Recommend me a strimmer

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NiceCupOfTea

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Monday 30th May 2016
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Well my cheap 2 stroke strimmer was always a pain to get running, and appears to have seized, and the borrowed black and record electric strimmer met with an unfortunate end after a fence post fell on it.

So I am looking for recommendations for a new strimmer. With both of my previous ones I spent far more time refeeding the wire than cutting grass so please something that's not breaking the line every 10 seconds, and something that does actually feed the line through automatically would be nice!

NiceCupOfTea

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Monday 30th May 2016
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TimJMS said:
I have found that these start first time, every time. Line feeder works perfectly too:

http://www.mountfieldlawnmowers.co.uk/products/fre...
Which one of those?

Budget? Don't know really, happy to pay for something that works but it's not a big garden and doesn't get used that often...

NiceCupOfTea

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Tuesday 31st May 2016
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Ok, I have not looked at stihl but I'm guessing not cheap. I am trying to keep it under £100 I guess - we are talking lawn/decking/edging not clearing several acres worth of brush!

NiceCupOfTea

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Wednesday 1st June 2016
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Composite Guru said:
I got a cordless Qualcast one from Argos a few months ago and its great. Best cheap stripper I've had.
I think we're going beyond the scope of the thread title now...