global warming is a hoax guys, and you need to snap out of it. It's like yeah teslas are "the way to go" but that doesn't mean it's better than a lamborghini, or yeah, electric semi trucks would look cool and futuristic or whatever but that DOES NOT MEAN that it will last 500000 miles or more like gas semi trucks do! I can't believe I had to explain all of crap. Some people just have no filter when they're looking at news, and that's a problem guys.

 

[Rivets]

Why, because you might be in the very small minority?

 

[TonyPrin]

Just because it is "the way to go" doesn't mean that does the job well. Climate change and global warming is a hoax guys, and you need to snap out of it. It's like yeah teslas are "the way to go" but that doesn't mean it's better than a lamborghini. ... Some people just have no filter when they're looking at news, and that's a problem guys.

I suggest not making it so easy to be proven wrong. The photo below is the Lamborghini Revuelto, described by them as a "HPEV (High Performance Electrified Vehicle)". In case anyone's wondering, below that is the Ferrari Stradale, per them a "PHEV (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle)". Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but I'm with Toro, Snapper, STIHL, Lamborghini and Ferrari - and reality.