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I thought you were supposed to be packing?
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You’re just trying to send him packing…
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Without knowing the model, it sounds very much like my Makita hedge trimmer. Can’t fault it👍. I got mine from clickoutil.com fairly big discount but took a few weeks for delivery
Yes Mark it sounds like the same one from Clickoutil at about €130 so thanks for that info
Taille-haie 18V 60cm DUH607Z MAKITA
I have a Makita 18v strimmer which is fine for trimming the lawn edges and around the trees but no good for briers. I can’t do a comparison as I’ve always used hand shears but my OH is complaining I’m too slow especially as all the hedges we planted three years ago will soon be in desperate need of a trim
Exactly the same. I got an 18v makita strimmer, only got about 50 m of verge to do 3 or 4 times a year. With the exception of my chainsaws, I left all my thermique garden tools behind when we moved.
Makita are a reputable brand but personally I try and buy Bosch garden tools where possible - a lot of them use the same "Power4All"18V battery which is handy. I think some other brands also share that battery fitting.
I have a Bosch battery mower and also their lawn aerator/demosser thingy, plus drill and mini chainsaw - very happy with them.
New 36v Einhell strimmer performed very well on rough stuff. Trimmed the bush with ease as well
Mine’s a Ryobi - in fact, I actually have 3 Ryobi hedge trimmers, 2 in France and one in Ireland, and one of them is a smaller and punier model. I’m actually pretty satisfied with them. They all use the Ryobi 1+ battery system, which is an 18V Li ion rechargeable battery, where the batteries come in different power outputs (2 Ah, 3 Ah, 4.5 Ah, and possibly also 5 Ah?) - the lower Ah supplies don’t last very long for intensive work, and are only really any good for wispy or very thin strands of hedging, and I generally tend to use the 4.5 Ah batteries, especially where the hedges I’m cutting are more resistant - e.g. thicker stemmed beech and birch hedging, or particularly oily, e.g. laurel.
That spec sounds on paper to be quite good, although I’m not sure what kind of thicknesses they’d be rating an hours worth of battery life on.
Thanks @RicePudding that’s useful information. All our hedges are newly planted and into there fourth season. I won’t be cutting back into old wood so I don’t foresee any problems