Strimmer Tantrum

Living_proof

I was given a modest electric strimmer of the type you have to bash on the ground to (supposedly) get the line to move on. When it works it's fine but when the cord runs out or snaps off it is a booger and I am quite demented with it.

Does anyone have a suggestion for something more user-friendly, not requiring a diazepam before use but not petrol as I can never start those things. How about a rechargeable one? Please tell me someone likes their strimmer.

wallbash

Stop using a strimmer, install mowing strips.

anotherbaldrick

The Bosch Li-Ion battery Power4all strimmer is pretty good. Was using it down at the bowls club and it did all that the old mains strimmer did on just one charge. Does not use plastic line but disposable plastic blades which just clip on.

Living_proof

Thank you another baldrick. This is what I shall go for. I do take your point though wallbash and long-term I would have brick edging to the lawns but for now I have to design the shape of the garden, which right now, is grass of the meadow type at least. I was a bit upset at the wildlife I disturbed this weekend including a really tiny cutie froglet but I have put out a big pond for him to use as he wishes, yet another use for an old slow cooker inside.

Do the battery operated strimmers make such an awful noise as the electric ones?

Davesnave

I love my strimmer, though it's really a brushcutter. Being a 4 stroke and a Honda, it's easy to start.:D

I got rid of the bump feed years ago, though. What a wonderful invention those are! You bang the thing on the ground, then the line pays out and a blade in the blade guard cuts it to the right length.....over and over.....so you waste as much as you use. :mad:

Now, with a slightly oversize line, I can cut for twenty minutes or so without needing to alter anything, and a reel of Sawtec Nylium lasts more than a year.

If it's any consolation, my previous electric strimmers were pants, the line broke frequently and I hated them too. Only prior experience with fishing reels saved me.

peter_the_piper

+1 Dave, Honda with Oregon line. Seems the better the quality line the longer it lasts, last reel was bought over 4 years ago and still going.

Living_proof

Well I bought the Bosch and charged it up but it is so very windy and uncomfortable outside I will wait to christen my new toy until the sun is out. I hope you have all had a very happy holiday.