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Well, we’ve definitely hijacked @Robert Hall’s post with way more mower information than he needs. Robert, have any inside pics yet?

I think, like vehicles, Americans tend to overbuy on lawn equipment. I went from a big, single blade, walk behind... big torque, rear drive, bagger/mulcher, and it was such a headache towards the end of its life. For a couple seasons I used my father-in-laws ooooooold Black-n-Decker corded electric. It was a basic as could be. I could only do my front yard and my upper rear yard, but it did it without fuss every year. Parts were non-existant. I hit a stone and couldn't buy a new blade, but it still ran, just a little buzzy. The worst was that about once per season, I'd eat an extension cord. Eventually, it melted the control handle, but for a mower that was probably 25+ years old and free, I wasn't mad for the extra few seasons I got out it. I knew after that, I'd never go back to gas, so I got the EGO. That can do my lower back yard too, which is mostly wooded. It does fine. The only thing I'd change about it would be the wheels, which don't have a lot of grip.

Survivor or HNIC? I missed 1 potentially exciting game and 1 interesting period in another game over my wife's and daughter's insistance that I watch freakin' Survivor with them. Never say never...but Im NEVER missing NHL playoff hockey again. (unless the 2 most important women in my life dont give me a freakin' choice)

They say Electrical is the new Oil Barons.

I don't remember when I saw this, so it's not suited for a spotting thread. It was slightly west of Palm Springs, heading toward Los Angeles. They look like dominoes.

I shoulda bought the Honda. I think that feature for feature, the Craftsman (which from memory, was Toro built) was the same. One key thing I need is an OHV engine because they have more powerful oil pumps. I have steep hills, and the old-style flat-head motors would eat themselves because their little oil pumps would starve if they were on the slope for too long. Way back when I bought the Craftsman (actually from Sears, so that gives you an idea of the age), OHV pushmowers were relatively rare. Only high-end models and most of the Hondas had them. The thing about the Honda was that it was a push mower that weighed damn near as much as an Accord. I was mowing the lawns at my rentals at the time, and lifting it into the CR-V or CTS would have been a bitch. I still got the craftsman base on price, though.

That's by the book time.... as gas mowers age, they tend to get crankier. Maybe it is different for other brands, but the maintenance parts for my Tecumseh-powered Craftsman were always stupidly expensive. $20 for an air filter, plus shipping, $8 for a spark plug, plus shipping. $45 for a wheel that split. control cables snapping. Nothing was ever local, and I'd need to wait 7-10 days to get it. Same for my gas snow blower. The gas power tool experience has poisoned my One thing not obvious about the EGO is just how light and compact it is. It folds up and has two handles that you can carry it with while folded if you need to load it into a car. It goes into the Toronado trunk no problem. When I store it for the winter, I can stand it upright and slide it behind the furnace.

It depends on how much of your own maintenance you do and how much you're willing to pay for someone else to maintain it if not. In my case, time being such a big issue, I don't want to have to mess around with a cranky gas mower or have to load it on a trailer once or twice a year to pay $150-$200 for the lawn equipment company to maintain it. I'd rather spend my afternoons doing things I enjoy. Dropping in a few batteries saves me time. I bill my side-hustle clients at $120 an hour. That makes it easy math.

I have the EGO also and I really like it. The extra cost over a gas equivalent is worth it just from the lack of having to do all the gas engine maintenance. Every spring was a fight with my gas mower plus $40 - $70 in parts for whatever broke.

Speaking of electric mowers... I saw Toro has an electric version of what I currently have "coming soon". I'd freakin love that. It's pretty damn expensive for a push mower, but it's still about half of what a decent rider/zero turn would cost and that'd still be ICE.

The realtor posting would imply half an acre of grass to mow. I have a third of an acre and I enjoy mowing it with my ego mower. But I totally understand others that yard work is not their desire to do. I would want a small tractor with a plow on it to handle the driveway during winter. Like you, I enjoy the yard work.

The Alero was my first car back in 2001...it was a handsome POS

Nice! Congratulations, Moltar. Plenty of room to expand or collect things if needed. I don't know how y'all deal with the snow and cold.

Nice house! But Im thinking... "that is a lot of snow to clear in the winter time..."

GLS sedan...Black on beige interior w/ the 3400...everything that can go wrong did go wrong. Warped brakes every other year LIM gasket failure at < 60k miles Warped dash Even the freaking Hazard light switch went through the dash...as in: I pushed it to turn on the hazards and the button went inside the dash. Water pump Radiator and an Alternator...that may have been wear and tear