People stop us at gas stations to ask about the trailer, which is funny because we’re only there for the truck. Here’s how it works, what it can and can’t do, and why we built the company around it.
What’s on it
Solar panels on the roof, a battery bank inside, and racks of commercial battery equipment: mowers, string trimmers, hedge trimmers, blowers, a compactor, saws, and the excavation tools we use on drainage and hardscape jobs. The panels charge the bank; the bank charges the tool batteries between stops. On a sunny day the trailer runs a full route without touching the truck’s alternator. On a string of gray days we top up at the shop overnight.
What it runs
Everything. That’s the part people don’t believe. Our mowers are commercial battery units that match gas on cut and speed. The blowers move as much air as a backpack gas blower at about 30 decibels less. On a hardscape job, the plate compactor, the cut-off saw and the compact excavator are battery as well, so a two-week patio build happens without a gas engine on your property.
What it saves
Noise. About 30 decibels quieter than gas, which the ear hears as roughly one-eighth the loudness. Neighbors on the other side of the fence usually don’t know we’ve been.
Emissions. Last year our routes avoided 11,960 pounds of CO₂ compared with the same work on gas, about the same as taking a car off the road for 13,500 miles. A two-stroke gas blower also puts out more smog-forming hydrocarbons in half an hour than a pickup does on a very long drive; battery tools put out none.
Fuel and maintenance. No gas, no oil changes, no carburetors, no pull cords. Fewer things break.
Fumes. None in your garage, none at the school pickup line, none at a hospital entrance.
What it can’t do
Snow (we don’t do it anyway). Twelve-hour days in January with no sun and no shop charge; we plan routes around it. Big commercial mowing with a 72-inch deck; our sweet spot is properties up to about five acres of maintained turf.
Why we built the company this way
The equipment is better to work with, the neighborhoods we work in care, and it turned out to be the reason the City of Dunwoody gave us its 2023 Sustainability Hero Award and the reason Appen Media wrote about us. It’s also the thing property managers ask about first when we bid on a commercial contract in Perimeter Center: quiet during business hours is something a gas crew can’t offer.
Where the trailer actually turns up
It is not a show piece. It is parked on a street somewhere most weekdays, which is the only reason any of the above is worth writing down. On a residential street it sits behind a lawn program that runs on batteries from the first cut to the last blower pass, and the same program is set out for Sandy Springs, where the river buffers change what a lawn near the bank should get, and for Brookhaven, where the canopy does. On a commercial property it is the thing that makes daytime service possible at all, which is a scheduling argument more than an environmental one. That side is on the commercial maintenance page, and for the office towers and the medical buildings specifically, the Perimeter Center page.
The part that surprises people is who cares about it most. Not clients. Crew. A day spent behind two-stroke engines leaves your ears ringing and your hands buzzing hours after you get home, and a day spent behind battery equipment does not. It is the first thing we say to anyone asking about work with us, and in this trade it is a better argument than anything we could paint on a truck.
Questions people ask
Is electric landscaping equipment as powerful as gas? Commercial-grade battery equipment, yes. Consumer battery tools from a big-box store, no. The difference is the battery platform and the motor.
How long do the batteries last on a job? A full day, because the trailer carries more than a day’s worth and recharges as we work.
Does it cost more to hire an electric crew? Our prices are set by the work, not the equipment. Quiet is free.
Can a solar trailer power hardscape equipment? Ours does: compactor, saws, excavation tools.
Are gas leaf blowers banned in Georgia? No; state law prevents cities from banning them. We’re electric because it’s better, not because we had to be.
Want the trailer in your driveway? (404) 369-0989 or book a free site visit.
