It seems that Hart Tools, now a Walmart-exclusive tool brand, launched a new cordless riding mower (H80RM01).
Thank you to Cody for the news tip!
Hart says that this is a 30″ mower, and it’s powered by an internal 80V [Max] battery.
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The new Hart cordless riding mower looks… cozy. It’s not small, it’s “compact.”
Hart says that it has 3 brushless motors and the “power to mow thick grass with ease.”
They also say:
This model is quiet to operate so integrated LED lights are a great feature for mowing in darker conditions.
It looks like the mower has non-removable batteries, and comes with a special charging cable. It’s said to have an “under 2 hours” charging time.
Hart’s promotional video is sure to show that the mower features built-in easy-access storage.
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Such as for keeping your smartphone close at hand.
The mower’s compact size can fit through a 42″ gate.
Hart says you can “choose how you want to cut with 3-in-1 bagging (sold separately), mulching, and side discharge capabilities.”
Key Features
- Cuts “up to 1 acre” per charge
- Charges in under 2 hours
- Single point height adjustment
- LED headlight
- 3 brushless motors
- 30″ cutting width
- “Power of gas”
- Cup/smartphone holder
- Optional 3-in-1 functionality with bagger (sold separately)
- Optional bagger boost (sold separately) for unclogging grass
Price: $3900
Discussion
Is it a good or bad thing that this new Hart cordless mower appears to the size of a child’s Power Wheels riding toy?
On one hand, it looks to have a very small footprint. On the other hand, I’d expect more than a 30″ cutting capacity for a cordless mower.
Hart also doesn’t exactly emphasize its small storage size.
Home Depot has a Ryobi cordless riding mower with 4 brushless motors and 42″ cutting deck, and it’s priced at $4,399.
Hart and Ryobi are both TTI brands, meaning they’re parts of the same company.
So how and why did Hart launch a 30″ mower at $3,900 when Ryobi has a 42″ zero-turn mower for $4,399?
Hart says that their mower can last for up to 1 acre of mowing. Ryobi says that their mower can last for up to 3 acres of mowing.
While $499 is a lot of money, why buy the Hart for $3,900 when the $4,399 Ryobi looks to be far more capable?
The Ryobi has 4 motors instead of 3, a 40% larger cutting path (42″ vs 30″), and is said to be capable of mowing 3X greater acreage (up to 3 acres vs. up to 1 acre) per battery charge. This suggests that the Ryobi has a bigger battery.
Am I the only one that thinks the Hart riding mower looks unexpectedly small and maybe even cramped?
The Ryobi looks much more comfortably sized.
EGO’s 42″ cordless zero-turn riding mower ($5,499 at Lowe’s) also looks much more comfortable.
Hart say their new mower has 3-in-1 functionality, but the bagger is sold separately. They haven’t disclosed how much it will cost.
Maybe $3,900 is the launch price, and then Walmart will drop it back a little with a “rollback.”
It this a late April Fools Day joke? If so, you got me good.
In all seriousness, I can appreciate the appeal for a smaller-sized riding mower. But, Hart doesn’t mention its small footprint or storage size in any of their marketing materials so far, suggesting that wasn’t a design motivation for them.
The Ryobi has a 40% wider cutting path, 4 motors instead of 3, and it can mow up to 3 acres on a single charge compared to the Hart’s “up to 1 acre” claim. The Ryobi costs 12.8% more than the Hart.
I am thoroughly unimpressed. The mower’s small size, meager specs, and plasticky appearance has me wondering if this is really the best Hart can do.
Jared
Ha! Tiny. That’s a riding mower for yards that really only beed a push mower.
All these battery mowers are expensive for their level of capability – but no way would I spend nearly $4000 on something as small as the Hart. Crazy how much of a step down that is from the Ryobi.
Stuart
Maybe they did that on purpose, so that they don’t compete with themselves. Or, Walmart might have had specific criteria to adhere to.
