We got a kobalt mower last year. Its great. We have an acre with large beds so the lawn is broken into sections. One is the back yard hill. Mower with power assist does fine.
We had yard service for nearly 30 years. They would come when yard was wet and their mowers got bigger and bigger. They were compacting the shaded areas. Sometimes DH breaks mowing into 2 or 3 days or just does front and side in morning and backyard later.
I have several Ryobi battery tools for maintenance and bought more for church garden and DD/SIL. They are great for my limited arm strength. I never could do pull cords.
Thank you - I am also a section mower, glad to know I'm not the only one! My battery mower will do most of the front or most of the back with one charge. The higher the grass, the higher the speed, the less I can get through.
I will not mow wet grass. I get heavy dew, so there is no early mowing for me, even tho this is a very quiet mower (yay). Grew up with a next door neighbor that fired up his mower every Sunday at 7 am. I would not do that to anyone.
Too many days past 90, I am almost exclusively shade mowing. Nobody can see the back yard, so I keep the front up and deal with the back as I get to it.
Pull cords an issue for me, too. The other push mower requires someone with much longer arms than I have, but sometimes I could get it by shoving the mower away from me as I try to pull the cord. It would exhaust me to get the damned thing going. I hope some day that people 5'5" and under get some consideration. We do chores and drive cars and sit on couches, too! Many trimmers are almost as tall as I am. True of the E Go. The strap is what makes that usable for me, I can position for leverage.
