| Comment | I've been a landscape contractor for 30 years. While we have
embraced battery landscape equipment, there are applications where
the technology is not yet close to practical or replaceable. Medium
to large chainsaws; The power needed to weight ratio of battery
power makes it impossible to move safely while working, even
backpack battery don't have enough runtime and also add operator
loose of balance and fatigue. Lawn mowers; the weight added by
battery's sufficient to operate large mowers creates soil
compaction problems and requires frequent charge or change outs
that make them impossible to use commercially or institutionally.
While battery Backpacks solve some power longevity problems, they
add fatigue, safety, heat stress and cost issues (over $1000.00
each). Firefighters, Licensed tree & landscape workers need
exemptions from this ban to safely be able to take care of our
urban environment until suitable, plausible equipment is available.
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