"Wireless" Strimmers

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi guys,

I'm sick of using my plug in strimmer, it's a faff, I think a petrol one is overkill so I'm looking at the strimmer that have removable battery packs so can be charged.

Does anyone have any experience with these? Strimming my garden takes around 15 minutes so that's all I need the charge to last for, I just want it to be reliable.

Thanks,
 
Do you have any cordless tools such as Dewalt XR or similar? Might be worth looking into something that can re-use your batteries.
 
Gayjin said:
Do you have any cordless tools such as Dewalt XR or similar? Might be worth looking into something that can re-use your batteries.
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I don't but a good shout.

Rossi~ said:
Strimming my garden takes about 30 minutes and I can do it with this: http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/qualcast-li-ion-cordless-grass-trimmer---18v-245418

I've dropped it, cleaned it once in 3 years and it's still going. Cheap too.
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Cheers, yeah that's certainly down my street. Thanks for that
 
I bought a cheapy last year to get our new allotment under control.
Its NIcad so doesnt charge quickly but lasts about 30 mins on doing weeds etc.

For £28 its a bargain. It probably did 3-4 years worth of normal strimming up there and still going strong. So so much easier to use than a corded one.

Wilko had a decent one on offer a few weeks back, think it was a bank hol deal but the stuff whilst a limited range is very good value for money so may be worth a look, it was a flymo or similar
 
Surely a 30 minute strim job calls for a petrol strimmer?!

I was strimming my entire lawn (1/8th acre garden, approx 50 % grass (~10m x 30m lawn)) in about 30 minutes when my mower was out of action.

Stihl FS56 is what I've got. Brilliant bit of kit
 
Probably takes me 15 minutes. I don't tend to donth far end or sides unless they're messy. Still think petrol is overkill!

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ask yourself this- a petrol one that'll last for well over a decade if looked after, or risk a battery being dead within a handful of years.

if you're settled there i'd personally be looking at a small petrol strimmer.
 
You say that, I did have a petrol one some years back and I had a nightmare with it every summer when I came round to using it and it being stood for months! I get by with a wired jobby now, surely a strimmer just relies on similar batteries to that of your average drills etc, who don't appear to die often?
 
I would say batery beats petrol unless you have a very large area to do.
Battery is lighter, you can have more than one battery obviously
Petrol, no charge time as such as long as you have a can of fuel. Always empty them in the winter, but you have to expect sooner or later to need some work on carb etc

We recently bought a new strimmer at work for the gardener, our supplier advised to still go petrol for commercial work as battery is not quite at the point he would recommend for a large site. He said its very close though and expects within a few years at most to be recommending battery over petrol. Bear in mind our gardener will use a strimmer all day, so we would need 3-4 batterys being swapped repeatedly to support that level of usage. The outlay is higher for battery based when you need very long up time, which clearly most people dont need at home.
 
Petrol ones will tear the **** out of wood and such like. I have one for cutting back thick weeds from the track up to our house, would never use one in my garden.
 
If you can't or won't go petrol - i'd go with a Lithium Ion battery - Nickel based batteries do my head in.

I'd also say that if you did have a change of heart regarding petrol (not that I think the usage you've described needs one) - get a decent one - i've been having some issues with my Ryobi brushcutter - running problems can be a nightmare esp with a cheap carb.

I'd definitely spend the extra on an Stihl or similar in hindsight.
 
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