Which piece of outdoor power tool/equipment that you own is your favorite to operate?
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Snowblower
My neighbor and I went in 50/50 on one of these when I moved here. Gets used about 7- 8 times a winter and is very clutch. Kiddies start cruising our sidewalks at 725 AM to get to school and you have to get the snow off before it gets compacted, lest it turn to death ice that will break someone's hip. I love firing this thing up at 7AM (the first legal moment) to piss off some of my pussy neighbors. Just changed the oil for the first time after 4 season. @1to392831weretaken would be proud of me.
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Powerwasher
I'll agree the noise is annoying, but most of these have noise anyway.
A snowblower would be a once per decade use here, but with the sidewalk on the other side of the street and my house facing south with the driveway angled upwards I get a lot of melting support, plus I am good to shovel.
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Leaf Blower
All about the batteries. I never want to own another thing with a tiny carburetor on it. String trimmer, snow blower, lawn tractor, leaf blower, chainsaw: all batteries.
It's nearly impossible for anyone here to have more Dewalt tools than me (not a fan, just locked into the battery system like said above), but their early string trimmer sucked dick. Died in three uses, then the replacement died in two. The EGO string trimmer is superior in every way. I ended up going EGO for yard tools and DeWalt for everything else.
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Snowblower
I have a Honda mower (160 CC) that I bought used from that store on Aurora across from 7-11 back in like 2015. Finally changed its oil too…ha, ha. Runs like a fucking champ. When it dies, I'll consider and electric mower but until then…nah.
I don't see electric ever being a solution to heavy duty snow blowing. I have some neighbors with an electric snow "thrower" and that thing it worthless as tits on a boar for any decent amount of snow.
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F.O. Row Peter Puffer, You Left Off...
My father in law has the same unit and did the same. Actually he bought it and his neighbors pay their part by cleaning his driveway with it. It's very easy and nice to use. He can actually handle it fine himself and this is an 84 y/o guy who takes a couple of minutes to climb a short flight of stairs
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Weed Wacker or Edger
perfect lines from the edger give my OCD mind a hard on. It’s also instant gratification and the details of the details when it comes to proper lawn maintenance.
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Leaf Blower
If they can get a 5000 pound car to 60 mph in two seconds with electric, I think they'll eventually crack the snow throwing code… For what it's worth, I don't even have the most powerful EGO snow blower, and it kicked ass clearing my 2500 square foot driveway when it was buried under 6" of wet snow last winter. I share it with my brother, and he clears his whole road with it so he can get out.
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Leaf Blower
Exactly
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Snowblower
In theory, something like this guy could have enough charge to work for our couple of driveways, back alley and sidewalks. But damn they are spendy at $1400 with batteries. And you gotta promise me those batteries won't catch on fire.
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Lawn Mower (ride on or push)
Just store it in one of your Duck neighbors' garages.
