Ego zero steer mower review

[Grumpycat]

My stupid grass is still growing too.

Mowed the leaves last week. Mowed more grass under the leaves than expected. Now no leaves but grass continues to grow.

Is like Wilson Forest Land says on YouTube, "Bears are why we can't have nice things." Nuisance grass keeps growing when it is supposed to stop for the winter!

 

[WinterDeere]

My stupid grass is still growing too.

Alabama? I'd think it normal that your grass keeps growing most of the year, but maybe that's just based on our cool season grasses, which you probably don't grow down there.

Our grass thrives on days with temperatures varying 40 - 60F, but will still grow reasonably well in 30-50F. We normally quit right about now, but we will sometimes have to mow right up to Christmas on warmer years. Once even on New Year's day, when we had a freakishly warm (like almost 70F) Christmas, a few years back.

 

[shooterdon]

Another user of Gator blades. Yes, they create a lot of dust but it is better than raking or blowing leaves or making twice as many passes to mulch using regular blades.

 

[EddieWalker]

Alabama? I'd think it normal that your grass keeps growing most of the year, but maybe that's just based on our cool season grasses, which you probably don't grow down there.

Our grass thrives on days with temperatures varying 40 - 60F, but will still grow reasonably well in 30-50F. We normally quit right about now, but we will sometimes have to mow right up to Christmas on warmer years. Once even on New Year's day, when we had a freakishly warm (like almost 70F) Christmas, a few years back.

A lot of people here in East Texas will through out Rye Grass in Winter to have a nice green lawn until it warms up again. They Rye will die once the temps warm up, and then the native grass will take over.

The Rye Grass is beautiful, easy to plant, and about .50 cents a pound at most stores.

When I've done it, I might mow it once. Usually it takes off, and then stalls out. If you cut it once, that's all it will need.

 

[WinterDeere]

A lot of people here in East Texas will through out Rye Grass in Winter to have a nice green lawn until it warms up again. They Rye will die once the temps warm up, and then the native grass will take over.

The Rye Grass is beautiful, easy to plant, and about .50 cents a pound at most stores.

When I've done it, I might mow it once. Usually it takes off, and then stalls out. If you cut it once, that's all it will need.

That's cool, never would have thought of that. Around here, annual rye is used only as a mix with other seeds intended for planting on bare soil, as it can put up shoots in 2-3 days, which helps maintain soil stability while other seeds take longer to germinate. Same as your location, it dies in our summer heat, or if it survives that... our winter cold.

I once heard that, of the major US cities, Boston has the widest spread between typical summer highs and winter lows. Others have refuted that, and I really don't know the truth, only what I've heard reported elsewhere. Personally, I'd think the Philly northern 'burbs must be up there, as we see everything from -5 to +105 F, albeit not every year.

 

[Shenandoah MF1760]

The batteries are a concern for me.

I didn't get a ZT, just a regular push mower as a test for the house in town. I didn't get an E-Go because they're 100% a Chinese company. And yeah, while the one I bought was made in China at least some money went somewhere else.

It came with 2 batteries and a charger.

The marketing blurb on the box claims that it was perfect for 3/4 acre yards. Our yard is just over a 1/4 acre and with the house and drive the lawn is probably 1/8 of an acre if you're being generous.

Maybe they mean that you can utilize the mower on a 3/4 acre lawn all the way up to when the warranty expires because I certainly can't completely finish mowing my yard with just the two batteries provided.

It does charge the batteries relatively fast, but not fast enough to fully charge one before running the remaining one down.

The owner's manual should probably state that sitting and drinking a beer (or two or ...) will allow enough time for the 1st battery to charge.

Unless you're in Texas and its hot, so forget even starting to charge the battery until it cools down.

So yeah, I have a 3rd battery and a second charger.

I'm still not fully sold on the concept. Everything about it is plastic and I feel like I'm pushing an adult-sized Fisher-Price lawn mower.

 

[EddieWalker]

What brand did you get? Who did you buy it from?

 

[Grumpycat]

Alabama? I'd think it normal that your grass keeps growing most of the year, but maybe that's just based on our cool season grasses, which you probably don't grow down there.

I think I have a patch of Fescue growing among my Zoysia and/or Bermuda grass.

 

[Gem99ultra]

Is Fescue a bad thing for Winter coverage?
I just bought a 50# bag of what I thought was Bermuda yesterday but got Fescue. I'm undecided as to whether to take it back, or give it a try.

 

[WinterDeere]

I think I have a patch of Fescue growing among my Zoysia and/or Bermuda grass.

Tall Fescue is the predominant species around here. It seems to be the only thing that survives both the 4-8 weeks of heat and drought we get most summers, and cold and snow we get most winters.

Our winter cold and snow has probably always been very inconsistent, but maybe even more-so than usual, the last 30 years. We'll get several years in a row with arctic blasts pulling us down into single digits overnight, occasionally even below zero, and then we'll have a few years in a row of very mild winters with almost no snow. Our summers aren't perfectly consistent either, in fact we'll have an occasional year when the grass never even browns out more than a week in July. But hot summers do seem to be more consistent than cold winters, these days.