scott brown here in today's exciting episode we do a lot of landscaping
makita have given me a christmas present i'm going
to chuck the words ad gifted and like big letters right there they've given me this
and they also gave me his trimmer i'm very grateful by the way it's bloody amazing but
the reason i have these tools is because i need to get on top of this garden i've been living
in an apartment for five years and now i've got a front lawn and a back lawn and i don't
know what to do so in today's exciting episode we're going to tackle it all with battery tools
oh my god that's heavy
it's time to mow the lawns
now safety is paramount i've got my steel toe cap shoes on i've got my full brim hat but
importantly one thing that i'm realizing as i get a little bit older is long sleeve uv
tops doesn't look very cool i bought it for pretty cheap
i don't even know what brand it is but it should protect me sunglasses ems you know all this um the
sun's very intense here in new zealand especially this time of year we're like peak summer it's 26
degrees celsius that doesn't sound like a lot but we have a big hole in the ozone layer above us
and you don't have to be in the sun long before you get completely burnt like 10 minutes now tools
this is the battery chainsaw from hikoki this is borrowed from my friend eva i'll
put her instagram here view into her cookie tools you should follow her on instagram
i've been using this as you can probably tell and um it's been really good
nikita hooked this up with the 40 volt this way the 40 volt xgt hinge trimmer
140 volt battery and then you can trim a whole bunch of hedges that's the other tool now the
key with i'm already feeling it now the key issue that i'm having and jess is having
allergies we're allergic to everything but we don't know what particular things are setting
us off so all the garden is flowering we've got these big overgrown bushes
we've just got things everywhere and it might be a process of elimination so now i have two
fully charged 6 amp batteries let's go figure out how this lawnmower works
what i'm interested in is will the battery powered lawn mower be enough to tackle
this section i think the section's probably around about four to five hundred square meters of grass
and 36 volt battery if you look in here you can see that there's two bays
you can actually put four batteries in it'll use two at a time once you've used
them up if i've got batteries in there it'll switch over to them you just switch this over
so i've got it on two there and let's see how long it lasts
you turn that on i guess oh yeah and then what happens there
oh hey i don't even realize that you don't even have to push it the battery does it
i thought the battery just spun the blade
all right so first step and what is setting off scott and jess's allergies grass let's
start with the grass don't expect any covert in my garden but i do expect a lot of pollen
key piece of information push that in first and that's actually what spins the blade this back one
gets the whole thing moving
you might need to redo this part can't see that sorry
there you have it two six amp batteries one's on one bar and one is on two bars and i did the
whole front lawn i went over parts of it twice because i was unsure about depth i was first i
went quite high and then i realized i could have gone lower so i think in normal conditions when i
haven't let it grow as much as i did two batteries probably would have done it let's look at the back
so in a way i've kind of got two backyards here got this one here
then through this treacherous mess here we have another one
oh man in this yard here where i've cut down a big bush so let's flash
back to when i cut down the big bush with the hukoki chainsaw
it doesn't look like the wires rest it just looks like this is rusted
so this washing line cannot spin around it's like very loud oh hey there you go
romania cut it up more just when i put the chainsaw
one full battery cut all of this that's pretty good wow
this is coming from someone who knows very little about chainsaws but um i like it hmm
there we go we got a little bit left but not much and i entered the bag before at the front
and this is the bag at the back so in the future i'll put all four batteries in and i should be
able to mow all my lawns and that's kind of what i wanted to figure out with this lawnmower
this is like one of those reviews where i'm just happy that i've got it so i can't give
you the nuance you know functionality of the lawnmower it's not something i know anything about
but i know battery tools and now i know that four fully charged six amp batteries will mow my lawns
something wrong with this
listen hey dad should be tell us about the loppers these are shocking somebody can tell
me how to operate them but they go back and forth so the handles come off just like that
careful it's almost whack my mum through this nice product serious product improvement guys
and there's not a brand name
oh this is a piece of quality gear mate safety catches on doesn't move when i move nice weight
good battery power it's a 40 volt mix this is a piece of kit
i love it i'm going to get one of these it's just good put a grunt bit of torque in it
well this heats from on a scale of one to ten i put around about a seven or eight
i like them why not ten out of ten i can't rate anything out of ten out of ten
there you go
everything you need to know about the makita 40 volt head trimmer where's my favorite piece of cut
so
you must be slow to either before disengaging drive belts so this is a courtesy of hypo
so i put ad borrowed here they let me borrow this for a few days for nothing
thank you hypo much appreciate it we're going to chip up all that wood it's a wood chipper and
we're going to put into this green bag this is a this one goes to the green waste unfortunately the
orange one just goes to landfill so it's filled with a mixture of building materials and trees
and this is petra hi guys jess is dead
you enjoying your holiday oh you're great i just don't like that thing so very relaxing
that is what's left of the pile that bag and this scrap of mess here that's a little over full
so much for a long time
so off camera we brought the chipper around here yesterday
and we lessened some of these piles they're obviously still still big piles but uh we turned
some of it into this mulch and the green bag out the front we're going to keep that's filled with
mulch and we'll use that around the garden as well just to cover up all the exposed soil but yeah
since we cut the bush out look at this
a warm glow is able to get through the house and jess is admiring it
bye bye trees
so