It’s unclear, but the way the plastic panels are bolted on, it makes me wonder if Hart ships the mower in ready-to-assemble packaging.
Jared
I can see that a small mower would fit a niche – but that’s sure a lot of money for not a lot of mower.
THoff999
Just bought a Ryobi 30” electric rider for $2700. Looks a lot like this Hart mower.
Matt the Hoople
To me, the whole point of a riding mover is to get a wider cut path. Significantly wider like 42” and up. To me the benefit is not that it allows me to be lazy (no digs on someone with a disability or a breathing condition that may not be able to use a walk behind mower) but to allow me to reduce mowing time of my yard from just over an hour to under 30 minutes. 30” is not significantly wider than my 22” walk behind and is significantly narrower than my 42” rider. Additionally, I bet the mowing speed of the Hart is going to be significantly slower than my gas powered rider.
I could maybe see this for someone that, for the above mentioned reasons, cannot use a push mower but has a smallish yard. Still, the price seems steep. My rider was inherited from my father who suffered from COPD and was in that situation.
Still the price seems pretty steep. Especially for an off brand with questionable longevity of batteries and parts/service availability.
LG
Thank you for taking the needs of those with disabilities into consideration. My late father also had COPD, and the old lawn tractor with a trailer behind allowed him mobility around the yard past what his lungs would let him do on foot.
The Hart looks kinda dinky, but for someone elderly or with a disability, it might be the right fit.
John
Any disabled person with enough money to throw away on this POS could afford to pay for a lawn service. This product is simply niche, and doesn’t fit any actual necessary purpose. It’s truly odd.
Jamis
Yeah, it’s a niche market area, but that market isn’t all that small. This sized mower fits the suburban lawn quite nicely. i.e. there are five Ryobi 30″-38″ electric riders on my street of 16 homes. The lawns are 10K sq.ft to 16K sq.ft. and these mowers handle the work quite nicely. Every owner is retired and has some sort of physical limitation (not disabled, no handicapped tag on their mirrors) that makes a rider preferable to a walk behind and cheaper than a lawn service, which there are several of on the street. These mowers also pull lawn tools like carts, thatchers, rollers, & areators, and plow snow. Granted these mowers are a lot less expensive than the Hart model, but the market is the same.
Jamis
We have an 8 month mowing season here. Lawn services are charging $30 per mow now for these lawns. They mow every week, more often in the spring. Lawns with irrigation get mowed weekly even in the late summer/fall. That’s nearly $1K a year. My electric rider costs less than $0.26/hr. to operate with virtually no maintenance and it takes me less than 45 minutes to mow my yard. Why would I use a lawn service unless I absolutely couldn’t get on a rider?
NANCY
Agree. Not everyone buys into bigger is better. Sometimes all you need is good enough & of course Walmart will drop the price. It’s what they do. I always add stuff to my online cart then tap save for later. The app alerts me when the price drops.
James
If it said 1 acre it more like 1/2 per charge
I have the hart 40v 6ah self propelled mower it saids up to 1/2 acre on one battery
But it doesn’t completely finish my 1/5 of acre when using self propelled
it will finish yard if I push it the whole time
I alway have to charge it for while then finish my yard if I use self propelled
But it does a good job
And I like not having mess with get push mower started
The ride mower would be good but not for $4000 you get a good gas ride mower for less
MFC
If they had it priced in the mid to low 2s then it would be competitive, but as it stands I hope nobody buys it.
MFC
I actually bought five 75 and 100ah Ryobis for $1100 each from a liquidation store. They felt like go carts and had zero shock absorption, but they were pretty cool. I was able to get $18-$2200 each for them and that felt like a good deal. The Hart doesn’t seem as capable and at twice the price, seems like they’re going to be putting them “on-sale” after a bit to bring them to a more realistic price point.
Stuart
When Hart first launched their Walmart-exclusive line, they claimed they wouldn’t be doing “rollbacks,” but Hart and Walmart seem to have backpedaled on that. Still, unless or until they do put these on sale with a “rollback,” I’d consider the price at face value.
