Which YardEdge Pro Tool Should You Buy First?
People ask us this more than any other question, usually phrased as "where do I start?" The honest answer is not the most expensive tool, and it is not the one with the best specification. It is the one that fixes the job you do most often.
Here is the rule we would give a friend: buy for frequency first, difficulty second. A job that comes round every week is worth solving before a job that comes round twice a year, even if the twice-a-year job is harder. You will feel the weekly one every single weekend.
Start here: the weekly job
For almost everyone with a lawn, that weekly job is the edges.
Cordless Weed Eater and Edger — $129.99
What it is for: the fringe of grass the mower cannot reach, the ragged collar round the mailbox post, the border between lawn and driveway. Trims, edges and cuts weeds by adjusting the head.
Buy it first if: you mow your own lawn. That is the whole test.
It is also our bestseller by a distance, and not because we push it. It is simply the job that recurs.
The rest of the range, and who each one is for
Rotating Cordless Hedge Trimmer — $184.99
Buy it if you have a hedge and it still looks wonky after you have finished. The head rotates 180 degrees, so the flat top cut and the vertical face are the same tool rather than the same tool held at an awkward angle.
Cordless Pole Saw, 15 ft Reach — $254.99
Buy it if there are branches you have been ignoring for two years because you do not like the ladder. It extends from 4.9 ft to 9 ft, which puts branches around 15 ft up in range with both feet on the ground. The head comes off, so it doubles as a handheld mini chainsaw for the limbs you just dropped.
Cordless Drill & Impact Driver — $164.99
Buy it if your list is the garage rather than the lawn. 550 N·m of brushless torque for seized bolts, three speed modes so you can back off when you need control, forward and reverse, and a built-in LED for working under a car. Two 4.0Ah batteries and the charger are in the case.
Cordless Impact Wrench 1200Nm — from $169.99
Buy it if the drill above is not enough — specifically if you change your own wheels. 1200 N·m on a half-inch drive shifts lug nuts a breaker bar will not. This is the heavier, narrower tool; the one above is the all-rounder.
Cordless Leaf Blower 680 CFM — $219.99
Buy it if you have mature trees and wet autumns. Dry leaves move for almost anything; the mat stuck flat to the grass three days after rain needs air volume, which is the 680 CFM rather than the 210 MPH. Two 5.2Ah batteries, so you finish the yard in one go.
What we would buy second
For a typical suburban property, the trimmer and the hedge trimmer together cover the weekly tidy and the twice-a-year shaping. Between them they are most of what a paid lawn-care visit would actually do.
Add the pole saw if you have mature trees. Add the drill and impact driver whenever the garage side of the list starts nagging. Add the blower if your autumn is a wet one.
One thing worth knowing before you buy anything
Most of our cordless range shares a 21V battery system. That matters more than it sounds: the second tool you buy costs you less in practice than the first, because the batteries carry across. The blower is the exception at 40V, so plan that one as a standalone.
And what not to buy first
Do not start with the biggest tool because it feels like the best value. A pole saw used twice a year is a worse first purchase than a trimmer used twenty times, whatever the price tags say. We would rather you bought one tool that earns its place by the back door than three that live in the shed.
If you are not sure, the tool buying guide sorts the whole range by the job you are actually trying to finish, and every product page tells you plainly what that tool is wrong for as well as what it is right for.
Still not sure which one?
Email info@yardedgepro.com and describe your yard. We will tell you which tool fits, including when the answer is none of them.