RYOBI Lawn Mower: 5 Reasons to Get an Electric Lawn Mower For Your Yard!
I’ve been a die-hard RYOBI outdoor tools fan since I started teaming up with them several years ago. One of my favorite products has always been the RYOBI lawn mower (the electric lawn mower, might I add), and for a good reason: when we moved into this old 1970’s home back in 2010, my husband bought a clunker of a gas-powered lawn mower that I could never use.
I couldn’t quite muster up enough strength to pull the doggone cord and push the required buttons (that little bulb-thingy). I don’t know what all the parts are called. You know, that cord thingy. Is that a throttle…? Okay–tangent. Back to the story.
What I can tell you is that after that first awkward attempt, I left grass cutting my husband.
And I’ll be honest with you, I’m not the type of woman that is known to “leave” anything to a man.
Thankfully, I got my hands on the last three models of RYOBI 40V electric lawn mowers, which have been a game-changer for being able to take care of my grass (or, in my case, my weeds, since we have very little grass).
Let’s talk about the 5 reasons why, if you’re a homeowner, you definitely need to dump your gas-powered and get an RYOBI electric lawn mower, too!
Reasons You Should Buy a RYOBI Electric Lawn Mower
Okay, I’m being facetious here (and I do include myself in this population!). But the truth is that gas-powered lawn mowers require pulling a starter cord. If you’ve ever tried it, you know how it feels like you’re about to pull your arm off. It’s like a comedy show for the neighbors to witness, am I right?
If you’re lacking upper arm and body, or you’ve got a shoulder problem or gripping issues, this could be really difficult.
Because RYOBI’s lawn mowers are 40V battery-powered, starting their lawn mowers are only a 2-step process (like their newest mower): pull the lime green handle and then push the “BLADE” button. BOOM, you’re up and running in literally 3 seconds. No struggling. No ripping your arm out of your socket. It’s that easy. And makes me look like less of a clown in front of unsuspecting neighbors.
Reason #2: It’s Self-Propelled
The latest thing in electric lawn mowers is something called “self-propelled.” This basically means that instead of you “heaving and ho’ing” your lawn mower around your yard, you’re letting it do the grunt work for you. You’re simply guiding it.
The previous model of RYOBI electric lawn mowers (which you can still buy from The Home Depot), had this helpful dial that allowed you to tell the lawn mower how quickly to go. It took some getting used to because if you weren’t expecting it, you might be dragged across the yard (don’t ask me how I know this….HA!).
But what I liked about it is that the uphill slope of my yard was the easiest thing to mow! Set that baby in the middle of MIN and MAX and I simply babysat it while it did its job.
The newest self-propelled RYOBI lawn mowers have something called Smart-TREK technology which makes it more intuitive. As you walk faster, it moves faster. As you slow down, the mower slows down. It’s like taking your trained lawn mower pet out for a walk around your yard!
Reason #3: It’s Super Quiet!
When hubby would run the old gas-powered lawn mower, you’d hear it from inside the house. Heck–when the guy across the street mows his grass, you hear it from inside the house! I’ll admit that the sound of a loud, gas-powered lawn mower is one of the sounds of summer that instantly makes me want to open the Windows and let in a little sunlight (and noise pollution in the afternoon).
But the sound of a gas-powered lawn mower at 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning when you’re stirring from a lazy sleep is not quite as inviting!
The RYOBI electric lawn mower is so quiet that not only do you not disturb your neighbors, but it’s so quiet that it doesn’t rattle you to the core while mowing. There are no uncomfortable vibrations in the handle. And I don’t even need hearing protection because it’s not ear-splitting!
Please help! I hit a large object with my Ryobi mower and now it won’t start!
I hope someone can help me. I have a Ryobi brushless 40v push mower that I was using, accidentally ran over a lawn projector that was in some tall grass and now it won’t start. The blade looks fine and turns ok. Is this a common thing that happens? What is generally the problem in this case?
I really need to get it back working again, before my husband has to use it to cut our grass this weekend, so any advice would be appreciated!
quatsch
The force of the blade suddenly stopping may have been transferred thru the entire structure.
