I've done the corded electric mower, it didn't seem too bad pushing it but it was dragging the thing around trees and corners of the house and getting caught on landscaping that bugged me so much about it. If I had a yard with no trees, shrubs, and the house was a simple square with an outlet on each side, I'd be cool with it but I am plugged into the garage with a 150' extension cord to get the sides of the house or I'd have to pull window screens to fish a cord out a window.
My solution: Turn the corded mower into a battery powered one, I proved to myself last year that it would run, just never got around to giving it a full run around the yard. Seemed like a decent use of Insight NiMh sticks that fail at being good enough in an Insight but still pump out enough amps for other stuff though.
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