No noxious gas emissions-- electric mower $75 at Home Depot

Local HD has an electric mower for $75 down from $199.Sorry I didn't get the brand as I thought it would be on the HD website but it isn't.

SKU 937-624

They had several NIB.I'm guessing it is a last year's model so it is a HUGE YMMV.

Not for me but if you have a small yard it just might work.

Yep, for a small yard or someone without a garage/shed to store it in.

Electric mowers are notoriously underpowered so be aware of that...but for a small lawn that you can keep on top of (don't let it grow for 3 weeks) it should suffice.

I had a black and decker wimpy 6.5 amp mower and really liked it for what it was. The thing only weighed 35 pounds. Keep the blade sharpened and cut a reasonable sized yard with few things to go around and get the cord tangled in and you will be happy with an electric.
Also keep an eye on the amp rating. You will probably want more than 6.5 amps in what model you choose.

I also had a cordless and it was not fun to use and cost me a good bit in maintenance. $150 for battery replacement and a new charger ($50) over the two years I had it.

this was a 12 amp 18" cut homelite mower at my HD

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDispla...

nsdp said: owlchemist said: no noxious gas emissions at the site of the mower, but dont forget... electricity doesnt come out of thin air, it has to be produced by burning something or boiling water with nuclear energy. dont be so naive.

Apparently you don't keep up with how dirty small gasoline engines are. They produce more NOx than a dirty diesel in a bus. Add unburned hydrocarbons and spilled/evaporated gasoline/oil and it is an Ozone special. Air cooled and the efficiency is not very good either. Your gasoline lawn mower is about as polluting as 43 new cars. You might check the facts. So unless you choose a reel mower there is no 0 pollution solution. Electric isn't great but a lot cleaner than the gasoline unit you use.

Agreed. Small engines, especially 2-stroke varieties are terrible polluters ... but until someone comes up with a cleaner substitute (like my Lehr propane trimmer) people will continue to buy what works (and is cheap).

As for the OP's electric solution ... it's a good idea ... for my St. Augustine grass to poop on. My grass would just laugh at this thing. It eats steel blades as an afterthought.

My electric works fine. Bought it for $20 used at a yard sale, mow ~2000sq ft about once a month (bermuda grass in AZ). Been using it for about 3 years with no issues or maintenance. I believe its a 12A black and Decker. Used a Craftsman 10A before that for several years that I had pulled out of a neighbors bulk trash. It was about 20 years old, and was pretty beat up but still did the job fine. For me dealing with the cord is much preferred over handling and storing gasoline, not to mention the smell, maintenance and emissions. I also have a push mower that I use when I have time (and remember to mow before the grass gets too tall).

Whether electrics are as good as gas or not, gas mowers are incredibly dirty. A significant part of this comes from splashing fuel around while storing and filling, causing evaporation of VOCs. The rest is from the motors themselves being very dirty compared to larger emissions controlled engines. Its estimated that about 5% of all air pollution nation wide comes from gas lawn mowers. In urban areas the local ratio is much higher. Electric mowers are not pollution free, but they are much, much better. Its estimated that mowing for one hour with a gas mower is equivalent to the pollution generated by driving about 350 miles in a car. Mowing an hour with a 12A electric mower would use ~1.5kWh, equivalent to driving about a mile.

I don't know the particular one being advertised (tho $75 may be a great deal even if it's a smaller version than the one I have). I use a Black & Decker/Craftsman (I think it's Craftsman when sold at Sears or Orchard, and B&D at Home Depot) corded mower that I have found to be perfect for my yard (about 1/3 acre). As with any tool, you need to match capacity to the job at hand. Some of the smaller/lower amperage models might be more appropriate for smaller yards.

FWIW, here's the link to the one I use:

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_07137051000P

owlchemist said: nsdp said: owlchemist said: no noxious gas emissions at the site of the mower, but dont forget... electricity doesnt come out of thin air, it has to be produced by burning something or boiling water with nuclear energy. dont be so naive.

Apparently you don't keep up with how dirty small gasoline engines are. They produce more NOx than a dirty diesel in a bus. Add unburned hydrocarbons and spilled/evaporated gasoline/oil and it is an Ozone special. Air cooled and the efficiency is not very good either. Your gasoline lawn mower is about as polluting as 43 new cars. You might check the facts. So unless you choose a reel mower there is no 0 pollution solution. Electric isn't great but a lot cleaner than the gasoline unit you use.

Not to get too far off topic here, but you may want to get your facts straight from EPA instead of letting someone spoon feed you. Since the "facts" about EPA from your left leaning website cant be found anywhere, the closest I found was here: EPA site on lawnmowers

Gas powered mowers emit noise and air pollution. Almost 600 million gallons of gas are used in the U.S. for lawn mowers, and because car emission standards don’t apply to them, mowers emit as much pollution in one hour as 40 late model cars or one new car driving 350 miles.

Lets compare... EPA says forty old cars or ONE NEW car driven 350 miles... your website says "EPA Says" 43 NEW cars being driven 12,000 miles. hmm....

calm down sparky. You might want to understand what you are reading before flaming people, "late model" generally means cars that are LESS than 5 years old. I know the EPA sight is confusing, but it means that running a gas mower for one hour produces about the same air pollution as driving one new car 350 miles OR running 40 "newer" (late model) cars for an hour. If that's not bad enough, you can add in the over 9 million gallons of gas spilled each year while filling gas tools.

Why is the other site "left leaning"? Are you saying a Republican can't care about the environment?

Gas mowers in Calif are required to have catalytic converters to make the air cleaner.

I got an electric mower because I got tired of having issues with gasoline motors -- no annual maintenance, no keeping gas and oil on hand, etc. We love ours, but my father hates it - always tells us we should buy a gas mower whenever he's in town. We've owned our electric for four years with zero problems.

electric is nice in that you can just hang it on your wall.

owlchemist said: no noxious gas emissions at the site of the mower, but dont forget... electricity doesnt come out of thin air, it has to be produced by burning something or boiling water with nuclear energy. dont be so naive.

Go Planet!!!

Katzmandu - your comment is moderately funny - but with your avatar, it is hilarious!

All the discussion about the virtues and vices of electric mowers aside, has anyone besides the OP come across this deal?