Jamis
A rollback from $3,900 to be price competitive with the Ryobi 30″ rider ($2,599) would be awfully extreme. Don’t see that happening.
NANCY
The Ryobi uses a lead acid battery. Hart is lithium.
Larry
It has been rolled back to $2999 at this time.
Rock Hound
I don’t see a problem with it as a product, but maybe with how it is being marketed. This would be a fantastic mower for someone with a small-medium lawn that has mobility issues. I currently own a property that is 2 acres, but only about 1/4 of it is lawn and I mow it with a Makita push style cordless electric lawn mower. I could easily see a product like it being in my future when I get to the age where pushing a mower is not easy for me.
LG
This.
Rog
What is this?? A mower for ants?!
Bad Zoolander jokes aside, Walmart obviously thinks there’s a market for this thing but uh, I’m not sure who’s buying it.
JoeM
I’m sorry… I can’t help but think “Awww… Power Wheels made a Lawnmower so kids can Pretend to be helping with the lawn work at home!”
It’s Walmart… It’s Hart… It’s cheap, badly designed, and not a serious tool. I boycott Walmart for a good reason, and it’s throw-away stuff like this that reinforces my views of the company’s bad reputation.
Quinton
I have over $3000 in Hart power and lawn tools, with 0 issues so far. I was initially excited to see the riding mower until I seen the list price. The price of tools may be “cheap” but they are serious tools and for someone that uses them daily they have lasted longer now than all of my dewalt and Milwaukee tools for a fraction of the price. Hard to give an opinion on something you know nothing about lol.
Bill
The phrase, “cordless riding mower,” is interesting. Has anyone ever made a corded riding mower?
TomD
You could combine one of those old bumper cars (the ones that have a mesh of wires above them) with a mower, install wires above your lawn, and go to town! Well, not exactly, you couldn’t leave your yard, but still.
Collin
TTI really fell off. TTI went from pioneering how to squeeze every last drop of performance from comparatively low voltage platforms ( often at the expense of battery health) to creating new high-voltage platforms with a snap of the finger.
Ryobi suddenly exploded from 18 and 40V and 48V to 18, 40, and 80V.
Hart suddenly exploded from 20 and 40V to 20, 40, and 80V
Milwaukee quietly expanded from 18 to 36V.
What happened to squeezing insane amperages out of batteries and pushing batteries and motors to the point of thermal cutoff to compete with higher-voltage class tools?
Did TTI finally have an epiphany?
This reminds me of an Ego whitepaper that explained why 40V and 80V platforms are sub-optimal for OPE, and why Ego stuck with the “Goldilocks” solution of a 56V platform. In essence: 40V can’t easily hit the high power requirements of certain OPE tools and 80V platforms are bulky and overpowered for the majority of landscaping needs.
It looks like the Ego whitepaper is exactly on the money: here we are, with TTI’s bifurcation of its OPE tools into 40 and 80V classes. 40V for the lower power tools like leaf blowers, 80V for the riding lawn mowers, because 40V can’t do riding lawn mowers well, and the briefcase-sized 80V battery pack isn’t exactly well-suited for a handheld leaf blower. Meanwhile, Ego manages to power everything from leaf blowers to zero-turns with 56V batteries, without forcing customers to buy into other voltage platform batteries that won’t work with any other tool.
Jamis
Just to point out that the EGO rider requires 4 of those 56 volt 10 ahr. batteries to run which cost $1,800 and are good for only 1,000 charge cycles according to EGO.
Collin
You are exactly correct, the Ego requires batteries that work in other Ego tools. And you are correct in pointing out that the Ego lithium-ion batteries have the same 1000 charge cycle lifespan as all other current lithium-ion cylindrical cell batteries.
