Battery Outdoor Power Equipment 2022 edition

After reading Matt's extensive research, I decided to dive into the world of battery powered toys :huggy: (there's room for so many "yo momma" or "yo wife" jokes here)

I bought the EGO 765 blower, the hedge trimmer, and BASE trimmer. Trimmer came with 2.5 battery and I added the 5.0 battery

The 2.5 works best with the blower to dry off vehicles after a wash as I have it over my chest a lot. The 2.5 powered thru drying off the suburban, the driveway (twice), the back porch and portion of the back yard, my wife's car, and my ALMOST made it thru blowing off the little black car. I LOVE how it doesn't seem to lose any power when it's close to death...it just STOPS

A quick switch to the 5.0 and I was back in action. Though, it's much more difficult to hold above my chest for very long.

So far VERY impressed.

I've yet to use the string trimmer or hedge trimmer. That should be this weekend.
 
UTfball68 said:
So who's gonna jump on the electric power washer grenade???
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I'll likely do that as well here at the house. I have the big daddy at the barndo for jeep duty

I figure an electric would be just perfect for foaming cars
 
DSM Turbos said:
I got a buddy that got one for washing dirt bikes before we load up. It’s so so. It’s not that powerful at all. He did get a cheaper one though but I’m mixed in it
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Yeah…I’ve bought a few of the sub-$200 units…decent for knocking dirt off. Probably a max of 1500psi…so not really good for cutting grime.
 
I have a corded PW, that my BIL left at my house. It does ok. As said the power isn't great. It'd be fine to wash cars with, if it had a regular handle. Many of them have a plastic adjustable one vs a gas handle
 
Random follow up on this thread. I have since sold all of the Ego stuff except for the 765 blower. I went back to Milwaukee for the pole saw and string trimmer. And my new favorite Milwaukee attachment is the pole saw style hedge trimmer. You can walk around the yard and trim up the ends of low hanging limbs in seconds without having to cut the entire limb off at the trunk. Plus you can use it with an extension or two to trim stuff back from the eaves and gutters on a house without having to get on a ladder. I've also added a Milwaukee top handle chainsaw, and would really like to add that double battery chainsaw and blower to my collection, but they are still too expensive.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Random follow up on this thread. I have since sold all of the Ego stuff except for the 765 blower. I went back to Milwaukee for the pole saw and string trimmer. And my new favorite Milwaukee attachment is the pole saw style hedge trimmer. You can walk around the yard and trim up the ends of low hanging limbs in seconds without having to cut the entire limb off at the trunk. Plus you can use it with an extension or two to trim stuff back from the eaves and gutters on a house without having to get on a ladder. I've also added a Milwaukee top handle chainsaw, and would really like to add that double battery chainsaw and blower to my collection, but they are still too expensive.
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I’ve been drooling over those double battery units…but can’t justify the cost for the limited use.
 
Found a deal I couldn’t pass up today…
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It’s definitely not light. Feels heavier than my 028/280, but lighter than my 046/460. Chain speed is good, ergonomics are good, scrench and scrench retention are much improved. Will report back once I actually get a chance to use it.
 
jeepinmatt said:
Found a deal I couldn’t pass up today…
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It’s definitely not light. Feels heavier than my 028/280, but lighter than my 046/460. Chain speed is good, ergonomics are good, scrench and scrench retention are much improved. Will report back once I actually get a chance to use it.
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Looking forward to basin lake GC getting “cleaned up” again this year! Lol
 
First test, it’s stout. But after cutting I realized I could have pushed it quite a bit harder. I think I’m gonna be pleased with the power, but gonna also have to get used to the weight being a a lot higher. In my humble opinion, they should have oriented the batteries vertical and dropped them down 2-3” so the weight better mimics the balance of a gasser.


Honestly the 8.0 batteries make it too heavy. I need to see how performance is with a pair of 5.0 batteries, but in order to do that, I need some more time with it and the 8.0s haha. Got an opportunity coming up soon to put it to good use. Will report back.
 
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jeepinmatt said:
First test, it’s stout. But after cutting I realized I could have pushed it quite a bit harder. I think I’m gonna be quite pleased with the power, but gonna also have to get used to the weight being a a lot higher. In my humble opinion, they should have oriented the batteries vertical and dropped them down 2-3” so the weight better mimics the balance of a gasser.


