10-23-2016, 04:20 AM
I bought one at Del's and hated it. There was nothing wrong with the trimmer, it just wasn't a good match for our terrain. I wound up selling it on Craigslist. If you want one, wait for a sale, they have them $100 off several times a year. That way when you decide you hate it and sell it for what you paid for it, it will be $100 cheaper than what's in the store for whoever is buying it and you'll get all your money back. Win-win.
Basically I hated it because it was impossible to maneuver over rocks. It worked great on flat terrain but that's what the lawn mower is for. If you want to run a test, load up a wheelbarrow and try to maneuver it in the area you want to use the trimmer. If you have to struggle to do it, then the string trimmer might not be a good match.
Also the string is really thick but for some reason doesn't last as long as I would have thought (probably from whipping the lava rocks I was struggling to maneuver over). The unit came with 4 pieces of 'starter string' and oddly, Del's doesn't sell the string. I had to buy a roll of it at HD and cut pieces to length. They were out of the cheap string and the only one they had in stock was over $30.
They can also launch some fairly big rocks with a lot of force. I couldn't use it near the house for fear I'd break a window.
Like Mark I'm using the mower on high and making lawn that way. I do hit a lot of rocks and I'm sure it's taking years off the mower's life but they don't seem to last long nowadays anyway.
Basically I hated it because it was impossible to maneuver over rocks. It worked great on flat terrain but that's what the lawn mower is for. If you want to run a test, load up a wheelbarrow and try to maneuver it in the area you want to use the trimmer. If you have to struggle to do it, then the string trimmer might not be a good match.
Also the string is really thick but for some reason doesn't last as long as I would have thought (probably from whipping the lava rocks I was struggling to maneuver over). The unit came with 4 pieces of 'starter string' and oddly, Del's doesn't sell the string. I had to buy a roll of it at HD and cut pieces to length. They were out of the cheap string and the only one they had in stock was over $30.
They can also launch some fairly big rocks with a lot of force. I couldn't use it near the house for fear I'd break a window.
Like Mark I'm using the mower on high and making lawn that way. I do hit a lot of rocks and I'm sure it's taking years off the mower's life but they don't seem to last long nowadays anyway.