Yes, you read that correct! We are now mowing our lawn with our solar power. Sure beats gas! As I have told you before our solar system is pretty small. Yet it is large enough to mow our lawn. Now our lawn is not one of those small squares of grass that some homes have. We have a very large lawn and my husband also mows the strip along our horses’ paddock where the grass can touch our solar fence line. So he mows quite a bit. What is so great about the Neuton Electric Lawn Mower though is that we are charging it with our electrical system which as you know, is a off the grid solar system! We are charging it from the solar panels and the sun! Can’t beat that can you?
My husband really thought ahead when he ordered the lawn mower and purchased four extra batteries so he could be charging a battery while he was out mowing with a fresh one. The Neuton is so easy to use that changing the batteries takes him just the time it takes to walk in the house and take a fresh one out and put the used one on the charger. Maybe a minute…..he’s a fast walker!
Many of the other electric mowers have to be plugged in and if that is the case then you can’t be using it while it gets charged! Not a good idea. Another hinderance with those are that the cord can get in your way and maybe even get mowed over….connected to the electric plug.
Since the price of gas has gone up again it has become very important to save every penny you can and using our solar array to mow our lawn has become very handy for us. Plus the fact that my poor husband was inhaling all those gasoline fumes all the time he was mowing. We have never used a rototiller in our garden for that very reason. So why should he be using it on the lawn?
Our horses get so excited when he gets the Neuton out because he gives them the grass that accummulates in the bag catcher. Now he has always given them the grass clippings before…….but he raked it up for them instead of having the bag catcher. So that is pretty handy. But the big change is that the clippings now are not polluted with the gasoline fumes and must be much better for them. They seem to agree.
Looks like something from the future, doesn’t it? Well the truth is that the future has arrived! And we are trying to do our part with using less and simple living. Our lawn mower does a really good job and our lawn looks beautiful. It looks like a park. I highly recommend this lawn mower and even if you have to hook up to your utility grid, I suppose it would still be cheaper than using gasoline. Nothing beats living with your own solar system though…..unless you are using hydro power and wind power also! Now that would be a blessing to be getting power from all three power sources!
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