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I also us Milwaukee M18 tools just bought myself the 18ga brad nailer for Fathers day, but I thick I am getting better service out of them that you are I hope I didn't just jinx myself. I bought an M18 plus hammer drill and broke a bit and when I called Milwaukee the lady asked me a couple of questions and sent me a new one. I probably use my side grinder harder than any M18 I have and it has held up great. I bought the weed Wacker and after about a year I gave my gas powered one to my son.

As a die-hard gearhead it hurt me to acknowledge when my mother moved last year to a townhouse that an electric push mower was the best option for her. It only takes 15 min to cut her lawn and she can go 2-3 times on a charge with a small Ryobi push-mower. It stores nicely in the corner up-right and I don't have to go over there every few months and change the oil, tune-ups or clean the carb because she got bad gas. I don't want to say electric is false advertising, it's great for the suburbanite but doesn't scale up to larger machines required for larger properties. Every person I know who raves about their electric lawn care tools are people who couldn't fix a gas one if they tried. I've bought my entire family nice snowblowers "used" because they weren't properly stored and the local shops in the Chicago suburbs want $175 up-front for diagnostics. They'll sell me a 2yr old $500 blower for $100 and go out and buy an electric. Its easier for them to buy a new battery every few years than learn how to clean & tune a carb. They feel a sense of accomplishment because "they" fixed it with a new battery rather than paying someone to fix a gas engine for them.

and in five years they would probably change the battery style and I would have to throw it all away and start over

This is just too much mathematics for me and based on your initial calculations, gas powered mowers are still more economical in the long run. It is scary to think about the price of the batteries after 5 years...and after 5 years that price at the present time will double in cost after 5 years. IMO, you are better off with gas powered since you are very good in maintaining your equipment. Battery powered mowers are for homeowners who don't like to change oil on their equipment. FWIW, I am still using my JD tractor that I bought in 2001 and is still running strong. Maintaining it is not so expensive either.

Thank you for welcoming me I'm a 42 year old...french-canadian welder.... When I was a teenager my dad use to give me rides on his motorcycle.Sadly my dad died at 63 when I was barely 30. I hadn't started riding yet at that time. Today I ride an adventure bike...a suzuki vstrom650 2021 and I love it. But something in me brought me back to my father's road couch...it was an old venture royal. Found one on facebook lately that has been sitting in a barn since 2018.it's all original with all the plastics intact and all the accesories working.it's a 1986 venture royal XVZ13DS But since it's been sitting in the corner of a garage since 2018 it needs some mechanical love(fluid change..maybe carb clean-up...breaks and other stuff)....like I said I'm a welder...not a mechanic but I'm not an idiot and I know what to do with my hands when I'm being told what to do so I'll get through the simple stuff and I am hoping that this place will be a source of knowledge for me and this project.I expect to keep this bike forever and still ride it in 20 years and see people's reaction to this old machine.🤣 So the project slowly begins