weed eaters

pete black

Well-known Member
in a posting mood i guess. any thoughts on an economical light weight weed eater for occasional light duty use? lowes-bolens at $69. tsc-weedeater at $99. age and other maladies demand light weight. i looked at stihl's new lightweight model but online comments are not good.
 
I have an Echo SRM 210 About 4 or 5 years old now. It's been the best trimmer I've owned.I do use only 93 octane fuel. No problems at all.
 
Only Poulon company makes the 'weedeaters' all the other companys make string trimmers.
If you go with the Stihl brand of trimmer you can't go wrong.
The Weedeater brand is the cheapest built on the market.
 
I bought a new stihl last year. It"s not heavy. I paid 129 at the local hardware store. It got a two year extended warranty with the purchase of their synthetic oil. It"s a great trimmer well worth the money.
 
I've had a shindaiwa for about 8 years and have had no trouble with it. It is light, starts easy, easy on fuel, fairly quiet, and has little vibration. If I ever needed another one, I'd get another shindaiwa.
 
We just bought a black & decker 20 volt trimmer..came also with a seperate blower..for 100.00..The battery last about 30 min of constant use. It weighs maybe 5 pounds.We got an extra battery for 50.00.The shipping weight for blower,trimmer and 2 batteries was 12 pounds...wery light and it does a good job.Blower works well too. Me and the wife are happy with both.
 
Check out Hatachi trimmers. Boss at work bought two. I thought it was a joke.But they have outlasted every other one we have. Great little machines.
 
Goat or sheep.

Self propelled weed eater with build in fertilizer plant.Pays for itself in one season, no gas or maintenance required
Buy cheap young one in the spring, sell big fat one in the fall for twice purchase price or butcher and eat it if you like goat or lamb. :lol:
 
I've always had stihl and no problems, get a two stroke, four strokes are heavy and hard on the back.
 
I bought a Stihl FS-90 straight shaft about four years ago and is a great weed eater. It is what they call 4-mix (4-stroke) they run smoother, quitier and no smoke like the old 2-stroke.
 
Just bought a Stihl last week. It is a very easy to use and start machine. As mentioned, when I bought their oil (which I use anyway) they bumped the warranty out to four years. Even if the reviews are iffy you have a huge warranty! It was very reasonably priced and will cut anything I put in front of it.
 
Like other equipment, sometimes a used unit is a better deal then a new unit. Prices of used units also drop more in the off season. Look on Craig's List. A few years ago I bought a nice used Stihl trimmer for $25 from a guy who needed an electric start unit after his shoulder surgery.
 

I found that a 4-stroke will loose the crankcase oil, if it tips over (and it only holds a couple ounces)..
I switched to the 2-stroke and it has much more power..
 

The Corded Black & Decker 17" trimmer is very light and powerful.
My 86 yo Mother uses hers often..
I put 200 ft of chord in a 5 gal bucket..
Started at the Middle of the chord and fed it into the bucket Double (both ends at the same time)..
When you need chord, set the bucket 1/2 way to where you need to go and pull out the doubled chord, it reaches and never tangles,,
Just always feed it (doubled) back into the bucket..!!
Ron.
 
The Stihl 4-mix (4-stroke) does not have motor oil in crankcase. They run the same mixture as 2-stroke and run it through crankcase like a 2-stroke but is a 4-stroke engine.
 
I don't know which models you are compairing. But my MS-90 four stroke only weighs fives oz. more than the same size two stroke that matches up with the MS90 .
 
Y'all going to laugh at me, but I have a compound-cut Fiskars hand model, and when that thing is lubed and SHARP, it cuts so fast and easy. Has to be compound-cut, and must be sharpened correctly.
 
have one of those green ones from Valu, worked fine, but I haven't taken it off the hook in years.
I hate trimming. So, everywhere I had to trim, around buildings, fences, etc......I planted wild Tiger Lilly.
Mower deck mows right under their outward curved leaves edge.
No weed stands a chance of surviving inside the Tiger Lilies growth.
cost-zero
I just look for good stands of wild lilies in the roadside ditches.
dig a couple clumps, take em home.
Planting is no work at all, if it is damp out, ya don't even need a hole, drop the clump and step on it. done
 

I am in the process of switching over to the pump up sprayer for trimming, but I have a Husqvarna that has amazed me each spring when it starts. I had a Poulan before it that lasted only about two years because I tried to baby it by mixing the oil strong and the rings got stuck.
 
NNP,
I do the same thing, haven't used my honda 4 cycle
weed eater in years. I use flowers, tigers lilies
is just one flower. I use Wild strawberries, which
has a yellow bloom the a red berry, as ground
cover between some of my irises and sedam. I plant
flowers around everything that would need trimmed,
buildings, trees. Only problem are seedlings,
trees, want to grow in flowers. Shovel takes care
of them.

I don't have rain gutters on pole barn. Have one
foot eves. Flowers prevent water from splashing
dirt on side of barn. Keeping rain from dripping
on siding prevents green mold from showing up on
siding too.

Also rigged up a DR string trimmer on front loader
to cut back all the flowers after frost.

Can't really say how many flowers we have, but the
Boss likes them. She may turn her passion in to a
little income soon.

George
 
If you have a 4 stroke husqvarna like mine, you
have a honda engine. It's very easy to start and
has more power than any weed wacker I've ever
used.

Arms have to get used to the weight, but the extra
power is well worth it. I love the way the string
head comes off too.

When I purchased mine it was expensive, around
$450-500?, not sure. That will most likely put
this out of the guy's budget of under $100 and the
weight factor.
 
another vote for Echo. I've got two trimmers and one chainsaw. All are the most reliable engines I've owned. and the only bump feed trimmer heads that work every time! And easy to load new line.
 
Bruce are you sure thats for 20 hrs of use? or is it guaranteed to be pollution compliant for 20 hrs?
 
Had a cheap Roybi that lasted for many years. But used it too often on heavy brush and finally broke the internal drive shaft. Real shame because the engine ran fine. Bought a top-of-the-line consumer Husqvarna and had problems keeping it running when it got hot. Too lean for emissions reasons. With some difficulty purchased a carb adjustment tool that solved the running problem but the higher fuel ratio made the external exhaust converter run pretty hot and one needs to be very cautious or get burned. Believe I finally gutted the converter which makes it a tad more acceptable. Also bought a 4 cycle Toro to get the extended chain saw feature and it runs fine but is too heavy for the power it makes. If at all possible wouldn't buy another 4 cycle. Perhaps should have bought a commercial Stihl, but she runs the Husky while I use Toro and get the very undesirable job done a lot quicker.
 

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