mr_raider
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- 2021 Mustang Mach-E Select AWD
My cars have batteries. But not my watches.
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Its amazing how far the battery powered equipment has come in just the last few years.For those in snow regions, Matt Ferrell did a review of the EGO battery 2 stage snow blower:
I recommend watching Matt's YouTube videos, he owns a Tesla, but many of his videos are about battery powered equipment, solar energy, smart homes and other interesting topics for us nerds. I found out about him when I attended a session he did last year at Fully Charged Live in Austin.
I ended up just getting one of the corded SnowJoe's for $99. We don't have sidewalks in our neighborhood so all I have to do is my driveway (although it's a pretty good size driveway, maybe 30'x50'). But it's all in reach of a 100' extension cord. The corded units are like 1/3rd the price of the battery's, and it doesn't have to stay plugged in year-round to protect the batteries. Most of the snows at this house and under 6".Its amazing how far the battery powered equipment has come in just the last few years.
I bought a snow joe 100v 2 stage snowblower last month. Only 1 snow storm so far, but power is not an issue at all. Never bogged down once in 8-12 inches of snow. It was relatively dry snow, so take that for what it's worth. Only did the walkway this time, so hoping for some snow soon to try it out (and better skiing conditions!) On the sidewalk and driveway.
On most, if not all, of the battery ones you take the batteries out. Thus the snow thrower doesn't have to remain plugged in (and if you store the batteries inside they wouldn't need to be plugged in either once charged).I ended up just getting one of the corded SnowJoe's for $99. We don't have sidewalks in our neighborhood so all I have to do is my driveway (although it's a pretty good size driveway, maybe 30'x50'). But it's all in reach of a 100' extension cord. The corded units are like 1/3rd the price of the battery's, and it doesn't have to stay plugged in year-round to protect the batteries. Most of the snows at this house and under 6".
Hey, do you ever take the wheel off and slide into the back of the MachE? Trying to decide to get something similar and hoping it's easy to transport around.I have all electric lawn equipment and an e-bike. I'm a techy kind of guy. I speak to Google and turn on lights, answer my doors the same way. I rarely use paper and my office is as paperless as you can get! We also have 2 Prius in the driveway. Wife and kids. I still have my Trans Am.
After only reading your first line - those are the scariest looking tooth brushes I've ever seen.Probably the first thing I electrified was my toothbrush.
More recently, when I bought my house the propane company welcomed me to the neighborhood by disconnecting my tank. I'll tell you what, a cold shower at 5:30 in the morning is not the way to my wallet. I called them and they quoted some law, no doubt lobbied through by the propane industry, and said for a marginal fee they would reconnect it with a safety inspection. I was going to reluctantly suck it up and pay that fee- until they said they were going to charge me for the propane that was in the tank that they had already sold to the previous homeowner. I told them to F off and come get their tank. They did, and I went and got an electric water heater. Well, it's been four and a half years of not having central heat. The same day I bought the water heater I bought a couple cords of oak and have never looked back. It doesn't get any more carbon neutral than burning oak to heat the house. Plus I have about 75 oak trees on my property, so I have a couple that fall each year and I cut those up and burn them along with the 3 cords I buy.
Anyway, in addition to my regular gas powered Stihl chainsaw, I have a nice Stihl pole saw for those hard to reach branches. But, this past year I bought two batter powered chainsaws. They don't have a lot of longevity, but they work GREAT for cutting branches up into kindling.
Pics or it didn't happen..
I thought for sure that this grass was supposed to be blue. Instead, it looks like Scotland.