Cut Quality - Speed - Value | Testing Greenworks vs My EGO Z6
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2024
- Comparing the Greenworks all-electric Optimus Z 36in mower and backpack blower to my EGO 42in Z6 and 800cfm backpack blower.
Big thanks to my friend Trevor from Green Cellz Electric Lawn Care for bringing the demo equipment out and letting me try everything! Had a great time!
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Thanks Trevor for setting this up for us and bringing out the Greenworks Demo Equipment! Best of luck to you and Green Cellz Lawn Care!
Starting my lawn care business 100% electric and love your videos man!!
Thanks! Good luck and let us know how things go! I loved the learning process. Scary but worth it!
It's missing a cup holder for the 🍺
Love the amber strobes.
Best lawn equipment review if I've ever seen one. Lol! Wish I was out there having fun with y'all!
lol thanks! It was a fun little test, only had the greenworks equipment for a few hours, so just played around!
You guys make me want to go mow my lawn...
Enjoy the mow!
Thanks for the comparison video! I have the green works commercial 60" riding mower and love it! I've saved so much in fuel and maintenance in the past two years. The only issue I've had is one of the three blade motors had a bearing failure. Green works quickly sent me a replacement since it's under warranty. I was able to replace the motor in about an hour. I do want to setup my 18ft enclosed trailer with panels and batteries similar to yours! Appreciate the ideas!
but how much are you paying in charging prices, I know it isn't free.
I dig the comparison!
Thanks! I had fun and figured others would enjoy seeing some of the differences.
Bro is pulling around his $13k electric lawn mower with a $3k mini van.
The greenworks is built more commercial grade as the ego is built residential grade. You can use them either way though.
Nice video. Thanks for the comparison and honest comments. If you can, you might try also comparing to the Kress line of electric lawn equipment - even if it is "red" while being green.
Good suggestion, I should reach out to Kress and see if they would be willing.
Looks like most of the differences are because of the intended end user: consumer versus commercial.
Well said. Can’t wait until commercial electric prices come down to make it more accessible.
They really just need to make prosumer stuff better because stuff like 50 to 65cc gas is pretty mid range and it’s borderline entry level commercial or high end consumer. Greenworks 60v stuff is getting there but it just needs to be weatherproof. They have a 200MPH/800CFM blower that is pretty close to the BR600 and it works great but it just needs to be more rugged. It’s affordable compared to the BB361 just without the commercial grade level. I really want to try the BB361 but I haven’t been able to find it for sale tool only online
You should come up with an economical and repeatable electric setup to sell in states like cali that will soon be majority electric lawn equipment. That’s where you can make money. The people that don’t have the time, knowledge and experience to re-platform
Loved this video. I've used electric since the first Neuton mowers (before so cheap and plastic) and have used greenworks for 10 year or so. Wondered how the ego would compare.
Hey thanks! It was fun testing them!
Awesome video, love your content. just a couple critiques 😁
Both mowers should've either been mulching or side discharging. Mulching is harder on your gear.
The Ego has a "turbo mode" for the drive and blades 😉
That Greenworks blower looks like a beast! 😮
That’s a good point! I do have a mulching plug on the EGO I normally use but took it off for the video. This wasn’t meant to be a serious comparison. I was very impressed with the greenworks blower! It was definitely more noisy and not nearly as comfortable as the EGO, but clearly more powerful.
@@solarpunksteve yeah, I took the plastic side flap off and 90% of the time I mulch, but come spring time, I may have to side throw. Uses less battery and it looks cleaner when it's too long.
I love using all Ego commercially. Overheads are almost zero 🤣
The cost of the ego batteries needs to come down. They are insanely expensive.
Right‽
They seem to be, like a lot of the tool companies, jacking up the price to have them be their profit-making device. When you can often get a tool + battery for the same price as a battery, it becomes clear what they are doing.
I want to see the ego compared to the greenworks 60 inch with 18kwh haha
Those blowers are quieter then gas but the sound is more annoying.
Ego batteries are expensive but theyre not that far off regular non- brand name packs of similar capacity for say e bikes.