You somehow need to check continuity across each interlock switch. What a nightmare, even with a schematic.
Put batteries in and out. Try banging on each switch with a screwdriver, held by the shaft like a hammer. A few times, not too hard. Look for cracks, everywhere and anywhere, Look for partially pulled-out connectors.
Work the “dead man switch”, the part that needs to be pulled up against the handle against a spring.
Be careful it doesn’t suddenly start running.
At this point, what have you got to lose?
quatsch
Gasoline mower owners do not have to pay for all these safety interlocks. Maybe the justification is that a short circuit could turn on this mower by itself but a gas engine takes some effort to start.
Not really up on motors, but the battery is supplying power and inducing a current in the motor. The motor suddenly stops turning, would the magnetic field suddenly collapse and discharge back into the circuitry? Maybe a protection device would catch it or maybe something got fried.
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Remove the battery, let it sit for an hour.
OPTIONAL After removing the battery, grab a normal incandenscent household light bulb and jumper it across the battery terminals ON THE MOWER (not the actual battery)
You may need to use some aligator clips or something.
Leave the light bulb connected for at least a minute, THEN wait an hour and reinstall the battery.
The idea is to make sure the capacitors inside the unit discharge all the way to zero. The light bulb is an old solar-off-gridder’s trick that works to “precharge” the charge controllers for solar batteries, but it also works to discharge the capacitors when the battery is removed.
I’m guessing your computer system has a “NO YOU DON’T” code in there somewhere and it needs a reset to get it going again.
You can also put a multimeter on the battery terminals on the mower to check voltage. you’ll need to wait 1 hour or until that reading goes to under 3 volts or so.
Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower review – a great mower for small yards with not-so-great batteries
REVIEW – Battery-powered lawn mowers have several benefits over their gas-powered cousins: No more trips to the gas station, no need for oil, no worries about burning off all the gas before storing it away for the winter, less noise for your neighbors, and so on. Last year was the first time that I used a battery-powered lawn mower, and unfortunately that one was too small and quite underpowered. I’m back this year with another mower, this one from the well-known power tool maker, Ryobi. Will it have the power to mow my yard, which is a combination of weeds and Zoysia? Read on to find out more about Ryobi’s 18V ONE mower.
What is it?
The Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower is the latest in a long line of power tools and yard equipment that are powered by Ryobi’s ONE system, which uses lithium-ion battery technology intended to maximize power. This is a brushless push mower with a 16-inch blade that is intended for smaller yards. The mower comes with attachments for mulching or bagging as well as a pair of 4.0 Ah batteries and a charger. Ryobi is a Japanese manufacturer that “specializes in making pro-featured power tools and outdoor products truly affordable.”
Design and features
The Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower looks like every other battery-powered lawn mower. Nearly every visible part of the mower is plastic, except for the handle bars, the metal bars for the bagger, and the metal bars used to change the height of the mower. Its coloring is a mix of black and Ryobi’s signature bright yellow along with liberal doses of Ryobi and ONE branding. On top of the mower is a compartment for the safety key and the battery. The grass-catcher bag hangs off the back of the mower, and it can be replaced by a plug when mulching. Overall, there’s nothing new or interesting about this design, but as the old adage says, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Installation and setup
When the box arrived, I was a bit fearful for its contents. The box was quite thin, and it had clearly taken a beating during transport. In addition, the single strip of lightweight tape that held the box closed had mostly popped apart, leaving a good bit of the box top open. Ryobi has a lot to learn about protecting large pieces of lawn equipment while they are in transport. Thankfully, as far as I could tell, nothing was broken or missing; there was, however, one random screw in the bottom of the box, and I still have no idea where it came from.
Ryobi included three different manuals, one for the mower, one for the charger, and one for the batteries. The mower arrived partially assembled, so I started with the mower manual to see how to finish the assembly. I don’t like this manual at all. It’s got a 1980’s vibe to it, and the style is not very helpful. The pictures are small, the steps to take are unclear, multiple languages are mixed in the text and make it hard to read, and so on. I figured out how to assemble this mower, but it’s safe to say that I did so despite this manual, not because of it.
