Digging up an oldie.
I ended up buying an 80v Victa cordless mower about a week after the last post on here. It was the last one on the shelf so Bunnings knocked $100 of the price for me which got me the mower, 2 batteries and a charger for $600. A couple of months later, they started running out the 80v range as they said it was only a promo thing with Victa. So this sucked that I'd just bought into a system that would now be phased out, but it meant the other skins would be getting cheaper.
I picked up the 80v straight shaft whipper snipper for $75 down from $299 originally (it's a brilliant, powerful and light line trimmer). A week later I grabbed another battery which had been reduced from $259 to only $50 and got another charger for only $25. I was eyeing off the 80v chainsaw which started at $399 and every couple of weeks when I was back at bunnos I would check the price out. They dropped to $299, then $199, then to $99 then down to $50! I waited until the last one was on the shelf and then asked the Bunnings guy what the best price was that he could do. He said, "how does 20 bucks sound?" Needless to say, i grabbed it there and then. So now I have the mower, snipper, chainsaw, 3 batteries and 2 chargers which are all performing well after just over a year.
The reason i brought this back up is because Bunnings now have the new Victa 82v range in store and it appears to be almost identical, but it unfortunately looks like the batteries aren't interchangeable which is a real shame as there's a new 4.0ah battery which would give ample run time to do my whole yard on one battery. But a little birdy in Bunnings today told me that you only need to file off some plastic to make the batteries fit so I may have to try this out.
Cheers
Grafy
