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The Ryobi One+ range is hard to beat in breadth of tool available, but it is only a brand of Techtronic.
Ryobi is currently slightly off the pace as other brands are offering brushless versions which will last longer, and do more for a given battery size.
There is also the dilemma as newer, larger battery cells get used in power tool batteries.
Ryobi now have a range of HP tools, (brushless) + batteries, (maybe based upon 2170 rather than 18650 cells), but it will be a while until the entire range of tools is upgraded.Have a flick through the Toolstation catalogue, the Techtronic brand Erbauer offers some of the range of Ryobi but cheaper.
I own the Ryobi (brushed) extending hedge trimmer, (brushed) lawnmower and (newer, brushless) strimmer, a (brushed) reciprocating saw, and a (brushed) small circular saw and a basic 40Nm 2-speed drill. All have paid for themselves. Currently a mixture of 2Ah & 5Ah (old 18650) batteries.
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I had a few bits of the Bosch DIY range before and they were fine. The strimmer felt very light but had decent power even compared to my newer Makita that runs off twin batteries and weighs about 3 times as much. Can't speak for their mowers but if you've just got a nice, even grass lawn then almost anything will do. Our lawn is bumpy as heck, always full of mole hills and partly sloped. I have a Greenworks 40V mower which just about manages the flat part, but can't push it up the slope and I need to swap batteries half way through. Cables would be a nightmare for me as I have trees in the middle of the grass. Looking to upgrade to a Makita DLM532 but it is priiicey, so need to wait for the other one to die really.
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Ryobi stuff comes on sale or deals with a battery/charger pretty often.
I've got a few bits of Ryobi stuff and I think I've got them all at a significant drop from RRP
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Any recommendations for powered gardening equipment? We're moving from rented accommodation, so a lot of the gardening kit we've used previously was the landlord's.
I've decided I'd really like a cordless, battery powered mower (make it easier to mow the lawn without the faff of cables and an extension, avoid the dirty nature of a petrol mower). Looking at recommendations from "Which?", there's a Spear & Jackson one that scores highly at around the £360 mark. But then I started looking at their strimmers and other things like hedge trimmers, and it looks like each one has their own unique batteries that comes with the unit.
This feels annoying to me. From a simplicity perspective I'd like as few batteries and chargers as possible.
So then I started looking at things like Ryobi's One+ range, which seems to fit the bill in terms of being able to have a single set of batteries power everything, but seems like it'll be a decent bit more expensive for a comparative product, somehow.
I'd really love to hear some real life experiences from those with recent experience on this.