Good luck getting it repaired, there are little to no serviceman in the country and parts are hard to obtain. Your mower could be broke down all season over a failed computer component.
Reading one comment " It would be good to Clean up power from a generator." What??? Thats a waste of money! Ive used dirty power since the 1990's with everything from computers, TV's and more for years. Nothing burned up and still use dirty power! And for many years I never owned a inverter generator. So many people are so caught up with this over rated clean power from a battery bank or ICE generator. Technically a battery bank is not a ICE generator. While the fuel - food these people eat is worse than prison food it's fast food!!! 😂 Hey man save the planet and go green man!!! I already do dood! I run my Honda EU2200i Tri-Fuel Inverter Portable Whisper Quiet Prepper Generator. I only run my green Honda generator on propane its a Green Fuel dood! Tri Fuel means it runs on gasoline, propane or natural gas! Ok Im sure some will say belattery power and solar is cleaner than my generator. More polutants and diesel is used to mine these precious metals to make these disposable batteries than making propane!!! But why? More green man - green money that is to make disposable toxic batteries alot more! Ive had a dirty making power ICE generator since 1993 and still running. I converted it to a green fuel propane too! With go vern ment its definitely about the green deal. The green money in their pockets it always is, has and will continue! I have some solar, battery banks and not that impressed. Its very costly won't last anywhere near as long as my ICE propane generators. Propane you can stock it never goes bad and never looses power like disposable battery banks! And my Honda generator will last a lifetime and they are proven!
Ryobi its ok nothing I buy. When it comes to power tools DeWalt, Mikita, Rigid etc. No Ri o be 4 me! Battery powered stuff will not last a lifetime not even close!
Brushes vs brushless, really. If you're doing big things get the brushless. If you do small projects around the house, brushed works fine. Just a little slower and might need extra prep on your work to overcome the torque and tool construction differences.
You're lucky to have found a transmission for that... I've heard that failures are so common that there's a waiting list for the transmissions/rebuild kits etc. At least through Ford directly. You pay all that money to get late model stuff and then wind up on the side of the road anyway. Good thing you have some skill to take care of it. 👍
Thank you for the great review! I was in the market for a new brushless drill and the home Depot battery kit plus this vacuum sweetened the pot. It arrives next week. I need something for sawdust and wood shavings in my shop, and my wife needed something for kitty litter. It seems like it'll work well. Appreciate it, and best wishes for your family.
Thanks for actually giving a honest & thorough review! You made sure to cover even the smallest details, just decided to get one because of your review brother!
I have the Predator 8750. Bought new 10 years ago. Still running strong using Motor Snorkel tri-fuel adapter. I noticed you turned the generator off while it was under a load. You will ruin it! Unplug everything first!
Pretty sure you cant remove and replace those batteries… and passthrough charging wont do much for you if it isn’t deferred energy load balancing to maintain the lifespan of an already short cyclical use of LiOn/LiPo cells. If you’re going that route- stick with LiFeP04. The older Lithiums like this have power, but not longevity nor replaceability.
It’s the carburetors, for me. Same old 💩 at the start of mowing season, after it sits for x months. Enough. I’ve used electric weed eaters exclusively. For the amount of yard we have, gas would’ve probably been more efficient. But didn’t want that exhaust, etc. if they have similar carb issues, I’d continue to pass on those, as well.
There is a video where some Australian guy is mowing down some grass that looks to be over two feet tall with no problem. I cut some pretty tall grass yesterday with mine and it didn't seem to bog down at all.
The Home Depot $200 deal is back on this model with two 4 amp and 1one 2 amp battery and charger. Just ordered one because of this excellent real world review. I'm subscribing.
IMO, most of Ryobi's bad rap, that I had both seen from people using them years ago, and also read complaints about many times in forums, is a combination of memories from the NiCd era when many brands were disliked once their batteries started to age and become less effective and rapid self-discharge, but also there were the bottom feeders buying the Ryobi (and craftsman, also made by TTI for decades now until the recent SB&D acquisition), Black and Decker, Skill, etc, and those people didn't know how to use NiCd cordless tools. They would run the tool till the battery was nearly drained, tool obviously slowing down, yet they try to keep using it which is a BIG no-no with NiCd tools. The weakest cell in the series would drop to 0V and begin reverse charging and damaging it, then their pack was very weak. A side effect of Li-Ion batteries today is that the same protection circuit needed to keep the packs from becoming a fire hazard, also won't let similarly ignorant users drain them so far as to cause damage. Then there are the silly videos, and I'm not really trying to single out this one, where everything becomes some race between two different tools, as if you'd be on a jobsite all day and whether you're saving 2 seconds per fastener is really doing to matter. However, if you happened to get 25% longer runtime from a brushless tool and don't have to swap and charge batteries as often, that may matter in real world professional use. As far as what can drive the biggest longest lag bolt before choking, meh I don't care. It seems silly to me to pick a 1/4" drive tool for that in the first place, is why 3/8" and larger drive, especially impact wrenches, exist. I am in favor of a tool having as broad an application set as possible, but frankly there is too much overlap where I barely even need an impact driver due to a strong hammer drill, and an impact wrench. That is unless it is a very short/stubby impact driver or a right angle wrench, so it will fit in tight spaces. That doesn't mean I don't use an impact driver as I do have what you're calling the entry level Ryobi in this video, and most often what I'm doing is using one of their drills to make pilot holes and then the impact driver for the fastener, but I could use the drill for both as it makes about 60ft-lbs and above that, I'm again getting into impact wrench territory and probably using a hex head fastener so a socket on the impact wrench is the more direct, lower-torque-loss way to do it, rather than relatively more fragile, and wobbly, 1/4" to 1/4" or to 3/8" adapter bit and then the socket. Essentially, I don't think impact drivers really need to be any more powerful than about 100 ft-lbs. but where they are lacking and some improvement is being made in the industry, is electronic clutches so they don't destroy the fasteners as easily, which helps even more when they are models that spin at the higher RPMs to begin with, and people get the idea it is always a race so they're just leaving it in the highest speed when a multi-speed driver. I am glad that you tested with the 4Ah batteries, but for most uses I have for an impact driver, I'd just pick the lightest battery I have available, one of their 1.x or 2.x Ah and save the larger batteries for tools that need them. I mean if you buy a kit that comes with the smaller packs, I'd never buy less than their 4.0Ah separately.
I may need to get a bigger battery, I purchased the one w/o the battery, brought a ryobi drill and using the 18v 1.5ah that came with the drill, didn't last very long
Sounds like being in a dentist office. I like my little "nearly silent" (not really, but about conversation level) metabo air compressor for 90% of the things where I use a little blower plus some some "compressed air" uses (like topping off my well pressure tanks). Maybe if the blower were cheaper... $50 maybe? $30 definitely.
Does your wife complain/ plan interventions about your tool problem or has she finally given up like mine did? Did I miss your review on the Ryobi hand cultivator or is that the one Ryobi tool you DON'T have lol?
Yes, interventions occurred. My obsession grew stronger, what can I say, I'm obstanent, haha. Also yeah I got the cultivator attachment for the expand it, but I just don't use it....
