Recommend me a strimmer

[anonymous-user]

buy cheap buy twice. got one of these, works great, starts first pull and has an auto wire feeder type thing.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sthil-FS85-strimmer-brus...

the rotating head looks different though, ill go check in the morning. can always be replaced with oem

[swisstoni]

Bit heavy, but really pleased with the build quality.

[Nimby]

We've just bought a Lidl 4-in-one (strimmer, brush-cutter, hedge trimmer, chainsaw) 50cc 2-stroke for £129.

Edit: Used the hedge trimmer for a couple of hours and it's fine - no great difference from the Stihl Kombi I've borrowed in the past.

Edited by Nimby on Saturday 9th July 17:00

[guindilias]

swisstoni said:

Bit heavy, but really pleased with the build quality.

Have the same one - my garden isn't huge, so it takes no time at all to strim.
It's a shame about the neighbour's kids, but hey - if you are going to sunbathe, do it somewhere safe!

[Craikeybaby]

Craikeybaby said:

Craikeybaby said:

Bumping this as I am also in the market for a strimmer. I have been looking at the Makita strimmers, as I already have a few batteries for it and don't want something with a cable or a petrol engine.

It will be used for tidying up the edges of the lawn at home, up to raised beds etc. However I'd also like to use it to tidy up the verges on the alleyway behind our house, maintenance is meant to be shared, but no one else does any and I'm sure the verges are making the track narrower.

I guess this one will be better for the garden: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Makita-DUR181Z-Cordless-L...
And this one better for the alleyway: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JITFBBC/ref=pd_lpo_...

Would the lack of adjustable head make the garden stuff more difficult on the second one?

I ended up going for the beefier one on the basis that it is better to be overtooled than undertooled!

It arrived this afternoon and I've already cleared the back alley! Some of the nettles were >1ft but they just fell over at the might of the Makita! It will probably be overkill for the lawn edges though...

[R E S T E C P]

I recently got a cheap cordless strimmer from Argos... Qualcast I think. About £40.

I was initially looking at big petrol models, mostly because I wanted to increase my household horsepower.
But our garden is only about 100 square metres and I wanted something quick and easy.

It's actually been great! I'm really bad at strimmering, my old one used to wreck the fence posts because I wasn't accurate enough - but this one isn't powerful enough to even leave a mark on them! In fact it's not even powerful enough to break the line... I've done the entire garden twice without it getting any shorter. It's just powerful enough for grass, and that's all. And the battery is just big enough to do the entire front and back.

Click the battery in, strim, chuck it in the garage. No faff, simple!

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

Craikeybaby said:

It arrived this afternoon and I've already cleared the back alley!

Blimey. You used a strimmer for that?

[boxst]

Any comments on this 'Prime Day' streamer?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00IJEEGHW/ref=gbph_ti...

Steve

[Bowside]

AVV EM said:

buy cheap buy twice. got one of these, works great, starts first pull and has an auto wire feeder type thing.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sthil-FS85-strimmer-brus...

the rotating head looks different though, ill go check in the morning. can always be replaced with oem

I got one of these and I must say I'm disappointed. I'm sure it'll be reliable but it's a nightmare to start (compared to my Honda mower) and the line distribution is a real pigs ear.
The worst part though is that it feels unbalanced no matter how I position the handle. But gutted really as I bought it to last a long time.

[EggsBenedict]

After some scumbags cleared out my shed for me, I've bought one of these:

http://www.garden4less.co.uk/cobra-5-in-1-multi-to...

Really impressed with it.