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    Is electric the way to go now?

    yes. And they're fantastic.
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    frankly, they don't know about cheap gas vs good gas (just run good gas, it won't kill you, around here it's Shell or Costco) and simply running it out at the end of the season. The local mower repair place puts a huge sticker on every mower that goes out: don't use grocery store gas, use Shell.
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    100% this. If all you know is the cheap Chinese stuff, that's a problem. If you don't want to acknowledge anything better because "that costs more!!!", that's a problem. The whole world doesn't suck.
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    POS Tesla Semi-Trucks Breaking Down

    Quantity does not equal quality. That you're happy being in a crowd that follows Kilmer, and in fact defend that by saying "but I'm in a crowd!", says WAY more about you than you realize.
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    See, that's the problem. Joe Sixpack has champagne tastes but wants to pay for a can of Bud. He's ripe for the fooling. Me, I'm too poor to buy cheap. Some stuff costs big money for a reason. Find it, buy once, cry once, and move on.
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    Is that the only definition of who needs equipment? The guy that has a small lawn but wants to keep it neat--does he have to have all the same equipment that your mythical "guy who has to mow 10 acres/snow blow a 200 foot driveway/cut 6 cords of wood" has? Or is he allowed to have entirely...
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    This right here. It's 100% a correct statement. Toro is a mower first, foremost, and primarily. Those guys built the mower they know how to build. Then they replaced the fuming spinny thing with a non-fuming spinny thing. The big advantage is, they're using all the same parts and...
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    This right here. It's 100% a correct statement. Toro is a mower first, foremost, and primarily. Those guys built the mower they know how to build. Then they replaced the fuming spinny thing with a non-fuming spinny thing. The big advantage is, they're using all the same parts and...
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    But the homeowner who runs a mower 30 times in a season for 40 minutes each--he's the target for battery.
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    Is electric the way to go now?

    But the cheap Chinese internal combustion crap has been doing the same thing for many many years. No repair parts available. Disposable. Buy new. That being said, Toro does a great job with battery mower. I wouldn't do the tool guys--Ryobi, etc. Or Ego. But Toro made a mower first, and...
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    HRR216 walk behind- hard to pull backwards

    yes, back in 2016 when a friend sold us his 2007 Odyssey fully loaded--first year with the VCM--I immediately got the disabler. Worked fantastic, easy to install, easy to tune. I knew to do this because back in 2007 or so I knew a guy who had bought the all-new Accord but griped endlessly...
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    HRR216 walk behind- hard to pull backwards

    thanks. Yes, I had an HRX. Toros do cut great, from what I can tell. I will say, all the battery electric manufacturers are using "efficiency" blades (Toro calls it the "economy" blade) out of the box--that is, "it spins and has sharp edges but the goal is longer battery life over cut...
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    New Ryobi 80 volt lithium-ion battery ZTR Riding Mowers

    Earlier this year, because the Toro walk behind battery mower I wanted wasn't becoming available in a timely fashion, I bought a Ryobi top of the line walk behind battery mower. Ryobi may know batteries, and may know how to make hand tools, but they don't know diddly squat about making...
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    Winter storage

    Disagree on storing them on charge. Store them inside (or the equivalent) during winter, at about a 50% charge--off the charger.
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    HRR216 walk behind- hard to pull backwards

    Clearly a design flaw. Or a bad, short-term business decision that pushed the problem out to the customer after he made the purchase decision based partially on price. Honda would no doubt say they differ on this; they will tell you, "read your owner's manual. We tell you to take these...
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    HRX217 autochoke question

    Brand new HRX217K5HYAA here. Replaced a Snapper w/Briggs engine with autochoke, and never had a problem with that. I expect the technology is mature. But I have a question: why does my throttle lever go past the Fast setting and into what, on other models, is marked as Choke? I understand...
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