The Ego doesn’t necessarily require 10 Ah batteries to run, it just needs a combination of batteries so that their amp-hours add up to at least 15 Ah. So you could run 6 of the 2.5 Ah batteries if you so desired, or more likely, a mix of 5 Ah and 2.5 Ah batteries that are commonly packaged with blowers, trimmers, hedge clippers, etc.
Meanwhile, the Ryobi requires at least one 80-volt pack that is good for nothing else but its current lithium mowers, and cannot run on any combination of existing 40 volt batteries.
Collin
In other thoughts, it’s really disappointing to see that TTI is now in the phase of badge engineering. I hope that this badge engineering doesn’t also mean a period of stagnation for TTI. Badge engineering certainly meant a long period of stagnation with DeWalt.
For the last several years, DeWalt was on a rampage with badge engineering and alchemy, transforming old yellow and black tools into red and white Craftsman tools. DeWalt clearly stagnated until very recently. Now, DeWalt is back with a menace–just look at the absolute avalanche of new DeWalt tools in every voltage platform that has been released in the last year or so. 12V impact wrenches that outcompete the previous industry standard. 20V impact drivers and wrenches that, again, outcompete the previous industry stalwarts. Finally, a line of DeWalt electric ratchets. New FlexVolt 12″ miter. New 20″ FV chainsaw. I haven’t even gotten to the PowerStack battery technology–an industry first. It’s been a while since DeWalt and “industry-first” belonged in a sentence together.
It looks like TTI is content to flood the market with more lucrative things such as plastic garage organizers, impact driver bits, multitool accessories, plastic stoarge bins, while ignoring holes in its product line, such as cordless dust extractors. Basically every other tool company has at least one cordless dust extractor at this point. Even Husqvarna has a line of cordless dust extractors. I guess that acquiring Hoover didn’t really give TTI the talent needed to design OSHA-compliant dust extractors but only enough talent to design yet another smattering of Ryobi Dyson-knockoffs.
Big Richard
I really wish the new FlexVolt miter saw would be a 10″. They already have the 2x60V 12″ saw, so it seems odd they are making a 60v 12″ saw as well. Unless they are planning on doing something like a 20v Flexvolt Advantage 10″ model as well, then it would make perfect sense.
MM
Correct me if I’m mistaken, but doesn’t Dewalt have a 10″ model that’s only sold in Europe, sort of like the Alligator Saw DCS397 or the “Wall Chaser”?
I can see how we don’t get the Alligator Saw in the US since the kind of materials it excels at cutting aren’t commonly used here. But one would think that a 10″ Flexvolt miter saw would sell like mad.
Big Richard
They do, the DCS727. It is a single FlexVolt 10″ version of the 2x60v 12″ DHS790 we have in the states. It is probably the best tool they never offered in the NA market.
They also have the rail forward 8 1/2″ DCS777 and 10″ DCS778 saws, which were a bit different form factor.
Collin
I would assume that Hart products are built to Wal-Mart specs instead of a design that would otherwise evolve naturally. Wal-Mart wants a riding lawn mower, wants to be able to fit x number on a shipping container, wants a non-removable battery because their market research dictates, etc. TTI then designs a product around those requirements. Hardly anyone knows that TTI builds Hart (I forgot even) so there’s minimal risk to reputation damage if the final product is subpar.
Doesn’t excuse the rest of the issues you highlight, but would at least explain this clunker.
(also, super rare to find someone else with the same spelling of Collin)
Frank D
Those prices are just crazy in my book. What justifies those prices?
And who can afford such weak little mowers at those prices?
We’re not talking $1000 riding mowers …
Jaycob P.
Is it really any smaller than any of the other rear engine riders that have been built for the last 60+ years? The size seems like an odd criticism considering a smaller 30 inch rider isn’t anything new or unique to Hart.
