Sodo
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It depends who you are talking to. If you are taking to people with no experience with electric, talk gas. They might be the perfect candidate to switch over to electric, especially if they're not a professional user. But it's not your job to do so.
If you talk to people with electric tools, well, they obviously don't use it for a half a day much less a whole day, so there's nothing good to say about gas tools. Gas tools would be way too much trouble for someone who doesn't need what gas does better. For that person and their usage, what gas does better isn't much of a benefit over what electric tools do just fine. And 'those people' probably don't know how to 'manage' a gas motor. Mixing gas etc. What if it doesn't start? They're dead in the water. They have to drive to a mechanic, drop it off, pay the bill.
I have both types of course, for many years, and I know when one is better than the other. I have to say I use electric about 90% of the time because none of my work is 'professional'. I do a lot of 'stuff'. I can see both gas and battery tools on the shelf, and my hand just goes towards the electric. That says something. But I use Makita tools and have lots of batteries (all the same). I cut down and disposed of a 90ft redwood tree, 100% with electric (some 120vAC), because I couldn[t make noise. Many aspects would have been faster with gas saw, but I had the time.
If you talk to people with electric tools, well, they obviously don't use it for a half a day much less a whole day, so there's nothing good to say about gas tools. Gas tools would be way too much trouble for someone who doesn't need what gas does better. For that person and their usage, what gas does better isn't much of a benefit over what electric tools do just fine. And 'those people' probably don't know how to 'manage' a gas motor. Mixing gas etc. What if it doesn't start? They're dead in the water. They have to drive to a mechanic, drop it off, pay the bill.
I have both types of course, for many years, and I know when one is better than the other. I have to say I use electric about 90% of the time because none of my work is 'professional'. I do a lot of 'stuff'. I can see both gas and battery tools on the shelf, and my hand just goes towards the electric. That says something. But I use Makita tools and have lots of batteries (all the same). I cut down and disposed of a 90ft redwood tree, 100% with electric (some 120vAC), because I couldn[t make noise. Many aspects would have been faster with gas saw, but I had the time.
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