u/Linenoise77

Mainly a milwaukee guy, but run some ryobi stuff and have always been happy with it.

Need a new hedger, and saw the Ryobi 40v one at a really nice price, with a battery.

I'm not exactly keen to introduce yet another battery platform into my ecosystem, but the price on it is a bit hard to ignore.

The battery it comes with is only a 2ah. Can't find any kind of run time on it. I need to do about 100 feet of hedges with it. Can i realistically do that on 2ah? It claims 45 minutes on that battery but i find that VERY hard to believe if you are actually cutting stuff.

Beyond that, is it a halfway decent hedger?

Currently have the hedge attachment for the Quicklock and love it, but its overkill for half my yard, and i'd like to replace my crappy B&D handheld one with something better.

Haven't seen a good deal come through on the Milwaukee ones, and am looking at 250+ tool only.

Ryobi has one for 170, and i'm generally happy with the Ryobi stuff i have mixed in, but their hedger is on their 40v system (comes with a battery), and i'm not exactly keen on introducing yet another battery system that would likely be a one trick pony.

Is the Milwaukee one really worth the price, or can anyone compare it to the Ryobi one?

Homeowner use, but i have a lot of big ass hedges.

Alternatively i can get the mower, which i have been eying up, with 4 12ah Forges and a 6 bay charger, plus the hedger, for 1600 bucks. What could i realistically and easily get for 2 of those batteries and the 6 bay for on a quick flip?