I’ve been thinking I needed to buy a new lawnmower. Couple of my boys had bought electric lawn equipment and they were very proud of the EGo brand. I used their leaf blowers and I was impressed. When they all lived in Georgetown and had regular sized yards they could mow them without stopping to charge the battery.

The reviews had good things to say about EGo riding mowers so a couple of Saturdays ago I went to Leander at the Lowe’s Store to look one over. After about two hours of wheeling and dealing they figured out they had a mower but no batteries for it. The folks there seemed a little befuddled as to what happened to the batteries. The model I choose, was a zero turn mower that has a steering wheel instead of the two long handles. It was the first time I had seen that. I took to that concept, because trying the mow and also drink my coffee was near impossible if you’re also trying to sip coffee.

Seeing that I really had my heart set on one of those mowers the fellow at Lowe’s looked up on the computer and found where they had one over in Hutto at a sister store.

Took out over there and after about another two hours I had a deal made and was ready to load it on my trailer and head to Bertram to try it out.

These things come with 4 – 12Ah batteries, but has a place to add to more batteries making it to where you could mow dang near this end of Burnet County before stopping to charge it. But not being a fool with my money, I decided I wouldn’t buy the extra 2 batteries at least until I saw how things were going. The extra set of batteries are $1,000. Now you see where I was getting cautious.

They start looking for the batteries and can’t find any. But as luck would have it, they found four 10 Ah (that stands for Amp hour – meaning how long they’ll run before need to be recharged)

That would give me a total of 40 Ah instead of 48, as was advertised. To help get me out the door they decided to add 2 more 7.5 Ah batteries to go in the empty slots giving me a total 55 Ah of run time. All this sounded fine. I was actually get more than advertised.

We got all the batteries in it and loaded it on the trailer. The indicator showed that we would needed charge it up more once home before undertaking the maiden voyage of mowing with it. Which was fine. This mower buying had me worn completely out and I was going to need a nap before the grass cutter go underway anyhow.

I’ll cut to the chase on this battery charging. Out of the 6 batteries I came home with, only one of the 7.5 Ah was not a defective battery. That wasn’t going to get much mowing done. My son Ron, had another 7.5 and a 2.5 from his other yard equipment that we dropped in (I know it’s a miracle that you came swap and mix those batteries around like that)

By doing all that I was able to get my yard mowed. BTW – I never did get my nap.

Then I started in on Lowe’s to get me all the right batteries to. To date I’ve spent countless hours on the phone and I’ve made 2 trips back to Hutto, Texas to speak to them in person. They have no idea how to resolve this issue and the Manager that should be able to purchase about $2000 worth of replacement batteries has a real bad habit of never being there. It appears to me that Lowe’s and EGo don’t have a real strong partnering deal going on.

But the good news is I’m suppose to hear from the Manager today and he’s going to work it all out. I’m really excited.

Luckily I bought the extended warranty. I think this is going to end up being a continual nightmare. But it sure runs great on the limited amount of battery power I currently have.

I’ve got to go. I need to pour myself a cup of coffee and head out to mow a little this early Saturday morning. Which I can do without waking anyone up. It’s really that quiet!!!!