Time to buy a weed trimmer, help!!

[QRTRHRS]

Ryobi four stroke, blah!

I had one and hated it. Might have been okay for the average homeowner but around serious trimming, forget it. Not enough power! Hard to start. Died whenever. Maybe it wasn't tuned right, I dunno. Even if it did run right, the balance was pathetic. Let go and it flopped like a fish. Went back to Stihl.

 

[KKaiser]

I've had a Stihl FS91 trimmer for fifteen years and it has performed flawlessly. It gets used about five tankfuls a year, all in a two week period and then ignored like a redheaded stepchild for the next fifty weeks. As long as I drain the fuel before storage, it fires right up the next year and accepts all the WOT abuse I can heap on it. Good product.



Kent

 

[frankram]

I don't understand that after 15 years of good service with a ECHO you would buy a STHIL, my ECHO died after 19 years of hard use, bought a ECHO 2300 Love it.

 

[Steve M]

I was just about to give up on our ten year old Homelite from Home Depot. I took the carb apart thinking it was at fault for the low power. Finally I decided to take the muffler off and look in the back end. The muff came off in two pieces. In the middle was a screen that was all clogged. I pitched the screen and drilled some bigger holes in the baffle and put it back on. It's an animal!

It has more power than it did when it was new! I can't wait to trim the yard now! It sounds like a dirt bike but cuts grass like it's posessed!Oo.

 

[maint.man]

Steve , same trimmer , same problem , different answer .

My father in law has one and it decided not to run , so I checked the muffler first (got one of my own)and found that a mud dobber had built a mud ball in the exhaust hole , Stupid mud dobber

 

[Fireman Dave]

Originally posted by Mike Ellis

the last one (McCulloch grooooaaann) dying an ugly death wrapped around the basketball goal post after I cranked the miserable POS one time too many in 100 degree heat. Yeah I know, temper fits are stupid but GOOD LORD HAVE MERCY it felt good to take my vengeance on that rotten pile of junk. (Sadly the wife came outside and caught me slamming the remnants with an empty 55-gal drum like Donkey Kong, I was in the doghouse for a while over that one).

LOL! Oh man - I wish I could have seen that! :-laf

 

[Koa Man]

Originally posted by Steve M

... . I decided to take the muffler off and look in the back end. The muff came off in two pieces. In the middle was a screen that was all clogged. I pitched the screen and drilled some bigger holes in the baffle and put it back on. It's an animal!

The first thing I do when I buy any 2 cycle equipment like chain saws, blowers, line trimmers, hedge trimmers etc. , is throw away the spark arrester screen. I think that is only required for Federal forest areas, which I don't work at.

 

[Skydiver]

The ECHO 2300 is the best unit for the money. Just don't leave gas in it over the winter.

Did weed-eater or poulan ever get thier carb. problems corrected?

Tim

 

[illflem]

I prefer a backpack sprayer full of my favorite herbicide, no rope to pull and lasts longer than wacking.

 

[Koa Man]

Originally posted by illflem

I prefer a backpack sprayer full of my favorite herbicide, no rope to pull and lasts longer than wacking.

That is how I maintain my back yard. I use a Solo sprayer for that with Round Up Pro 2 oz. per gal.

 

[Champane Flight]

Muccccccccculogh

I have a Mc coulagh, I bought it ten years ago. It still runs good. You have to retune the carb for each tankful of fuel, keep the screwdriver in my back pocket. It is a pain, but I only paid fifty bucks for it.

 

[WOWZY]

I too control most of my weed trimming jobs with Round-up.



I decided to use Spectracide weed and grass killer last week to see if it worked as good as Round-Up and because it was a little cheaper.

In less than 24hrs it killed all the weeds that I sprayed it on, but unlike Round-Up I had to mix up twice as much because alot of spots were missed which didn't save me any money at all. I'll stick with Round-Up for my spraying jobs because even if it takes a few days longer to kill, I don't ever have to go back a second time for missed spots. I guess it kills a wider area than just the spot sprayed.



My hardest weeds to kill are the dreaded wild onions. Even with Round-Up it just seems to burn the tops off of them and they come back in a couple of weeks.

 

[illflem]

At the Ag research station where I work we've been doing experiments using Roundup at extremely low rates for chemical mowing. The mix isn't strong enough to kill but just stunts the grass, it stays green. So far it looks like one cheap spray will take the place of five mowings. Problem is you must have a well calibrated sprayer pulled at a constant speed so you don't under/overdose.



KoaMan, have you tried Gallery herbicide? Sort of new. It won't kill live plants but keeps most all weed seeds from germinating for 9 months. Works great in flower beds and goes a long way, 1 teaspoon of material treats 1000 sq/ft.

 

[snake]

Echo and Shindawa

I have two echo, ones about 13 years old still runs good lots of power. Use a . 95 nylon line. Never had any problem with it. It take me about 3 to 3 1/2 hours to weed eat. The new one about year and half old, some lady had it, I ask her one day do you use that new echo, well she said I don't how to use it. { never been used }. I got a book price on it came with attachment. { over $400. 00 } offer her $200. 00 for it.

The shindaw I use for cutting large brush using a brush blade. The shindaw a great thinner.