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Originally Posted by thinkxingu
Just picked up a 60V Greenworks for $135. We'll see how it goes. My only real concern is longevity. My Echo blower is over a decade old, Stihl chainsaw about the same. I'm not confident I'll get that time out of a battery...
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Amazon sent me to
Greenworks when I needed a cordless pole saw. At the time, there were only the
40W and the
40W MAX battery models—which are
not interchangeable.
Pleased with its ease of use and apparent quality, I bought a pair of 12-inch chainsaws, a pair of leaf blowers, and a pair of lawn trimmers. Total so far: seven tools and a pair-
each of batteries and chargers. (It helps to shop the sales at Black Friday and Presidents' Day). The manner of chain-tensioning is nearly instantaneous—
ingenious! 
The leaf-blowers aren't very powerful, but probably in line with others in the same power range. The lawn trimmers are tricky to manually reload the trim-string, but
Greenworks makes "string-modules" that snap in—available at extra cost.
Seeing at least one major project ahead, I also bought a
Greenworks "Cart". (They don't call it a "powered wheelbarrow"). It's a little "fiddly" to use, but I guess they didn't want a new customer to be towed into the street!
It could use a limited-slip differential, but carries good-sized loads for about ¾-hour of actual battery use (when new).
A
Greenworks lawn mower takes two
40V MAX batteries, but with no
real lawns, I'll pass on that one.
