Spec me a strimmer please

valve90210 · 15 Apr 2013 at 10:48

Hi all

Having recently moved into my first house with garden,may parents have given me lots of old tools that used to belong to my Grandad, which is lovely, however there sadly was not a strimmer amongst the tools and I would rather like one for quickly going round edges etc.

I'm not after anything amazing that could be considered almost pro kit, I just want something that is light enough to make it nice and easy, cuts well and won't have me having to switch off and manually feed out more line when it breaks. I experienced this very thing with one some years back and it made it a complete pain to use!!!

Ideally I want electric as I don't want to be messing around with petrol engines and things, I just want it nice and simple, plug in and off I go, perfectly happy for it to be corded as I'd rather that than having to make sure it's charged or finding it runs out of power halfway round or anything.

Budget...well I'd like to spend as little as possible really.

Any advice or recommendations very much appreciated.

valve90210 · 15 Apr 2013 at 14:45

how is the line feed mechanism?

valve90210 · 15 Apr 2013 at 14:54

Cool, does it work pretty well, I've seen some reviews saying that it's quite stiff and needs to be 'bumped' on a hard surface or it doesn't work?

How is it for trimming fairly short, again some reviews ahve said you haver to have it at quite an angle?

valve90210 · 8 May 2013 at 13:47

I finally got myself a strimmer at the weekend, I went for the Bosch ART23 Easy Trim as recommended. Managed to pick it up for £20 as homebase had an offer on.

Gave a it a bit of a whirl over the weekend and have to say it is really good, took down the grass in my front garden with no worries, and managed to cut down some brambles that my mum's old qualcast handn't been able to touch!

Bump feed system seems to work well and the change in pitch when you need to feed more line is more obvious than previous strimmers I've used.

My only very minor complaint which is the same for most such items is that it is a little too short for comfortable extended use...and I'm only 5'8" so not tall!

Would definitely recommend it though!