Using the charger is super simple, just plug it in and then insert the battery. It can only charge one at a time. The charger has no less than three LEDs:
- Orange – indicates the battery is too hot or cold to charge
- Red – indicates the battery is charging
- Green – indicates the battery is charged
Once the batteries were charged—this takes about 90 minutes per battery—I inserted the safety key and a battery, and I was ready to go!
Performance
The Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower can either mulch or bag. If you want to mulch, there’s a plastic plug that can be inserted into the hole in the back of the mower. As I want to add the grass clippings around my blackberry bushes, most of the time I choose to use the bagger instead. The bag is a typical nylon bag that allows air to flow through while blocking the grass. It’s attached to the mower using a pair of metal clips, which is a standard approach. The bag itself isn’t really that big. I found that on average it only took just over two minutes to fill up; that means I’m going to be doing a lot of stopping and emptying. At least it’s easy to detach the bag, empty it, and reattach.
The airflow out of the back of the mower isn’t very strong. When I mowed grass that was damp, the bagger didn’t work very well, as all the grass jammed at the back of the mower. As long as the grass was dry, however, it worked just fine.
Perhaps the coolest feature on this mower is its height adjusting mechanism. On my gas-powered mower, I literally have to use a wrench to remove the tires to change the height; it’s horrible. On this Ryobi mower, however, all I have to do is use a lever located on the side of the mower; it simultaneously lowers or raises all four wheels. I think this is really slick. It has seven different mowing heights, anywhere from 1.5 to 4 inches in height. I typically kept the mower on the third lowest setting, and that worked pretty well for my yard.
Starting the Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower is easy. I hold down one of the handles and then press the button. I found that this mower starts up with one press every time.
Here’s most important question about the Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower: How powerful is it? Can it mow my lawn without stalling and stopping all the time? Although this mower still doesn’t have as much power as my gas mower, it has enough to mow all but the thickest clumps of grass in my yard. Those still caused the mower to stall, but rarely did they cause it to stop. Whenever I hit thicker grass, the battery gave more power to the engine to power through. This push mower is very usable. I am super happy with the power Ryobi managed to get out this ONE system.
I created a short video to show some of the features of the mower and to show how it worked in my yard:
How big of a yard is this mower good for? As I’ve mentioned, the grass catcher is pretty small. The blade length is 16 inches, which is quite a bit smaller than most entry-level, gas-powered, push mowers that are usually 20 or 21 inches. Ryobi estimates that each battery will last 40 minutes, but what I found was that they averaged far, far less than that. I never got more than 20 minutes of runtime from a fully charged battery.
Ryobi says that the 18V ONE Lawn Mower is designed for yards that are a quarter acre or less. Given the size of the blade and bag catcher, that estimate seems about right, but with these batteries, I think a quarter acre is quite rather optimistic. Either I’ll need to buy two or (more likely) four additional batteries, or I’ll have to mow the lawn over three days instead of all at once. Ryobi does sell extra batteries at Home Depot.
What I like
The Ryobi 18V ONE Lawn Mower is part of Ryobi’s ONE line of power tools and lawn equipment. At only 16 inches, the blade is intended for smaller lawns, but it makes up for that with a smaller price tag. In my testing, I found this mower to be powerful enough to handle all the but the thickest patches of grass in my yard. I’m particularly fond of the height adjustment mechanism and its ability to fold up when stored. I’m very disappointed, however, with the total run time of the batteries; Ryobi says they will last for 40 minutes, but the ones I have actually last for less than 20. I like a lot of things about this lawn mower; if the batteries lived up to Ryobi’s estimated numbers, then I would recommend it without any hesitation. Given their very short run time, however, I can’t really recommend it to you, unless you’re happy buying more batteries or are willing to take three days to mow your lawn.
Price: 299 Where to buy: The Home Depot Source: The sample for this review was provided by Ryobi.
RYOBI Electric Cordless Lawn Mower RY401011 (2020) Repair
The Ryobi Electric Lawn Mower, released in 2020, is a cordless push lawn mower with a 20” cutting deck. It runs on a 40-Volt, 6AH lithium-ion battery and provides power equivalent to gas-operated lawn mowers with its brushless motor. It is recharged with the included 40-Volt charger. Model names include RY401011, RY401011VNM and RY401011BTLVNM.
