Battery-powered tools just might be the trick to prepping outdoor spaces for spring
On 'Fox & Friends,' home improvement expert showcases power tools perfect for springtime prep
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Spring's sunshine may have arrived already, but is your outdoor living space in tip-top shape?
Home improvement and lifestyle expert Skip Bedell joined "Fox & Friends" on Friday morning to share some of his favorite outdoor grooming tools for the new season — and for these, no gasoline is needed.
Bedell showed off the EGO 42’’ ZTR ride-on mower — while his wife took it for a spin on Fox Square. It holds six ARC lithium batteries.
In today's push toward all-electric, starting up a lawnmower with gas and a good crank is increasingly seen as old-fashioned (though plenty of us still do it).
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Many of today's high-quality, affordable machines are now battery-powered, such as EGO’s line of electric power tools, he noted.
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"If you’ve got a gas tool, now it’s like adding insult to injury," he said. "Now you’ve got to go spend big money on the gas for the mower."
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Bedell showed off the EGO 42’’ ZTR ride-on mower — while his wife, Alison, took it for a spin on Fox Square.
It holds six ARC lithium batteries.
One charge is strong enough to mow up to two acres of grass, according to the expert.
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EGO also makes a battery-operated leaf blower and a first-of-its-kind weed whacker. It automatically feeds out more string for wider whacking range.
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Other brands such as Skil and Kobalt also produce electric tools that include push mowers, leaf blowers, power drills and circular saws — which all run on the same battery.
"So a new homeowner who maybe doesn’t have a big budget can, on one battery platform, get all the tools they need to do their DIY projects and mow the lawn," Bedell said.