I see it has direct drive (blade attached directly to motors). Is there durability concerns with this? I.e., hitting a root? Don't most gas mowers run a belt?
Yeah both mowers have direct drive for the blades. The advantages are you can’t have a stick fly up onto the deck and get stuck in the belts or the belt snap etc. If you do hit a large root or something you’ll likely bend the blades, but the blade spindles don’t have any gears, so the electric motor likely will sense an over load and just shut off. I’ve had this happen once on the EGO when I hit a large log under some thick grass. Just cleared the log and the motor spun right back up.
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I don't think you showed it but I might have just missed it, does the Greenworks have removable batteries like the Ego? You showed the batteries for the Greenworks blower but I just wasn't sure if the mower used the same batteries or not.
Good question, I forgot to show that. The greenworks mower did not have removable. They are fixed. It’s about 8kWh in the model we tested. About 3.3kWh in my EGO.
@@solarpunksteve awesome, thanks. Being able to remove the batteries and share them with other equipment is a bit of a selling point for the Ego. At least for smaller companies.
Very true, and that was my initial thought when I picked out my equipment.
What is the cutting width of that Greenworks mower? It doesn't look like it is more than 36". For us Commercial landscape guys, I would love to see a mowing width comparison for those two mowers. Also - I will reply to yours tomorrow.
That Greenworks Optimus Z was indeed a 36in, but they have riders and standers that go all the way up to 60in I believe. And I know Mean Green Mowers has lots of models in various sizes too.
My little EGO Z6 is 42in, but they have a 52in model with a welded deck, and a commercial mower hopefully coming soon.
No rush Jason! Look forward to hearing back.
I would personally rather sit and ride. I'm also not a professional landscaper. I assume there is some benefit to the standing ones? I see tons of professional places use them.
There are numerous benefits. It’s actually better on your back and less fatiguing to,be on a stand on because your knees naturally act as shock absorbers. They are shorter so you can fit more mowers on a given length trailer. The visibility is vastly better for tight spaces and they are more maneuverable. It’s far easier to hop on and off in case you need to remove debris. It’s better on hills due to a typically better centered, lower CG. It’s much much easier to bail if things go sideways, you just step off. I own both a Z turn and a Stand on and it’s no comparison.
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Commercial vs. residential. Not fair.
Isn’t Green Works 80 V compared to 56 V
I am pretty sure that’s the commercial side tho
The commercial is 82v. They also have a dual volt 48v/24v lineup but most of the actual commercial tools don’t use it. The 60v primarily and 80v on the consumer/prosumer side is the best if you wanted to use it semi professionally though. I run a lot of tools on the 60v. Two backpacks, two weed trimmers
Let's see if I understand this: Greenworks - Chinese company AND tax credit funded by U.S. Taxpayers? Oh, if only Elon would produce mowers.
id rather take out a loan for the toro than buy a greenwork product. Ill end up coming out ahead in a few years.
Toro battery stuff is made by Globe tools aka Greenworks lol
@@electric6877I've had 6 greenwork battery failures and 3 mowers all fail and repaired. They don't qa their shit or care.
5 hours of cutting per day? Thats not commercial.
That’s their lowest battery size for their “commercial” mowers at 8kWh, the others have 24kWh and larger deck sizes. I know some people that are running theirs for two days before recharging, it all just depends on your use case. If you’re mowing college campuses or golf courses, probably not going to get away with using electric, but a bunch of small yards in a neighborhood? Might be enough. In my case I just keep my EGO equipment topped up with my onboard solar charging, but I could likely get the same number of yards done with the greenworks without charging during the day.
Better work fast before the batteries die or have 25 batteries on hand
FOR FUCK SAKE... LEAVE THE SPIDERWORTS... WE AR EIN A 6TH MASS EXTINCTION.
Would love to, but this isn’t my property, not to mention the county will get called if I don’t mow it consistently. I let things grow as much as possible where possible but unfortunately our system isn’t designed to promote native fauna or conservation practices. I do what I can with the clients I have by encouraging and providing options for native landscaping and better lawn care/resource management practices.
As a side note, I have lots of spiderwort growing on my own property! They love it out here and come back every year, same as this property you see me mowing.