Big Richard
That was my thought, looks to be the same size as the 30in rear engine mowers that have been around for decades. Also seems comparable in size to other 30in battery mowers, like the Ryobi and Cub Cadet.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-48V-Brushless-30-in-50-Ah-Battery-Electric-Rear-Engine-Riding-Mower-RY48130/312460582
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Cub-Cadet-30-in-56-Volt-MAX-30-Ah-Battery-Lithium-Ion-Electric-Drive-Cordless-Riding-Lawn-Tractor-with-Mulch-Kit-Included-CC30E/318303233
The problem is the price. The Ryobi is likely cheaper because of its lead-acid batteries, but the Cub Cadet is lithium ion, and still almost $1k less. The Cub has a 1500Wh battery, so for the price of the Hart I have to assume it is a bigger battery? A bigger battery that charges in half the time, 2hrs vs the Cub’s 4hrs
MM
30 inch riders have been a thing for many years, yes. I remember mowing my family’s lawn with a pushmower as a teenager and being envious of my neighbor’s 30-inch Troy Bilt ride-on. But as long as I can remember they’ve always been a fairly small segment of the market. As long as I can remember whenever I’ve seen a bunch of riding mowers lined up out front of Builder’s Square, Lowes, Home Depot, etc, the vast majority of them are in the 40-50 something inch range. 30 inchers aren’t new but they’re not all that common.
But yes, I agree completely the price is the real kicker. I’d expect a 30″ model from a low-end brand like Hart to cost a lot less than what they’re asking. Maybe Stuart is right and they’ll do a “rollback” or whatever, but right now the Ryobi or the Cub Cadet looks like a much smarter buy. Heck with Ryobi you could either go with the much less expensive 30 inch model or you could spend a little more money and get the much more capable 42 inch.
MM
Oh, and there’s also this 38-inch 48V Ryobi with 100ah batt for $2999 and it seems to have fantastic reviews.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-48V-Brushless-38-in-100-Ah-Battery-Electric-Rear-Engine-Riding-Lawn-Mower-RY48111/300422546
Mike
I bought a old 30in MTD Yardbug years ago thinking it would be great..
30in rider is for older people who can’t walk behind their mower, but the yard is too small for a big zero turn.
The biggest issue with these is the turning radius was like 2.5x its cutting width so you end up driving around in circles trying to get everything cut.
Mat
Ryobi has a 30” mower at $2599 at HD. This pricing makes no sense.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/RYOBI-48V-Brushless-30-in-50-Ah-Battery-Electric-Rear-Engine-Riding-Mower-RY48130/312460582
MM
Yes, this thing is tiny. I agree with the other comments here that this really seems like something for small yards which ordinarily would be done with a push mower, or for people with mobility issues. The narrow width would be handy for getting into tight spots, but I don’t see anyone buying this mower for that feature alone. If one needs a riding mower it’s usually because one has to mow a lot of area, and in that case a 30″ wide mower doesn’t sound like a good choice. Someone with a large riding mower might want a second smaller machine for tight areas, but $4k is an awful lot of money for that when a walk-behind for a 10th of the price would do that job. And I certainly don’t see any pro landscapers putting this on their truck to supplement the big ZTRs.
I can’t imagine it being very powerful either. If it can fully charge in 2 hours that is likely not a very big battery pack.
Nathan
a few companies make a smaller sub 35 inch mower. Snapper probably the most famous and first one. My dad has one and I hate it but only when it’s time to change the oil. Otherwise it’s OK.
Sizing though – that bit about fitting through a gate is exactly why my dad has his 30 inch snapper. A few others made one similar and if I recall Ryobi’s first electric rider mower was also a 30 inch job and is what I thought of when I saw this.
Price is way too high though. at 1400 or so dollars I’d consider one to replace his snapper. at 1600 it’s a touch out of spec. at 2000 no way – there are gas ones that can buy alot of gas for that difference in price.
TomD
I wonder if this is because of expectations that states like California will outright ban gas-powered riding lawnmowers (not sure if the recent ban covered those or not).
