Has anyone got an recomnedations for a decent quality head for a curved shaft petrol strimmer?
The head that came with my new petrol strimmer is garbage, the nylon wears breaks up and it keeps randomly disapearing back up into the head so I have
to dismatle it about 3 times everytime I do the garden.
I have had a search and most of the petrol strimmer heads seem to be for straight shaft strimmers or vaguely listed as '99% Universal' and
there are thousands of different ones.
I just want to cut the grass round the lawn, nothing more strenuous but I want it to be reliable.
Only ever used stihl angle-head units but the heads on those always feel solid as, all be it normally used with a steel blade.
The little black and decker electric on we have for round the drive has the 'wire goes in side' issue but is pretty quick to get it out
again.
Daniel
I know this isn't helpful, but strimmers either petrol or electric seem to perform very poorly. I have tried different ones and found that they are all rubbish, spend more time messing with the feed than cutting the grass. I recently contacted Flymo and asked them when they were going to bring out one that worked properly. They said that all there products were first class and the problem was due to operator error!!
I have had good results from my screw fix cheapy Titan Strimmer/Hedge Cutter. Had it about a year and now I understand it works well. You just bang
the head on the ground and a bit more line is fed out.
I have bought a few screwfix TITAN tools and they have all been superb DIY tools. I am sure if you use these 'heavy' tools on a daily basis
they will wear out faster than the professional counterparts. If I had the money I would buy Stilh. But for the normal gardener my TITAN works fine.
Just check out the positive review count!!!!!!!!
Titan Strimmer
Having looked at the page again I can say that the tool is great, the strap/harness rubbish.
I use Ryobi (petrol and electric) with no problems. The 1kw electric model is as powerful as an petrol but much lighter which makes a difference if you are using all day. I have a tow behind genny on the garden tractor but otherwise long electric leads are a pain.
My ryobi petrol curved petrol strimmer has been 100% reliable. 10 x quicker than the crap electric ones. Quick tap on the ground auto feeds the wire perfectly. Don't skimp on cheap strimmer wire tho.
Try and find one that fits and gives 2 lines from the head if you only have one. Also get one that with let you use thicker line or drill out the holes to accept thicker line you can buy packs of eyelets to allow this. I am using 3mm line in my Kawasaki at the moment and short of really smashing it into a hard corner, it never breaks. As an ex golf course green keeper I feel your pain, it is a real PITA!
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Originally posted by Adamirish
Try and find one that fits and gives 2 lines from the head if you only have one. Also get one that with let you use thicker line or drill out the holes to accept thicker line you can buy packs of eyelets to allow this. I am using 3mm line in my Kawasaki at the moment and short of really smashing it into a hard corner, it never breaks. As an ex golf course green keeper I feel your pain, it is a real PITA!
As far as strimmers go, i've got a ~30 year old echo that just works, cost me less than a tonne and has handled everything I've done with it
(including felling ~100 christmas trees with 1" trunks) FiL has a ryobi thing that falls apart in different ways hilariously regularly, I think
the motor came off the shaft last month.
Bump heads are arsepants, I've got one like
this
that doesn't do anything clever, nor does it break the line badly enough to require surgery.
Incidentally, I'm a fan of
stihl
square line but I find it a touch more breaky than round stuff, though that could be because it cuts woody stuff better, and thus I abuse it.
I also find this variety of blade most pleasing for general use, the stihl ones are a bit heavy for
my machine.
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Originally posted by Doctor Derek Doctors
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Originally posted by Adamirish
Try and find one that fits and gives 2 lines from the head if you only have one. Also get one that with let you use thicker line or drill out the holes to accept thicker line you can buy packs of eyelets to allow this. I am using 3mm line in my Kawasaki at the moment and short of really smashing it into a hard corner, it never breaks. As an ex golf course green keeper I feel your pain, it is a real PITA!
Cheers, Do you have any links for places to buy them or specific brand recommendations?