- Location
- Boroughbridge, york
I had a stihl with curved driveshaft,it got hot and broke, doing more than lawn tidying
Replaced with straight shaft gearbox type, much better.
Replaced with straight shaft gearbox type, much better.
Stihl fs 100 currently out of action due to carb issue. Only does a few days a year on thick grass and brambles around tree plantations. Thinking of using aspen fuel due to issues most years. Other Stihl tools work well on the same fuel but get more regular use. Tanaka gets around 1-2 hours use per week in the growing season. It runs on the same fue andl performs faultlessly. Both about 10 years old. Old heavy Echo strimmer did over 25 years before it became hard to start and smokey. The newer ones are so much lighter.
It helps If you know the foreman of the landscape squad, he can tell by the initials on each one who's it was and if they maintained itsecond 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
Anyone sell left handed strimmers?
Use one left handed and you get more stuff thrown back at you and the exhaust fires heat across your back.
An electric one could easily be engineered to rotate backwards