Hon Cho
I believe California’s ban on small gas engines under 25hp starts in 2024. While there are lots of benefits to battery powered OPE, prices for the more power hungry tools like riding mowers, snowblowers, tillers and such are going to be painful. I haven’t seen a cordless tiller yet and nothing cordless that could replace something like. BCS tractor. I predict prices for quality used ICE powered equipment in California are going to skyrocket in the coming years. Entrepreneurs will import legal used ICE equipment from the rest of the country to sell in California.
MM
It’s not just the prices that are going to be bad, it’s the charging time. When people start making OPE that has a large enough battery to truly replace a 25hp tier piece of power equipment it’s going to take days to charge on a normal wall outlet. Some kind of high power charger that gets wired into 240 is a must if they expect contractors and professional users to switch to electric.
There’s been a strong market for older OPE already and it will only get stronger. For example, for several years now a couple arborists I know have been complaining that the newer Stihl gas OPE models perform worse than older ones, and that this is due to emissions regulations. For example, a current model climbing saw, the 201T, costs about $700 new. However, the older model, the 200T is greatly preferred, and people will pay double that or more for one in good condition.
Jamis
My Ryobi RM480 rider takes about 4 times the run time to fully charge on a standard 120 volt, 15 amp. outlet on those old fashioned SLA/AGM batteries which are rated for 1,500-1,700 charges. After 44 months and 325 charges, it is 16 times less expensive to run than my neighbors’ ICE riders. It costs less than $0.26 per hour to run and has no maintenance costs other than a spare set of blades and two cans of deck release spray.
MM
When you mentioned the rider takes 4 times to charge compared to its run time that’s exactly the problem that I’m getting at. That kind of time ratio works perfectly fine for a homeowner because most of the time the mower is off. But a professional landscape contractor that needs to work all day now has a problem. If he runs his mower for 8 hours during the day, he doesn’t have 32 hours to charge it overnight before he has to head out for work again the next morning.
The batteries must charge faster than they run in order for this technology to be viable for professional use. The cost isn’t the issue, time is.
Jamis
The current resolution to charging times is the way some of the bike/scooter systems work. More batteries in chargers than devices. When a battery is discharged, you swap it for a fresh one. I have a snowblower that uses two 40 volt batteries, but I have multiple sets of batteries. With three sets and two rapid chargers,I can remove snow non-stop for hours on end. With my trimmer/edger and all of those batteries, I could edge the entire neighborhood without waiting for a battery to be charged. I could see a commercial user with multiple batteries and chargers in the trailer running off of the towing truck. Not cheap initially, but the long term break even point is easily attainable. This is the methodology that the Mean Green system uses.
MM
That solution works some of the time with our current size OPE. But as battery tech starts replacing larger and larger IC engines the wall socket will start to become a hard bottleneck. At some point more powerful chargers which will require a 240V connection will need to be created, just as they are with electric cars today. No matter how many batteries you own it is a losing battle if you cannot recharge at least as much power as you consume in a day’s work.
It’s actually very simple math. One wall outlet can support about two horsepower tops. Once a tool gets more powerful than that it necessarily takes longer to charge than to run. For most OPE, smaller riding mowers, etc, that’s not a big deal really, by using multiple batteries charging at once you can start to overcome that deficiency. But what happens when we’re talking about a 40hp commercial mower? A tow-behind chipper? This is by no means an insurmountable problem, and I’m far from being opposed to electric OPE. I am just pointing out that charging seems to be an area where things are lagging behind, and it won’t be long before someone needs to step up and solve that problem.
Jamis
Yes, this OPE electrification will likely be bottom up developed. Batteries are increasing in power and charging speed as time rapidly goes by. Ryobi is already on it second gen. 40 volt batteries and the newer fan cooled chargers are speeding the process up. The new chargers do an ahr. in ten minutes. Battery chemistry is evolving at a rather rapid pace and as all of this progresses, larger and larger machines will also evolve. There are multiple brands of construction earth moving equipment that are battery powered, so scaling has already started. Most of the residential lawn care services I see in my neighborhood could do it now, if it weren’t for the up front cost. Maybe they will shift to the handheld equipment first and then transition to the rolling hardware later. The estate/campus sized jobs will come later.
bblhed
The 30″ very similar Ryobi mower is just over $2,700 at home Depot. Unless Walmart is going to mow the lawn for 5 seasons this is not a good buy at all.
