SUNY ESF
Electric Grounds Equipment
Questions? Contact Us.
Office of Sustainability
123 Bray Hall
sustainability@esf.edu
315-470-6701
Enjoy the relative quiet of electric grounds equipment on the Syracuse campus, and increasingly, at all of ESF's campuses throughout NYS! We hope to replace our traditional gas-powered zero turn mower with an electric version in the near future. Staff use the following electric equipment to maintain many campus spaces:
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Leaf blowers (hand held and backpack)
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String trimmers
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Pole saw
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Hedge trimmer
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Push lawn mowers
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Chainsaws
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Snow blower
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Snow shovels
This transition to electric power equipment provides numerous benefits to campus, including reduced noise and air pollution, decreased stress on equipment operators and reduced fossil fuel usage.
A member of the grounds team tills a landscape bed with an electric multi-tool to prepare for planting
Our Grounds Supervisor uses an electric string trimmer to edge a curb