Hasta La Ideas

If you live in a rural area with four seasons, you know that maintaining your property is a lot of work requiring a lot of tools. And when it comes to powered items, at a minimum you need a lawnmower for the summer, a leaf blower for the fall, a snowblower for the winter and maybe a pressure washer when it comes time to clean the house in spring. That’s four contraptions taking up space in your garage, each with their own motor.

Which is why Troy-Bilt’s forthcoming FLEX line of products is brilliant, at least in theory. The idea behind the FLEX line is that you buy a single motor (a decent size, too, at 208cc’s), then buy lawn mower, leaf blower, snowblower and pressure washer “attachments” as needed, and you can swap each of them in and out, so you’ve only got one motor to maintain.

As of yet there’s no details on the FLEX’s “Lock & Latch” connection system, but since the devil is in the design details, we imagine the ease or difficulty of swapping attachments is something that will boost or kill sales after customer reviews hit the web. Which will be next year; the FLEX line is slated to roll out in Spring of 2015, exclusively through Lowes.

Via Consumer Reports

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