Honestly the 8.0 batteries make it too heavy. I need to see how performance is with a pair of 5.0 batteries, but in order to do that, I need some more time with it and the 8.0s haha. Got an opportunity coming up soon to put it to good use. Will report back.
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Are you saying its ass heavy or just not balanced like a gas saw? If so where or how?
 
R Q said:
Are you saying its ass heavy or just not balanced like a gas saw? If so where or how?
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Both. Ass heavy, and the weight is up high. If I hold my 046/460 at the handle, it’s slightly front heavy with a 25” bar and balanced with a 20”. With this Milwaukee, it’s quite tail heavy. The balance is weird. But I’ve literally only made the two cuts in the video above, so I don’t want to overjudge it until I have time to get used to it. I do love that it pulls like a 60cc saw and is basically silent except for the chain ripping through the wood and a little gear and motor whine.
 
We now have chickens. And chickens poop a lot and don't care if its on the porch or sidewalk. It really bugs me, so I was dragging out the waterhose a couple times a week to clean it all off. But that's a pain to get out and put up all the way around the house from 3 different sources (or one 150ft hose would probably do it, but that also would suck). The waterhose didn't quiet have enough pressure to get off the sticky tar poops, but was close. A pressure washer would be overkill and even more annoying than just the hose. So I did what any good man would...I used it as an excuse to buy a new tool :D

First I bought the Milwaukee M12 Sprayer because it was on sale, had 80psi output, and an adjustable nozzle. But at the end of the day, it didn't have any more power than the water hose. So I started researching and narrowed it down to the Flozone Typhoon at 115psi or the Ego Backpack Sprayer at 350psi. I couldn't find any good videos or demonstrations of the Ego one, but the same was true for the Flozone. I already have Ego batteries, so I decided to just go for it. I figured the 350psi is overrated, but was bound to still be better than 115psi, and as long as it was better than the water hose, it would be a functional improvement in both shatslicing and portability.

Gotta say I'm impressed! It truly is like a portable, low power pressure washer. It cuts through the regular stuff with ease, and gets off the tar poops with a little persistence or allowing to soak for a few minutes. Additionally, it uses way less water to accomplish the task, and the high pressure on the fan nozzle allows you to push most of the water away so things like the wooden porch floor dry off way quicker.


Once I was satisfied with how well it worked on the house stuff, I branched out and tried it on other things haha! It takes the organic stains off of concrete and will even take the black mildewy stuff off of equipment that sits outside.


I'd love to get a 30-45 degree actual pressure washer nozzle on it and see how it does. The pressure should be a bit better with something narrower than the 60 degree applicator nozzle that I'm using. It also comes with an adjustable nozzle, but its a round orifice, so it has to be closed pretty tight to get good pressure and then it isn' a good pattern. A turbo nozzle would be sweet, but I'm not sure it has enough power to spin it and still have a good jetstream.
 
Your chickens run loose/free, and don't get killed by other animals? My wife was wanting chickens, and even with a full large cage with a roof we were worried about them surviving determined persistent wild animals. We have coyotes around us. I had one run within 20ft of me last summer early one morning.
 
My dad lost a medium sized chicken to a black snake. Hawks do a number on them too.
 
I know it would be way more awkward than a backpack sprayer, but we go to ALOT of downhill bike races and there's a surprising number of these being use in the pits with a bucket of water.

On the chicken front, after Helene we had 3 chickens roost in our Leeland's that had chicks and now have 5 "wild" chickens (one rooster and 4 hens). They've been roaming free and roosting in Leelands since Helene and still cluck around fine. They started laying eggs on our welcome mat at the front door so built some boxes for them to lay and they just exist. I've been shocked.
 
NCJeeplover said:
I know it would be way more awkward than a backpack sprayer, but we go to ALOT of downhill bike races and there's a surprising number of these being use in the pits with a bucket of water.
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Yeah, portability was key, otherwise I'd just use the pressure washer. 4 gallons in the backpack is dang heavy, but I can make it all the way around the house and back without refilling and be done in 5-10 minutes.
 
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