Petrol strimmers.

[Greythundercloudys]

What a good make, have bought ones of ebay before cheapish, but need a better one, mcculloch?

 

[bobk]

If you can't suss out a jarmet sprayer I wouldn't bother .

 

[br jones]

What a good make, have bought ones of ebay before cheapish, but need a better one, mcculloch?

do you have battery tools ?

 

[Jerry]

McCulloch are awful generally.

I have a tanaka and a stihl. The tanaka is over 2o years old and still perfectly good and starts on 3rd pull.

Stihl is good but only a few years old.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

I did, had it working back up at 2.5 bar, since Friday night, that spraying over for another year for me.

 

[Greythundercloudys]

No battery tools.

 

[Larel]

I bought a Stiga last year. Partly because I did a deal for a ride on and thought I could use the leverage to get a better deal. I by no means work it hard but it starts no bother every time I go to it. It is the biggest one they do, but certainly has plenty of power.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Wouldnt touch Mcculloch ,,their chainsaws are bad enough ,,Honda 4stroke are strong machines ,anything by stihl or husky ,,Efco

 

[24/7 farming]

Stihl fs240 here I think it is, going good, overkill for around the house but well up for it when battling 2ft rushes n the rest

 

[Bob c]

fed up with crap
so bought FS460,,,as fast can walk cutting the grass under a electric fence

 

[Treemover]

Im looking for something myself and Im down to two units.
A stihl fs 70c-e. I rented one on Friday and was blown away how light it was and how good it was. I usually end up with larger units like 4 strokes etc and they are just too heavy for grass.

Im also keen on a huskvarna 535ixrt which is battery. It wont be cheap, but two things that I like are that I will be buying a husky top handled batt saw in a few months, so it makes sense to keep to one make for batteries and charger. But the icing on the cake is the autofeed of the chord. or pushing a button. Will save me having to swap chord ever two mins. But if the unit will not run on 3mil chord I guess ill be back to the Stihl.

 

[agrimax]

I'd suggest going with a Mitsubishi or Kawasaki engined machine. 43-45cc is plenty powerful and they have been around a long time and are very reliable.

 

[Dry Rot]

I have a Husqvarna brush cutter, 325 I think off hand. Good enough brush cutter but the threads in the aluminium body are stripping which is a pain when it was otherwise good. The threads on the screws are also some odd size, so if you lose one there's no cheap replacement.

 

[neilo]

McCulloch are awful generally.

I have a tanaka and a stihl. The tanaka is over 2o years old and still perfectly good and starts on 3rd pull.

Stihl is good but only a few years old.

Another vote for Tanaka. Ours hasn’t put a foot wrong in 4 years..... or I’m sure Mrs NeilO would have informed me, lots.

 

[Enry]

Stihl or Husky every time here

 

[Bury the Trash]

do you have battery tools ?

got a makita, not sure if thats the best one, but in respect of cordless , boy is it one hundred and ten percent nicer to use than an engined one,

 

[Ashtree]

Got a Stihl battery for her indoors. It’s “ok” for tipping around light stuff and edges.
For heavier stuff, definitely need petrol. Japanese versions trump either Stihl or Husky.
I have a Maruyama going on twenty years now. Has done an awful lot of work, and never missed a beat.

 

[Netherfield]

Echo as good as Stihl.

 

[betweenthelines]

Tool Station flog off whatever they have left as "out of season specials"

Got a good one for £99.99 last year. At that price you can work it hard under warranty then just buy another one in a year or two.

 

[quavers]

second vote for Echo here , bought a second hand one from thainstone , ex council never been a problem in 12 years although i dont use it often , never failed to start , fresh petrol and off she goes . look under the building section of this weeks thainstone sale , some more echo strimmers up for auction