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The Ryobi Electric Lawn Mower is a battery-powered alternative to gas-powered mowers, providing an efficient and user-friendly mowing experience. It runs on a 6AH lithium-ion battery that is conveniently recharged with a 40-Volt charger. Released in 2020, this cordless mower is now available in various regions, including Europe, Australia, the US, Canada, and Mexico, and has become a popular choice for independent lawn care. The mower features a 20-inch cutting deck and 7 adjustable height positions ranging from 1.5 to 4 inches, making it suitable for various mowing needs.
The Ryobi Electric Lawn Mower comes with a 5-year limited warranty for all 40-volt tools and a 3-year warranty for the battery.
Steph’s been using the Ryobi cordless battery powered lawn mower for about a year, so we thought it was time to do a review.
The 40 volt battery goes in here. You can store an extra battery in front, but with Steph’s small yard, no additional battery power is needed.
You have to either install the grass catcher or mulch plug in order for the mower to start. It’s a safety thing. If you forget, the machine won’t start!
There are several models of cordless mowers to choose from at The Home Depot. There are self-propelled models that would be perfect for larger or hilly yards.
Prior to buying the Ryobi mower, Steph used a reel manual push mower. It worked, but it was a pain to keep stopping to pull out sticks that would get stuck in it! She decided she was ready for a power mower. Battery powered seemed like the perfect choice for her tiny yard.
She went with Ryobi as she had already invested in the 40-volt Expand-It system of outdoor tools. So she could use the same battery she already had.
Check out the video to see the five thing Steph loves about her mower!
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How to fix a broken Self-propelled Ryobi Lawn Mower?
The Ryobi self-propelled lawn mower might not be working for a variety of reasons. Let’s just have a look at a few of them:
V-Belt
The V-belt is responsible for driving the lawn mower wheels by turning the drive pulleys. The wheels are unable to turn due to wear and tear, which can be rectified by replacing them.
Pulley for driving
The driving pulley is connected to the engine crankshaft. If the wheel assembly is damaged, the transmission will not allow it to interact. The driving pulley should be replaced if it is damaged.
Assembly of the Wheels
The wheel assembly is responsible for engaging the transmission’s drive gear. The gears within the wheel assembly will not engage if they are worn out.
If the pulleys rotate but still the lawn mower wheel doesn’t really, the gearbox is most likely broken. Once the damaged gears are replaced, the device will continue to work.
Handle assembly adjustment
If a Ryobi mower handlebar isn’t the appropriate height, remove the knobs per each side of the handlebar in a counterclockwise direction to adjust the handle assembly.
Raise the upper handle back and up to elevate the handle to the proper height, making that the handle locks into place securely. Then, in a clockwise direction, twist the handle knobs per each side of the handle to secure it, making sure that the carrier bolts are placed appropriately.
When altering the handle height, don’t really pull or catch any of the cables in the handle.
Blade Re-adjustment
If the mower isn’t mowing the grass as well as it should, change the blade height. In cool weather, the blade must be set such that the lawn is 1 to 2 inches tall, and in warm weather, the lawn should be 2 to 3 inches tall.
Then, by pressing the height-adjustment handle on the side of the mower and dragging it toward the back, adjust the blade length as needed.
If the mower is hard to move, the grass cuttings are not being bagged correctly, or the engine quits while mowing and the battery is completely charged, raise the cutting height.
Move the height-adjustment gear toward the front to lower the blade elevation as desired.
Transmission
The transmission is driven by the drive belt, which would be connected to the engine crankshaft. The engine powers the drive belt, which enables the lawn mower wheels to rotate.
Checking for problems is as simple as turning on the mower. The gearbox is dysfunctional if the transmission pulley rotates but the mower wheels do not.
However, the transmission is beyond repair. As a result, any anomalies discovered must be replaced.
Cable for Traction Control
In some circumstances, the traction control cable may be worn out or misplaced. Examine the controller cable to see whether it’s in good working order.
Pour a small quantity of oil further into the end of the cable if it’s not moving freely to eliminate friction. You should replace the cable even if it is still functional.