Although I learned more years ago than makes me comfortable that things are seldom what they appear to be, this time around it is what it is. Let's wrap up this weed-whacker thing and move along.
With the new weed-whacker, WYSIWYG. Or maybe WYSIWTBGY. What You See Is What The Battery Gives You. And what each battery gives you is maybe ten minutes, and that's me being generous.
So, for now at least, my weed-whacker evaluation has come to a conclusion. Which is as follows...
With a fully loaded battery, it works just as well as any gas-powered whacker out there. If you're going to do more than twenty minutes of whacking(remember, you get two batteries, but use one at a time), I'd have to recommend sticking with gas and walking right on past battery power. Like all else in life, it's all about compromise, about trading off.
With batteries, what you don't have to deal with is whacker that won't start no matter how many times you pull, yank, and jerk.
What you also don't have to deal with is mixing gas and oil, and storing gas and oil, and getting gas and oil all over you, then smelling like gas and oil for most of the weekend. But our mower is still gas-powered, so it's probably not a break even deal.
I'll keep on whacking. Any further developments, you'll be the first to know.