JoeR
Gotta have it. With the front yard covered in artificial turf to save on H2O here on Left Coast, this is perfect for backyard. Matte Italian blood red finish, a few prancing horse decals, swap out the actual steering wheel for a proper digital F1 wheel with paddle shifters and I’m ready to do hot laps in the back yard. Affordable fun, safe for the enviro and more dollars in SoCal Edison’s coffers. Who could ask for more.
Oh, I’ll call NetFlix to see if they’ll cover it for next – “Formula Lawn – Drive to Survive”. Love it-every other word will be the f-bomb just like the series.
Fyrfytr998
I will give it to Hart. They are certainly not shy about swinging for the fences. That TTI heritage has them outpacing Kobalt as a competitor to big brother Ryobi for the DIY crowd.
Ryan
That price makes it DOA. Arkansas brainiacs at work.
Jamis
Apples and oranges comparison. Ryobi has a 30″ cordless rider that sells for $2,599 with the same performance specifications. The only real difference is the Ryobi uses SLA/AGM batteries rated for 2,000 charge cycles
Jamis
Ryobi also has a 30″ 0turn rider with joystick control and 80 volt lithium batteries for $4,000. Still a better comparison than the Ryobi 42″ 0turn rider.
Jamis
Who services Hart mowers? The nearest Ryobi service center is a mile and a half from my home. The nearest EGO service center is 70 miles away and I live in the fifth largest metropolitan area in my state.
Jamis
Found a Hart service shop in my metropolitan area. It’s an electric tool store that sells/services all brands of tools that tradesmen use.
Bob Adkins
Yay, cup holders!
Really, I was never able to keep a cup in my cup holder. At 6-8mph, every time I hit a bump, the cup would launch and the contents would fly all over me and my mower.😒
Charles Miller
The Hart will only go about 4m/h. Are you sure you are doing 6-8 m/h?
Charles Miller
I have now used my Hart riding mower for almost a month and I love it. I have about a half acre yard and it can do it in about 40% of the battery capacity. I like the small size because I have limited storage. The Hart has the same battery pack as the Ryobi zero turn, two 80v 10ah. They can be removed with no problem and weigh maybe 5 lbs apiece. I can recharge the batteries in about an hour or less. Everything that I have seen about my mower is quality. I do not miss zero turn. With reverse mowing feature and a tight turning radius, I have no problem with my hard to get to spaces.
I will take this Hart any day over the Ryobi, particularly the unit with 4 car batteries that weigh 200lbs.
Kim
I am in the middle of a problem with Hart. Walmart offered the ride on for 2999 so I bought it but it came damaged so I refused delivery is now sitting at the dock waiting to go back because Hart won’t communicate with anyone so I can neither get my refund from Walmart, nor do I have a lawnmower. Don’t do business with Hart!
James
It’s small so it can be used on smaller yards and fit through small gates.
My yard is small, could easily be mowed with a push mower, but I’m disabled so I use a riding mower. I think the Hart 30 inch mower will be my next mower. I’ve been using a Weed Eater 30 inch gas powered riding mower for twelve years and I really like it, but parts are now hard to get so I’m considering buying the Hart mower soon.
Larry
I have a 1/4 acre yard that is too big for a conventional mower and too small for a big rider. This would be just right in size but at $3900 is overpriced, when I can get the 42″ Ryobi for only $500 more.
I just checked the Wal-Mart web site and the price has dropped to $2999 which has me thinking…
Harry
Perfect for my yard and shed. I couldn’t justify anything larger. Fits in my garage with 2 cars. Used to a 21 in cut so 30 in is quite nice. Hopefully it will be as reliable as my eGo tools.