Hi all....

Not sure where to post this so will try here. Hope you
don't mind.

I'm in market for new lawn mower. I know I don't want
to go back a gas powered unit.

I also want something LIGHT..... so am looking at a
corded electric unit such as in link

http://tinyurl.com/ggohw

However I need something that I can take to the small
cemetery where my parents are buried to mow around
their graves. Not much area to mow

Do you think I could use an inverter and jump start
battery power pack to power this mower off grid to do
this?

wrote:
Hi all....

Not sure where to post this so will try here. Hope you
don't mind.

I'm in market for new lawn mower. I know I don't want
to go back a gas powered unit.

I also want something LIGHT..... so am looking at a
corded electric unit such as in link

http://tinyurl.com/ggohw

However I need something that I can take to the small
cemetery where my parents are buried to mow around
their graves. Not much area to mow

Do you think I could use an inverter and jump start
battery power pack to power this mower off grid to do
this?

Look for a rechargeable electric. With battery technology such that it
is, you should get a reasonable performance (for an electric mower)
from one.

For example... a quick Google search found this one - I am sure there
are others -

http://www.blackanddecker.com/Produc...ProductID=2500

"Randy" wrote:

Look for a rechargeable electric. With battery technology such that it
is, you should get a reasonable performance (for an electric mower)
from one.

Not what I want to do

integrated battery makes unit too heavy

wrote...

Hi all....

Not sure where to post this so will try here. Hope you
don't mind.

I'm in market for new lawn mower. I know I don't want
to go back a gas powered unit.

I also want something LIGHT..... so am looking at a
corded electric unit such as in link

http://tinyurl.com/ggohw

However I need something that I can take to the small
cemetery where my parents are buried to mow around
their graves. Not much area to mow

Do you think I could use an inverter and jump start
battery power pack to power this mower off grid to do
this?

Sounds doubtful to me. You need 120 AC at 12 amps (plus more, I bet, as
the mower powers up from each stop). That's one heck of an inverter and
battery pack that'd be needed.

Craig

In article , wrote:

However I need something that I can take to the small
cemetery where my parents are buried to mow around
their graves. Not much area to mow

Seems to me that the cemetery should be taking care of that anyway, but if for
some reason they're not -- for an area that small, a cordless electric weed
trimmer would seem to be the most practical.

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

(Doug Miller) wrote:

Seems to me that the cemetery should be taking care of that anyway, but if for
some reason they're not -- for an area that small, a cordless electric weed
trimmer would seem to be the most practical.

They do mow it but sometime sit goes awhile before they
do and it gets long

Get a push reel mower. The don't require any fuel or electricity and
are very light. I have one and I can easily push it up a 45 degree
incline.

On 30 Jun 2006 12:47:39 -0700, wrote:

Get a push reel mower. The don't require any fuel or electricity and
are very light. I have one and I can easily push it up a 45 degree
incline.

Great idea.


(Wonder how long it would take to cut two and a half acres?)

said:

Hi all....

Not sure where to post this so will try here. Hope you
don't mind.

I'm in market for new lawn mower. I know I don't want
to go back a gas powered unit.

I also want something LIGHT..... so am looking at a
corded electric unit such as in link

Consider the Neuton:
http://www.drpower.com/CSTM_Neuton_Home.aspx

The battery is removable. Once the battery is out the mower is
very light. Would not be a problem to load up the mower and battery
separately.

I am very pleased with mine. Smaller than any of my previous mowers
but easier to push and a lot quieter. So I walk a bit farther while mowing.

--
Pat K. ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

(Pat Kiewicz) wrote:

Consider the Neuton:
http://www.drpower.com/CSTM_Neuton_Home.aspx

Can you run it without the bagger on back of it?

I don't want to bag any clippings see?

writes:

Do you think I could use an inverter and jump start
battery power pack to power this mower off grid to do
this?

I'm not familiar with the mower you showed but the AC-powered mower I
have has a DC motor. (I'm all too familiar with this because the
rectifier blows frequently.) If you had enough batteries in series you
wouldn't need an inverter for such a mower.

We have a battery-powered mower too. (It's the only one we use these
days.) I'd be tempted to go the other direction and get a used
battery-powered mower with dead batteries (like I did) and then use an
AC to DC converter (transformer + rectifier) to power it from the mains.
Then it would be simple to power it from a battery (even through a
cable).

--kyler

said:

(Pat Kiewicz) wrote:

Consider the Neuton:
http://www.drpower.com/CSTM_Neuton_Home.aspx

Can you run it without the bagger on back of it?

I got the mulching kit with it. I never bag.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

(Pat Kiewicz) wrote:


Consider the Neuton:
http://www.drpower.com/CSTM_Neuton_Home.aspx

The battery is removable. Once the battery is out the mower is
very light. Would not be a problem to load up the mower and battery
separately.

What size unit above did you get?

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:21:52 -0500, someone wrote:


Do you think I could use an inverter and jump start
battery power pack to power this mower off grid to do
this?

From your follow-on posts, you sure do sound picky?

How many minutes of mowing do you actually need to do the work you
want to do? You'd need to lug a big battery out to the cemetary if it
was very many.

How close can you get your vehicle to the work area? I know various
contractors who run inverters off their vehicles to run things like
circular saws short term. If you can't get close enought to run off
the vehicle, then you'd be lugging a heavy battery, and you don't seem
to like to have a heavy thing to carry....



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