hey guys welcome to the channel so a couple months ago i decided to switch my lawn mowing to
uh electric i sold my gas lawn mower off and bought an electric one because it was
on slick deals for like 200 bucks i don't have much yard out here as you can see most
of his weed whack in the front yard is the only place i actually cut grass so today i'm
gonna unbox this thing that i bought charge the batteries and see if it works it's been about
five months since i bought this thing so it's just been sitting here in my shed all this time
so i got here is this greenworks electric mower it's the 40 watt version
it's been sitting in there so long it had a couple of big old palmetto bug roaches in here
i was crawling around when i opened it so i let them find their way out of here first so
looks like when it comes there you get your bag your little shooter on the side there the thing
is the charger right here the bigger box you have six the 40 watt charger and it comes with
the two batteries right here in these boxes so i'll have to charge those up before i use it
overall i i chose this one over comparable ones that were around the same price because
i think this one had the 21 inch cutting blade yeah it was a 21 inch version that
when it comes to lawn mowers one or two inches pretty makes a pretty big difference i wanted
something comparable to what i had on the gas one i think my gas phone it was a briggs and stratton
from lowe's that was also a 21 inch so you know i wanted something comparable to that
so there you have it pretty simple assembly i had to find these knobs they would they hit them
inside that battery compartment but overall pretty easy assembly once you get out of the box it's got
this one lever looks like seven different height adjustments so you get just one lever and there's
another mechanism on that side that adjusts the front so that makes it easier than most of the
gas ones where you have independent levels front and rear so the battery charger is one at a
time charging so about to let this baby charge overnight and then mess with it in the morning
we got the up here looks like you know your regular on off pedal or handle here
and then you got looks like this is this must be your your start button right here so your holding
start button and then your go button right there i don't know if this is this self-propelled hmm
i don't know if it's self-propelled or not so i'll figure that out later one thing is in here you
got that so if you're not using the i guess the rear bag you just have that plug in there i think
that's what it's for i gotta read the instructions to see if i take that thing out but that thing
comes out this little handle thing right there and then you can see the inside the cutting
surface so you got that and then inside one here where if you're if you're going to mulch
and not use it then you put on that little clip right there that instead of this cover
yep just snap it on when you don't
and then this comes right on off just clips right in so i have to remove that thing
cutting blade looks like found my roaches down there you guys are still hanging out down there
they'll probably be gone by tomorrow so one of the things i was noticing too when i was messing with
this so this thing folds away pretty easily with that with these this is a quick release so you
turn it you kind of hold it like that and you fold it up and then this one you just unscrew
those um they don't go all the way because they have a second thread right here and then you can
pop that and then it folds back into the way it came out of the box i'll show you right now
folds back nicely like that and then you can stack it up
or however you need to i think you could stack it back this way backwards
so yeah it can store away pretty neatly in a corner versus a gas one so that that's a big
advantage there because i have a not that much room in that [ __ ] i'm throwing these babies in
inside this thing let me see this is the battery compartment so both batteries just slide in right
there which it says is a double battery but i don't see the second battery hole doesn't have
any contact lens so what the heck why would you have two batteries if you don't do that what is
this thing i don't know what that is so one of the other reasons back when i was researching
this thing i bought this was it's a brushless so the motor is a brushless motor so that's
probably one of the reasons why i chose this one over some of the comparable brands and
models because they didn't have brushless motors so that's very important the brushless motors
usually they don't use brushes they kind of use a magnetic levitation without the brushes and
it reduced drag on the motor so the batteries of more efficient use less power less energy
the key i looked in the instructions so this is a safety key so if you're not going to use the
it's basically a few so you pull it out so no one inadvertently pulls it and starts it like
kids or something or if you're not working if you're working on you want to pull that
out safely just pull the battery out but but that's that's what that is a safety key
so anyways um i'll let this babies charge and i'll mess with it in the morning
so i let these babies charge overnight so when the indicator on here basically it
when it's charging it's red when it's full the battery's full is green that's pretty simple so
it clips in so you gotta clip the back like you're clipping it into the thing and then pop it out
right there pretty easy pop in pop out with a clip
so both of these are full right now and i'm gonna go try to cut the grass with
them
so that was my first run with this thing it wasn't bad i had to figure out how to
start it but it looks like the instructions are right there
it tells you how to start you bet you hold down that button for two seconds and then you pull back
but overall it feels a lot weaker but i've been used to mowing with the gas mower for all these
years so using an electric one lighter is not self-propelled but you know it runs pretty quiet
and smooth i'll see how it does uh over the years and i don't have much yard so it's a pretty quick
five minute mow for me up here and not much in the back the rest of it's gonna be just weed whacking
overall i like it for 200 bucks it works it runs on one battery at a time so the other compartment
in there is just for storage of the battery once it runs low i probably will never have to use two
batteries on any of my mows anyways with the size of the yard i have so thanks for watching this
quick video on this lawnmower i just got uh if you like this type of content you probably won't
get much of it from me because i mostly do car content but anyway i'll see you guys next time
you